Off-Road Event: [THCI] August 1,2 - Drummond Island, MI

Another one... Drummond Island off-roading... August 1-2, 2008 - another fun event on a pristine island with mutch beuty and great off-road....

Where is that?

East side of the UP between Canada and the UP... look for the green arrow on the upper right of the picture....

VERY Northern Michigan

if you haven't been, its a beautiful island and has some really good challenges....

I would consider that to be Canada

I love to join. I've experience a event like that last year so I'm looking forward to have another off-roading. So now it's here, meeting new people and the car fanatics are on the road again.

One of my life long best friends has a cottage, and his parents have a house on Drummond.  That is about the only place in MI you really get a shot at wheeling on rocks!
I'm gonna watch this one closely and see when my brud will be up there.
 
Beautiful place, the dude that owns Dominos Pizza owns a huge chunk of the island....Tom Monaghan.  Has his own air strip.

I thought he sold his stake in the island.... at one time I believe he owned all of it.....
 
Turtle Ridge is a very challenging park (rocks, trees, hills, water), if you are up for a challenge come and join the Hummer Club!

I think he did sell almost all of it.   He owned about half I think?

This weekend is a pre-run......

Yeah but if the fees are $250 a pop forget it!!

They haven't posted a price yet

I think in past years they were like $125 - 130 per person.... but I could be wrong its been a few years since I have been able to attend the event as it generally gets scheduled ontop of some other event going on in my life.....

meeting at the Bear Track on tomorrow (5-31) at 9am to go play in the ORV park - Turtle Ridge
 
oh.... pre-run is no fees....... other then your normal expenses and small groups

pre-run went well.... some guys got up there a day early and played on the state trails.... two H3s punctured their tires..... other then that the only other carage we had was a broken door handle on an H3.... all in all a great run.... Turtle ridge is probably the most challenging off-road in this neck of the woods.... they were making a "mini-rubicon" trail for their top-truck challenge, and this thing was nutz, with boulders 5 ft high..... of course we didn't go on that 200 ft long course, but it was there.... its got everything from new-b to extreme....

Got any photos of the course?

here are some pics from the more "extreme" stuff at Turtle Ridge.... if you aren't up for this kinda stuff there is more tame stuff available as well....
 
Jarhead Getting Winched over Winch Hill
 
Me Winching Jarhead over the hill
 
DJGoofie Getting Winched over the Hill
 
A group shot of the '3s
 
Mini Rubi Trail - Entrance on the right
 
First 1/3 of the course
 
View from down in the course at the middle section -- I don't think a Hummer can make it over that first boulder, but the rest of them didn't look impassable.  I have a feeling we would get hung up on that first one though....
 
The Course - lots of boulders at the end

p.s. I wish I could imbed pictures into my posts like I can in many other forums.... how come we can't imbed links???????

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Phazer, great pics and glad you all had a good time. Thanks for sharing.

We''ll be bringing the 2 again and most likely the 1. We''re bringing a couple friends of ours this time out and are even trying to talk our neighbors into bringing their H3 out. I can''t wait for this year, its going to be awesome! Try to add this one to your calendars everybody!

Great photos, I''m going to try to get out to that event next year.