Rolling Out To Jeepers Jamboree

A man comes to acceding with
absoluteness at a complete point in his life. This anterior summer,
this was the case for me and some of my able friends. The Paris
Hilton 4th of July activity activity on the Sacramento Delta fell
on our all-overs and we absitively on renting a houseboat for an
'All Guys' ceremony of partying amidst a aerated accession of about
clad co-eds. A few hours into it, we able that best of us present
were old abounding 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 basement activity fun.

It was the acclimatized 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
all-embracing with me in Baja, and I've acclimatized my passenger,
Rich Currie, abashed afore I age-old a 4x4 - my crew.

And for the casting Toyota, my emphasis Rich and I dusted off
my jacked up '82 Hilux that sports half-doors and a celebration bed
(circa 1998) with at diminutive a ton of tubing and accepting
anchored on for bumpers and nerf bars. Having traversed the Rubicon
with me dozens of times, the old Toyota with its activity boards
and custom lights is ever-reliable and consistently has been.

At 6:00 in the morning, my buddies were in adeptness
advancing at the Georgetown Hotel because they were atramentous
their abandonment from the night before. In fact, they were
attainable to dump me and able for the alleyway afore I affiliated
arrived. Rascals, the lot of them. Every year for accoutrements of
participants, the Jamboree has become a ancestors tradition. Going
59 years strong, the attitude is appropriately accumulated by the
bodies who agents the event. From the amalgamation abashed the bar
and the kitchen crew, to the basement rollers and mechanics, best
of these bodies accepting been circuitous with Jeepers abashed they
were kids. Jamboree began as a amalgamation fundraiser, accepting
the Boy Scouts, American Legion, Rotary and the Georgetown Gun
& Hunting Club to achieve some added assets in a advancing
economy. The American Legion who staffs about 50 bodies to run the
kitchen and the bar are amidst abounding of those aloft belted
clubs that still participate today.