WELCOME TO THE   

1^st Annual Southern Cal's

Crash & Bash

Where:    Calico Ghost Town….10 miles out of Barstow, CA.

When:    April 6^th through April 9, 2006

 This event is open to all members and Jeepster friends, and we encourage you, to bring your Jeeping buddies along for the fun. Hey we need to pick on vehicles beside our own.

Calico Campground Information and reservations:

With a lot of persuasion, we have obtained, reserved, a block of 20 dry camp sites for our event. These are sites 77 through 96 in campground “2”. From what I was told, site 77 has a tree and is a little larger then the rest and if it’s ok with you, lets use it as a “main site”…may be RRich can reserve it. Party at site 77!!! If Rich gets out of hand, we can tie him to the tree, LOL

All sites have fire pits and the restrooms and showers are near by.

PEOPLE coming in with RVs need to make reservations ASAP!, for campground “2”. These are full hook up sites but they're not included in the reserved dry camp sites…sorry, I was not able to acquire full hook up sites.

Here is the URL for the campground map: http://www.calicotown.com/campsites/2/

If you want to make reservations, here’s the scoop:

Call 1-760-254-2122
Say you need to make reservations for campground “2” and that you are with the American Jeepster Club and sites 77– 96 have been reserved for American Jeepster Club members and guests. If need be, ask for DEBBIE.

Price is $18.00 for the first night, up to 6 people per site, and than $3.00 per person for additional nights.

                   If you want to camp within the reserved block,
       YOU MUST MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS BY FEBRUARY 13th!

Calico Ghost Town
P.O. Box 638
Yermo, CA. 92398
For Reservations Call
1-760-254-2122
1-800-TO-CALICO
Fax: 1-760-254-2047
Map & Weather Info

“OR”

 Calico Ghost Town Information:    http://www.calicotown.com/index.php

 OHV Information:                           http://www.calicotown.com/ohv/

 Campgrounds:                               http://www.calicotown.com/campsites/1  

                                                       http://www.calicotown.com/campsites/2

 Below is a list of hotels for those who wish to hotel it, plus a KOA

Holiday Inn Express - BARSTOW
2700 LENWOOD ROAD
BARSTOW, CA 92311
UNITED STATES

1-888-HOLIDAY (888-465-4329)

Hotel Front Desk:1-760-2539200

Hotel Fax:1-760-2539201

The Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Barstow is located at Interstate 15 and Lenwood Road; we are adjacent to over 100 Outlet Stores at the Tanger Outlet Center and Factory Merchants Barstow. The National Training Center/Ft. Irwin and the USMC Logistics Base are nearby or enjoy our area attractions such as Calico Ghost Town, Goldstone Deep Space Tracking Station, Route 66 Museum, Mojave River Museum or the Western Railroad Museum.

EVENT AGENDA:

Thursday arrival:

For those who can arrive Thursday afternoon, March 30^th, go to campground office and then proceed to campground “2”. Find your spot, set up camp, than go “check in” with the club.

Friday arrival:

Those coming in Friday go to campground office and then proceed to campground “2”. Find your spot, set up camp, than go “check in” with the club.

NOTE: Everyone might be out on the trails Friday till mid-afternoon, if so, go check out the town. relax, hit the saloon?

Trail Agenda:

We plan to do runs on both Friday and Saturday.  OR???   We are flexible on the runs.

Trail Departure time will be 9:30 a.m.

Sunday is do what we want day. Jeeping, relaxing, explore the ghost town, ETC.

Since the club does not want to over-look fellow Jeepster or Commando members or friends, Please feel free to invite your Jeeping friends to this fun event. The more the better!

RRICH has this to say about Calico:

Calico area has lots of trails as I remember. From "easy" to "rough" to difficult - even to "I wonder if he lived?" The tough parts have ways around, not always a short bypass, sometimes a loop. You can make it as hard as you want. As I remember there's always several ways to an area - easy and hard. After all, both hard core crawlers and Hummers play here. If a Hummer can make it, your Ford Fiesta can too.

4 Wheel Drive Magazine just had an article on the Calico area - Feb 2006 issue. You can see some of the rougher spots.

Tom's first pic I think that's at the beginning of Odessa? Looks like a step up where a friend tried - we had to secure him with a winch 1/2 way up to do a Hi-Lift Handle repair on his tie rod. He bent it like a pretzel.

How 'bout an easy(er) run the first day, get back mid afternoon, then a walk through the ghost town? The women love it.
That night around the campfire lies, tall tales, bragging about how good our rigs are.
Next day a good run - so the braggars can prove it - or bust.
If we have too many rigs we can break the runs up - 8 to 12 is a good group. "Easy" and "I wanna break something."


Peggy Sue's is just down the road - a 50's roadside cafe theme - food's not bad.


For those that want to stay a few days longer - about 40 miles farther out is Afton Canyon - a very pretty place.
Death Valley is not all that far away either.
And of course -- Vegas.

Be there!

NOTE: All donation, raffle, and registration monies, if implied, go directly to pay for this event and to promote future events....A expenditure/ financial web page will show all expenses or donations.

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