Winter
Fun 2004 was held on January16th - 18th 2004 in Grass Valley at the Nevada
County Fairgrounds. Just like past years it was a great event,
and everyone had a lot of fun!
As
we have done for quite a few years, Saturday morning, the Santa Rosa 4x4's
made breakfast for everyone... this year around 500 people.
Breakfast
was Potatoes, Eggs, Ham, Biscuits and Gray, and cold cereal.
Again
this year we were thankful that it was not so cold. Some people
worked outside making food....
While
others worked inside serving the food...
Members
of the club went on one of two runs: either the Avalance Express run or
the Historic Tour. We had signed up for the SUV run, but it
was full and we were bumped to the Historic Tour.
The
people on the Avalanche Express run air down and get ready for the run.
It was a similar run to the New
Years Day run a few weeks before.
Art
was having some problems with his front end in the Jeep, and had to be
pulled out a few times...
The
Historic Tour was a very informative run, but was not really a 4x4 run.
We visited a number of covered bridges in the area, including
the one above and to the left, which is the longest covered bridge in
existance.
We
stopped at a number of locations and learned about the history of the
area.
Zack
got his first taste of snow...
The
end of the run was over some fire roads and through some light snow.
On
Sunday, a few people went out to the area where they used to have the
River Bottom Games. This year they canceled the Sunday games
and had some Sunday trail runs instead.
Corey
plays in the river bed.
Saturday
night they had the kids and adult raffle.
A
number of people came out to play.... Everyone had a good time!