Jeep Jamboree Canada Discussion

[specialk]

Sorry Russ... We are a Jeep club, but I think you are trying to get the wrong group involved here.

The last thing I want to see is an influx of rigs in the McLean and Waiparous areas.  What I will do though, is invite you to one of our meetings in the new year.  Come for 6 and find me.  I will introduce to a bunch of the fellow jeepers and they can tell you stories about closures, old jamborees, and the issues facing 4x4 clubs.   And then come wheeling with us.  Get involved.  There are great opportunities to go to events like the old sponsored jamborees to wheel and camp and have a good time with people all over BC, Alberta and Sask.

Hope to see you out there.

[jeepgrl]

The JK is the new Caravan, only squarer! 

Now, now....

[w squared]

He's just jealous that he needs a 6 inch long arm to get the suspension flex that JK's get with a 3 inch lift and stock arms.

[Spinalguy]

i loved jeep jamborees. They used to run one in Bobcaygoen, Ont. i never went as we CONSIDERED THEM 'OUR' TRAILS AND CAMPED THE SAME WEEKEND IN OUR 'NORMAL' SPOT AND WHEELED FOR FREE. bUT I LOVED THEM AS THEY ALLOWED ME TO USE IT AS A WARRANTY ARGUEMENT TO THE TUNE OF $20,000 OVER THE LIFE OF MY NEW tj.
:GRIN:

[BlackYJ]

Speaking from experience of being involved with the past jamborees, it is not just about get sponsorship from Jeep / Chrysler but also getting the permission from the local government (ASRD) to run such an event as they could have all the funding in the world but if the government says no, you are screwed.

I definitely think there were flaws in the last business model for the jamborees and improvements definitely could have been made.  However, I would LOVE it if they came back.  I learned how to wheel my jeep at the jamborees and Jeep 101.  The clubs that ran the Apex and Rocky jamborees did an AMAZING job

[tubby]

  I learned how to wheel my jeep at the jamborees and Jeep 101. 

Is that where you learned how to do that ridiculous " saw the wheel back and forth dance" that you do when you spot somebody up a greasy hillclimb?





























ps. I was tempted to run you over when you first did that to me.

[jeepgrl]

He's just jealous that he needs a 6 inch long arm to get the suspension flex that JK's get with a 3 inch lift and stock arms.

Well put... 

[Russ]

Sorry Russ... We are a Jeep club, but I think you are trying to get the wrong group involved here.

The last thing I want to see is an influx of rigs in the McLean and Waiparous areas.  What I will do though, is invite you to one of our meetings in the new year.  Come for 6 and find me.  I will introduce to a bunch of the fellow jeepers and they can tell you stories about closures, old jamborees, and the issues facing 4x4 clubs.   And then come wheeling with us.  Get involved.  There are great opportunities to go to events like the old sponsored jamborees to wheel and camp and have a good time with people all over BC, Alberta and Sask.

Hope to see you out there.

This is the type of group that would help get it together, and might go as spotters or volunteers, but I know none of us would actually pay all that money.  This is directed more at newbs that won't go to something like this unless it was an actual Chrysler event....Sort of like BMW guys with their track days.

Nobody wants a million people knowing about their "private" trails, but that's the attitude that helps get those trails shut down when there aren't enough users to make a difference in those decisions.

I do plan to try and get to an event of yours if timing works out.  I'm pretty involved with my local club www.bcjeepclub.ca, but like I said in another post my new job will bring me out your way a few times a year so it would be great to meet the Alberta club.