Rolling Out To Jeepers Jamboree

A man comes to agreement with absoluteness at a assertive point in his life.  This antecedent summer, this was the case for me and some of my acceptable friends. The Paris Hilton 4th of July fleet affair on the Sacramento Delta fell on our alarm and we absitively on renting a houseboat for an ‘All Guys’ anniversary of partying amid a aerated accumulation of almost clad co-eds. A few hours into it, we accomplished that best of us present were old abundant to be the fathers of the flotilla’s patrons.  We came to our senses, and formed out to the Jeepers Jamboree. It was settled: a four-day, all-boys weekend at the 59th Jeepers Jamboree for bedrock active fun.

It was the accepted suspects from my club, the Sierra Treasure Hunters: Steve ‘Medfly’ Medley and ‘Bronco’ Matt in Jeep Rubicons, Kevin Kidwell and Troy Holmes in Kevin’s custom YJ, and Will Corbett and his son Wade in a home-built Jeep CJ-7 with custom running boards and nerf bars. Between the mix, we’d spent hundreds of weekends swapping lies about campfires in several states, best of the guys had catholic with me in Baja, and I’ve accepted my passenger, Rich Currie, back afore I endemic a 4x4 - my crew.

And for the badge Toyota, my associate Rich and I dusted off my jacked up ‘82 Hilux that sports half-doors and a account bed (circa 1998) with at atomic a ton of tubing and approach anchored on for bumpers and nerf bars. Having traversed the Rubicon with me dozens of times, the old Toyota with its active boards and custom lights is ever-reliable and consistently has been.

At 6:00 in the morning, my buddies were decidedly aggressive at the Georgetown Hotel because they were black their abandonment from the night before. In fact, they were accessible to dump me and arch for the aisle afore I alike arrived. Rascals, the lot of them. Every year for bags of participants, the Jamboree has become a ancestors tradition. Going 59 years strong, the attitude is appropriately aggregate by the bodies who agents the event. From the association abaft the bar and the kitchen crew, to the bedrock rollers and mechanics, best of these bodies accept been complex with Jeepers back they were kids. Jamboree began as a association fundraiser, acceptance the Boy Scouts, American Legion, Rotary and the Georgetown Gun & Hunting Club to accomplish some added assets in a disturbing economy. The American Legion who staffs about 50 bodies to run the kitchen and the bar are amid abounding of those aforementioned bounded clubs that still participate today.