Calendar and Meeting Schedule
If you'd like to add an area event to the calendar, please email our Webmaster. FWD-FWD runs are always being planned. If you have a suggestion for a destination or activity please contact our Run Chairman.
Club meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month (please see our Meeting Schedule below) and a group of us typically hits the trail at least once a month.
May
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May 3-4 - Clayton Trail Clean up and GPS Training Class - Clayton, OK - We have moved this from April to May due to scheduling conflcits. Come join us in Clayton as we do some trail cleaup in preparation for our 2008 FWD-FWD Memorial Day High Country Trial Ride. We will also be doing a basic GPS 101 course.
May 13 - FWD-FWD Business Meeting - 7:30 pm pm at Baertrax at 2347 Merrell Road, Suite 201, Dallas, TX 75229 (972)406-9363. Baertrax is a shop, owned by Russ and Christy Baer, that caters to the off-road community. They offer gear changes, custom fabrication, etc. So if you need work done on your rig, don't hesitate to give them a call, they would love to hear from you. For directions go to www.baertrax.com and go to the link titled "Map".
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May 23-26 - 16th Annual FWD-FWD Memorial Day High Country Trail Ride - Clayton, OK -This marks the 16th year that FWD-FWD has provided a great event over the holiday weekend. As always, a lot of people have been working hard to insure that this year's will be as fun and exciting as the last fifteen. We will also be hosting the 2008 SWFWDA Spring Quarterly on the morning of May 24th before we head out on our runs for the day. We will be having a quick Business Meeting on Sunday morning @ 9am to give a people a chance to join FWD-FWD. For those that choose to take part, we will also be having a M.O.R.E class for beginning wheelers who want to learn the basics of safety on the trail and to deal with a rollover. So come on out and attend the meeting and let your voice be heard on land issues and learn how we can keep public lands open. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your machine to download the packet; please click here for a free download. ***DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION PACKET HERE***
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, May 23rd
11:00 am Registration and Tech Inspection Opens, Trail Sign-up Sheets Posted
1:00 pm Registration and Tech Inspection Closes, Half-day Trail Rides Depart from the Rodeo Grounds
5:00 pm Registration and Tech Inspection Re-opens
7:00 pm Registration and Tech Inspection Closes
7:30 pm Ice Cream Social at Rodeo Grounds
Saturday, May 24th
6:30 am Breakfast served at Rodeo Grounds ($6.00) - menu next page
7:00 am Registration and Tech Inspection Opens, Trail Sign-up Sheets Posted, SWFWDA Summerly Quarterly Meeting will take place
8:55 am Registration and Tech Inspection Closes
9:00 am Depart Rodeo grounds for parade and then leave for full-day of trail rides
6:00 pm Catered Dinner Available at the Rodeo Grounds
7:00 pm Kid’s Only Raffle Begins (for children ages 2-12)
7:30 pm “Let’s Make a Deal” Raffle Begins
Sunday, May 25th
8:00 am Registration and Tech Inspection Opens, Trail Sign-up Sheets Posted, FWD-FWD Business Meeting will hold a short meeting for those that want to join FWD-FWD
9:00 am M.O.R.E class will be held for beginning wheelers that want to take part.
9:30 am Full-day Trail Rides Depart from Rodeo Grounds, Registration and Tech Inspection Closes
Monday, May 26th***
Impromptu runs will take place.
*** If you will be trail riding on Monday, you will be required by the property owners of any of the areas in Clayton to pay the normal daily use fees per vehicle for admittance to the area. FWD-FWD will not be covering the costs to be on any land for any trail rides on Monday, May 26th.
We look forward to seeing you at this year's event.
May 27 - FWD-FWD Social Meeting - 7:30 pm, location TBD
October
October 10-12 - FWD-FWD October Trailfest - Clayton, OK - More information to come.
October 14 - FWD-FWD Business Meeting - 7:30 pm pm at Baertrax at 2347 Merrell Road, Suite 201, Dallas, TX 75229 (972)406-9363. Baertrax is a shop, owned by Russ and Christy Baer, that caters to the off-road community. They offer gear changes, custom fabrication, etc. So if you need work done on your rig, don't hesitate to give them a call, they would love to hear from you. For directions go to www.baertrax.com and go to the link titled "Map".
October 28 - FWD-FWD Social Meeting - 7:30 pm, location TBD
If you have any questions please contact Chris "Tulip" Revill at president@fwd-fwd.org or Troy Rankin at vicepresident@fwd-fwd.org .
