CFFC Fall Color Tours 2023 - Event Date: 17 Sep. 2023 - 23 Sep. 2023

Welcome to the 2023 Fall Color Tours (FCT) announcement!  My wife, Nancy, and I would like to invite you to join us this year following the sun over the mountains on 2-track trails just made for old Willys Jeeps.  We will again invite 50 Jeeps and their owners to journey through the mountains of Colorado on guided tours along hidden trails far back into the wild country.  We will hold the event from September 17^th through the 23^rd.  Mark your calendars and get ready for a Willys good time!

Our dedicated team of guides, Bruce, Ron, Jpet, and Mike, will take you to mountain views that you’ve never seen before.  We’ll traverse steep and rugged trails into dense forests and through running streams.  We’ll start each day at the Thirsty Dirt Ranch (TDR) at 8,000 feet elevation, and take you as high as 13,000 feet above sea level.  From that high up you’ll be able to wave at jets passing by, and they’ll wave back.  We promise you’ll have fun on these adventures, and we promise that no Jeep will be left behind. 

As in years past, we’ll ask you to fill out a registration form and mail or email it to me at the address on the bottom of the form.  The form is available online at this address:

https://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/uploads/1479/cffc_fct_2023_Registration.pdf

Please print it, fill in the information requested, then send it to me.  I will collect the forms from January thru April.  Then on May 1^st I will run a lottery using a random number generator to assign numbers to each registration form.  Those numbers will be put in order from lowest to highest, and that will determine the order for sorting the first 50 Primary slots from the remaining Alternate slots.  For those who make the Alternate list, I will offer 5 jobs you can do in exchange for attending this FCT.  We tried this idea in 2022 and it worked great, so we’ll do it again in 2023. 

The TDR will be headquarters for all the rides again this year.  And will be the primary campground for anyone who wants to camp, in a tent or a motor-coach, we have the room.  We have acres of flat ground to park trailers, set up camps, and walk around to visit old friends and make new ones. 

I’m going to put together a free guide book, or hand book, to help answer your questions about the FCT.  I’ll post a link to it online for anyone who’s interested in a copy after I get it put together.  This year we’re planning on hosting 3 tours every day, Monday thru Thursday, with the grand tour on Aspen Ridge on Friday.  Each tour will take most of the day, starting about 9:00am.  Driver’s meeting will start at 8:30am in front of the shop.  We’ll announce the list of tours by late June and we’ll have the list posted at the shop. 

Send in your registration and keep your fingers crossed that you’ll be joining us this fall for a truly wonderful adventure.  We look forward to seeing you in September!