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For those who can't view the picture the dates are January 24-25th, 2014

Replying to this thread will not guarantee you a spot. You must mail a registration form postmarked no sooner than November 1st, 2013

Entries will be placed into a raffle style selection process based on postmark date. Last year we received over 80 entries on November 1st.

SnoFari is a family oriented Winter trail-ride that takes place on state land in and around the West Branch, Mi area. It is open to all makes and models of licensed four-wheel drive vehicles. We host a banquet dinner on Saturday night and give away TONS of awesome prizes during the raffle. The event is sanctioned by the Great Lakes Four Wheel Drive Association.

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM

And here we go, in absolutely no particular order:

1. Becky Lewis
2. Steve Smith
3. Jamie Bachman
4. Pat Beldock
5. Mark & Paula Saxton
6. Justin Wade
7. John Cutcher
8. Paul Smith
9. Corey Emens
10. Ken Johnson
11. Jim Valleau
12. Michael Branch
13. Nick Rudolph
14. Mark Collier
15. Tom Parks
16. Dennis Patow
17. James Robbins
18. John Ramos
19. Brian Trempe
20. Mike Miller
21. Robin Richert
22. Jeremy Richert
23. Jim Frisch
24. Curtis Hargitt
25. Pam East
26. Dave Lindberg
27. Randy Doctor
28. Travis Pike
29. Jerry Bryant
30. Justin Mundy
31. Bill Hein
32. Ryan Gogolen
33. John Sliwinksi
34. Gary Greenway
35. John Curtiss
36. Devon Eyerman
37. Kevin Banister
38. Brian Banister
39. Jason Elrod
40. Daniel Jaros
41. Winston Elrod
42. Jeff Rimisek
43. Andrew Ottjepka
44. Rob Parks
45. Brent Zook
46. Joe Zvonek
47. Jacob Meganck
48. Michael Wade
49. Dan & Martha Wiseheart
50. Joe Ramm
51. Tom Ramm
52. Paul Burleigh
53. Thomas Ramm
54. Eric Jennings
55. Josh Griffin
56. Christina Mathis
57. Chad Mathis
58. Keith Kodet
59. Ron & Jan Alexander
60. Brian Nowitzke
61. Brandon Zanski
62. Jason Zanski
63. Peter Leggio
64. Heather Armstrong
65. Jerome Cox



Please PM me if you have any questions.
 
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#1,425 ·
My trip home was a little slow. South of Bridgeport I-75 became a skating rink. I witnessed 5 different spin outs that ranged from soiled seats to a Suburban smacking the center wall hard enough he bounced back into the center lane. I took my time & had no issues.

Thanks to James of CTOR for the beer.
Thanks to all those that stuck around this morning to meet with Jon.
 
#1,426 ·
I did 50-55 all the way home. I had a 4 runner doing 70+ try to cut me off to go around someone else and proceeded to spin 3+ times right in front of me. He missed me by only a couple feet. Luckily it was a small open pocket and I was able to use all 3 lanes to avoid him. With 6,000lbs behind me that was scary.
 
#1,461 · (Edited)
Please fill out a GLFWDA Tailgate Report. It only takes a couple minutes to help GLFWDA keep our trails open.

http://www.glfwda.org/content.php?40-tailgate-report

I owe Renegade and Danimal a beer for recovering my #5000 of dead weight. Great work guys Thanks again.

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I'll take Dan's beer! His winch, correction, my winch on his truck was slack the whole time :teehee:

I'm glad that I didn't break my Jeep in half pulling you and Dan up. That PTO doesn't know when to say when :sonicjay:

:thumb:Also, I'd like to say a big thanks to the guys for the fire at the rocks. That was the absolute perfect lunch stop for my group in that nasty weather!:thumb:
 
#1,430 ·
I had a great time. It was two great days for playing in the woods. Airing down Friday was a bit of a challenge because the wind was blowing so hard.I had to replace 3 valve stem caps due to the wind.

Friday's run was with Danimal ("Things may get a little tight ahead") Somehow, I never bent sheelmetal or broke glass. We'll see how the paint looks after a trip to the car wash. I got a feeling it wont buff out. Still, we had a great day on the trail, gave our winches a great workout, got back hours late, and laughed all the way. Good times.

Saturday was with Paul Hittie out front. I think we need to start calling him 'Skipper' due to the bad luck on this 'three hour tour'. Paul and his new Jeep performed admirably considering the snow depth. The morning was nice and sunny with the wind swirling the frersh snow. The afternoon was near blizzard. It was a good, albeit short, ride in the woods.
 
#1,434 ·
How was your drive Steve? I'm thinking that my runs next year are going to get back to more trail riding with a mixture of rigs. I had a blast with Tom & his open dif XJ. I'm so used to just driving where I want that having a more challenged vehicle along changed the dynamics in a good way. I may not go near the MSA next year.
 
#1,440 ·
Dont worry about holding people back because it didnt. We all had a blast and hopefully everyone in our group felt the same way.

Jim, drive was a little sketchy, but slow and easy got us home. Tons of people spinning out around. It was crazy. Thought I was gonna have to unload the s10 and start pulling people out
:sonicjay:
 
#1,445 ·
Thanks so much to SoFo for putting on such a great event again! Special thanks also to the trail leaders (Mine were LandJ (Jim) on Friday, and kb8ymf (also Jim) on Saturday) and sweeps.

This was my third year and the most fun so far! I'll attend this run every year they have it as long as I make the cut.

Saw some old friends and met some new ones too!

Hope to have the heat fixed in my new Jeep before next year:teehee:
 
#1,446 ·
had a great time. thanks jim and tab for leading and following. couldn't of asked for a better group. everyone in our run got along great, helped each other out and cheered eachother on. I got to follow some cab truck all day that thought it was at silver lake. poor dune flag finally died. :teehee:

cant wait til next year. :thumb:
 
#1,450 ·
had a great time. thanks jim and tab for leading and following. couldn't of asked for a better group. everyone in our run got along great, helped each other out and cheered eachother on. I got to follow some cab truck all day that thought it was at silver lake. poor dune flag finally died. :teehee:

cant wait til next year. :thumb:

and you just sat there and watched it die!! flag killer!! :sonicjay:

nice rig and it was fun watching you wheel it :thumb:
 
#1,451 ·
Hi everyone. I'm Tom (Tommy). Maybe you saw me this weekend. I was riding with Brent (zookini on here). This was my first time attending something like this. I just wanted to say that the event was really nice. I met some great people and learned a lot. Thanks to all the people who helped make this happen. I'm looking forward to meeting and talking to more people on here. With that, I hope to see some familiar faces on the trails, and hope to get a spot in next years SnoFari...Very cool event. Thanks again!
 
#1,479 ·
Sent in the TG report.

I think this is one of my favorite events ever, even not wheeling this year, hell we spent 3-4 hours hanging around the fire with people we'd only met the night before, and had a GREAT time!

Just a great example of why Snofari is loved by so many. Thanks to all of you who put in all the hard work that makes this event SoAwesome!
 
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