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Another offroad parts company that wants to scold us for using their parts offroad... Unreal! Look into a replacement from BDS - their "no fine print warranty" is the real deal - my after 3-4 years my track bar failed and I called them and they shipped an new one out to Vehicle accessories for me - literally no questions asked... just had to pay shipping of $14.00. 

What Lies Beyond Members have two different trips planned for the second weekend of June! 

A Small group of us are headed out to the Bantam Heritage Jeep Festival in Butler, PA for the weekend. Hitting the Downtown Invasion Friday night, signed up for some trail rides and other fun activities.  Putting in some volunteer shifts to help with the event as well!

Another small group is planning to be up on Drummond Island for the weekend wheeling one day on the ORV routes and another at turtle ridge.  Some of the best off-roading in Michigan is right the on Drummond - it should be a great trip. 

Not a member of WLB, but interested in one of these trips?  Send me a PM for details!

What Lies Beyond members are playing and working in the month of May!  A bunch of us just got back from the Annual Jeep Blessing held by the Cadillac Jeepers up in Mesick.  As always, they continue to enhance their driver course and even some of our most experienced drivers were apparently close to having heart attacks out on Chadville!  Great time had by all!

Our second trip in May is our first Trail Maintenance trip up in Atlanta, MI The weekend of May 19-21.  WLB does the grant work for GLFWDA on the Atlanta Route.  While we are out on the trails for the weekend, we are working - clearing fallen trees, cutting back brush, and maintaining the signage standards along the 70+ miles of ORV route in the area.  Of Course, we don't forget that Saturday the 20th is All Things Jeep's Designated "Go Topless Day" and once we are done our work for the day, the club is buying food for a cook-out back at camp at Clear Lake State Park.   Club members can see more details posted in the member forums, anyone else interested in joining us can PM me for info!

At the Great Lakes Four Wheel Drive association Quarterly meeting they announced a new Land Use Committee Chairperson, Mike Wade.  Mike spoke about needing a true committee to help address land use issues throughout the state.  He is looking for volunteers that may have some free time to occasionally attend ORV Meetings and Public Hearings throughout the state.  He does not expect a huge open ended commitment to go all over the state all the time, but is hoping to find numerous people that might be able to cover a specific area and even if you could only get to one or two things per year it would be helpful.

You do not need to be a land use expert to volunteer - You are a member of our user group and can attend these public meetings to take notes and report back to the Land Use committee o what is being discussed and you can certainly offer your feedback as a member of the full size OHV community.  If you might have some interest/availability.  PM me and I will get you in touch with Mr. Wade or you can email directly to landuse@glfwda.org.

I need to Re-Cert first aid/CPR as well.  I looked into doing our own class a year or two back and it was pretty expensive... But we could explore it again if there is enough interest.  I was talking to someone last night about the 4WD training class - we do have a lot of fairly new folks in the club and it might be high time we offered the class again.  I would be willing to instruct with you again, assuming we get the CPR/First Aid recert done!

I have a coffee can full of it that I will try to bring Sunday if you want to demo... try to remind me!

The Meeting will be held Saturday April 29th near port Huron at The Dorsey House Restaurant (6008 Beard Rd, Clyde, Michigan 48049) Meeting will be held at Noon and you can order off the menu if you want to have your lunch there during the meeting.  After the meeting, they have organized a scenic drive which is going to end at the base of the BlueWater Bridge for a Photo OP and there is a chance to tour a retired US Coast Guard Cutter for a small Charge.

Since this meeting is within an hour for many of us, we highly encourage club members to participate!  Sounds like a fun afternoon planned. 

looks really cool.  Can't wait to hear about the work you were doing, and about EJS!!

Holy crap, that is insane... could have been lots worse I guess... glad everyone was alright!

Generally our events are open to invited guests.  They do need to have recovery points Front & Rear to be out with the club and we do recommend they have a CB radio...

Jeep is Home fine and I am contemplating my options on those front shafts... seems the u-joint probably gave up the ghost and then the ears blew themselves apart... not sure, but maybe RCV's are in my future??

I will be there on Thursday.... 6:00 - 1:00 and will bring some great Pastry from the Almont bakery.

The club was going to purchase donuts, etc. so that members would be in a better position to donate to the Foodbank.  If you want to substitute canned goods or cash for the foodbank that would be awesome.  Of course, if you want make a donation plus bring the pastry, that would also be welcome.  Coordinate with Wendy, I think she is buying the donuts. 

I will be there Wednesday night.

See change of time to 3:330 If possible out by 5-ish.  Does that still work for you?

Assuming nothing crazy comes up on Wednesday, I can probably be there by 4:00 as well. 

You can send a PM to our webmaster, TechJeeper... I'm sure he can give you some insight into the website.