Meeting Minutes     June 5, 2003 Meeting called to order at 7:33 p.m. by Richard Yeargan. Members Present: Richard & Gigi Yeargan Mike & Tami Stoller Dave Langelier Carol & Larry Whitehead Del Albright, Judy Timm and Mike Dean Dark Mark Stoller Ron DeLaney Wes & Barbara Cross Carol & Gary Pearson Carol & Gareth Hilborn Charlie & Jerry Thompson Guests: None. President’s Report: Reno on Mother’s day. Bent tie rod on Scout at Virginia City. Local paper Upcountry News, Megan won honor for essay contest last year. Dave should be proud. Karen was in paper also. Bought a new Scout, old yeller, got rid of Luv and selling Cherokee, someone wants Scout. Vice President’s Report: None Treasurer’s Report: Scott paid this and next year’s dues. $972.72 in account. Owe Richard for tri-tips. $45.97. Move by Dean and 2nd Mark to pay Richard $46.00. Need to collect CA4WD dues. Mike sent the email to remind people. Del, Tim, Rich/Pegi, Charlie/Jerry, Mark are due. Can’t maintain balance over $1000. Secretary’s Report: None because don’t have notes, they are on the website. Membership Chair’s Report: No new members. Closest Don/Nancy and Anthony are close to being voted on. Ron handed out club roster and will mail to those who aren’t here. Delegates report: Haven’t done any since January. Conservation/Land Use Report (Del): Rubicon. 3 work parties (3 days, this weekend, next weekend) Emergency repair on bottom of Walker Hill. Huge mud hole. There is still snow there. Runoff into road is trashing the trail. Need to fill with rocks like we did last year because everyone is bypassing. FOTR will be there. 6/12 have survey crew placing monuments and surveying trail. 6/19 politicos and others to pick spot for little Sluice bypass. Is picked, will have to do that project for next year. This is a big deal since on private property/USFS road. Legitimize and add concrete to reduce roll overs. Setting precedent for getting things done. Was a guy up there caught with pry bar prying rocks loose into Little Sluice. Trail patrol is working well. This will be vandalism and federal crime. He drinks & drives so they will dog him until caught. Brought BRC U4WD Magazines for people. New sponsor for BRC. ORBA Off Road Business Assn. Only off-road businesses, it’s a trade assn. CA4WD meeting next year in Reno. Would like some of us make it next year. Budget should be in order. BRC sent letter thanking them for the El Dorado Canyon tour. In June’s edition and we got good press. Board had a good time. Del to go to Flagstaff. Correspondence: Stanislaus Nat’l Forest info for Del. United Voice, June In Gear, Kate Olsen for minutes for last meeting. July meeting in Sacramento for North District. Public workshop on 6/14. Richard has flyer if anyone is interested. Old Business: T-Shirts-Mike Hats-Ron Destruction Derby-Buddy New Business: Guest speaker-Anthony Botello-Recreation Staff Officer/Amador Ranger District Adopt-a-Trail kiosk project. Contact for our Adopt-a-trail. Appreciate any help we can give. Were up there yesterday and today. Gates still closed due to too much snow. Couldn’t drive to gate at bottom of Squaw Ridge. Want to know when we want to try to get in and get help with signage. Built 2 panel kiosks. One side is a big map of open and designated route and other side for info, behind Plexiglas. Mainly for OHV so people can know where they can be. Place barriers to non-designated areas. Want to try to get as far as Blue Lakes. Designate staging areas in bear River area. Didn’t bring plans tonight. 12’ posts, 8’ high, each panel is 4’ wide. Want to look for locations to place them. Road with gate past cattle guard or right at the gate. Prefer a place where can stop and stage. Other at Tragedy Springs near the cabins. Think property line is at drift fence. Materials can be provided if necessary. Per sign is ~$250.00 with the Plexiglas. Give credit to club for doing it, even if build and don’t pay for materials. Recognition on the kiosks. Richard says trying for 7/4 if not too wet. Will provide signed to put on blocked areas. Richard would like the signs to put on bypasses to let people know to stay on trail. They are trying to get standardized signage “Stay on Designated Routes”. They have a small bulldozer to rip bypasses, rip, straw mulch and this keeps people off. They can try to scheduled on our work day if we have enough advanced day. Richard-need to get in to survey area. Today couldn’t get w/I mile of the gate. 7/4 might be doable though. Will get kiosk plans. Can email digital photos. Richard-we can get started on the kiosk. Would love to have same trail support as Rubicon. Mike-should have contact numbers to call and report bad behavior on kiosk. Have a shared LEO presently, but should be filled this year. Amador Officer retired and share with Placerville. General patrol OHV manager and 2 temps. Concentrating right now on lower areas. Will switch to bear River until Blue Lakes opens up. Spread thin, but have citation ability. Focus on info and education, law enforcement when necessary. Focus on 90% that want to do things right. Email: Website for OHV from main El Dorado website. Blue Lakes access may be limited at times due to construction. College students will be doing GPS of all of the routes this year and will do Blue Lakes next year. Once inventory done will have a map for us. Gold Note area is done and should be available on the website soon. May be able to get kiosks in even if we can’t get the trail work done on 7/4. hosting another Adventure Race this yr. 24 hrs and will go along Squaw Ridge. Bikes and running over top to Kirkwood. Like the EcoChallenge. Didn’t put in for OHV grant so won’t get any funding this summer. Did put in for 04 SS and would appreciate support at Commission hearings. Del-tell us what you want to say in the letters. Need help to get other users to come forward, horses, bikes, etc.-anything for multiple uses like cross country skiing on snowmobile trails. Richard-keep us posted on when you need letters. Strawberry Trail-voted to adopt last meeting. Richard contacted someone for paperwork. Richard will pursue. Need lots of brush work. Maint. Station over to 50. Set dates for future runs. Past Runs: Ione Homecoming-Trina-had 19 rigs with 9 signed up. Rained a bit, but a good turn out and had a good picnic after. Trina wrote a good script. Try to find script (if dog didn’t eat it) to use at Demolition Derby. Memorial Day Weekend-Virginia City- Had a good time. Camped on windy point. Good camping. Saturday am ran El Dorado canyon. 10 rigs with a few add ons. They were on way to meet people, but went with us. Guests were the only ones with breakage. Pot Luck on Saturday was good. Sunday split up. Richard, mark, Larry and Trina went to Bronco Canyon. Left by 8:00 a.m. Back to camp by 2:00 p.m. after fixing Richard’s broken tie rod. Mike took the SUV run. Gary, Warren, Scott and Mike went to Brunswick canyon. Sight seeing of Wild Flowers, wild horses, mine sites, and area near the Carson River. Friday Richard, Gary and Larry went to Petroglyph's. Showed a few others that came from Steam Shovel Trail and pointed them to Bronco Canyon. Visited cemetery and did the ceremony there at the cemetery. Fixed inside dual tire on Gary’s RV on the way home. Thanks to Mike and Mark for help in getting the tire fixed since tow truck driver didn’t have tool. Ron reported on their trip to the Winnemucca dunes. Is a secret. About 40 miles of dunes. 8 families was the largest group the ranger had seen there. Other ranger reported that there were 10,000 people at San Mountain. Took Ron 6 hrs/10 minutes to get there up I-80. Stuff to go see and a few jeep trails. Quad riding, steep hills, bowls. Friday was hot, some wind, a small storm blew through. 8 miles out of Winnemucca so went ot the Model T Casino for the dinner specials 2 eat for $8.00. There is a big RV park there, and no one there over Memorial Day weekend. Future runs: June 14-Airport Flat- Cancelled-after Del’s report we won’t be able to hit the trails we wanted to. Ron called Placerville office. Road open, but trail use not advisable. Could camp, but little else. Del-can do slabs and gatekeeper, but not McKinistry Lake area. Either cancel or reschedule or do something else. June 15 or ASAP Pardoe evaluation- Richard will keep membership informed. July 4,5,6 Adopt-a-trail media event- Will still do. Round Valley also? Do it earlier. Mike can contact them and we might be able to get in there because it is more exposed. July 19-Niagara Rim- Cancelled, Poker Run scheduled same weekend. No problem getting on trail but camping will be a problem. Richard recommend changing location or weekend. Girlie Creek? Dusy is cancelled due to lack of interest. Schedule Airport Flat for 7/19. 7/26+27 Destruction Derby-perhaps have a booth behind. Buddy has no new information. Dillon Beach-8/2-3. Leave jeeps at home. Sierra Trek 8/8+9 Trina’s Tour-8/23-TBA Will do whirlwind tour through Moab and Santa Fe. 9/13 Ken’s BBQ 8/30-9/1 Hope Valley (Labor Day Weekend)-Gareth to try to get Benny’s again. 9/20 Trip all the way through the Rubicon to include tent camping. Stay Fri night by Loon Lake. Close Adopt-a-trail-in October. Keep one weekend open. Apple Hill Ron’s garage sale-10/4+5-club fund raiser. Doran Beach-New Year’s Week. 12/28-1/4/04 Need to reserve sites now. 37-47 in Gull Campground Loop. Mike slide show of his Virginia City run earlier this week with Buddy. Meeting adjourned at 9:10 p.m. Tami Stoller