UTV Con'Quest

Moms Don’t Just “Go” On the Rubicon Trail…
They:
✔ Make all the lists
✔ Pack the snacks
✔ Buy extra snacks because apparently everyone is starving every 17 minutes
✔ Fill water bottles
✔ Remember sunscreen
✔ Pack hoodies for cold mornings
✔ Pack shorts for hot afternoons
✔ Find the missing glove
✔ Wash the camping blankets
✔ Charge radios, lights, and phones
✔ Pack first aid kits
✔ Remember medications
✔ Buy drinks
✔ Ice the coolers
✔ Label bins
✔ Organize the bags
✔ Pack kids clothes
✔ Pack EXTRA kids clothes
✔ Clean out the UTV
✔ Air down tires
✔ Help spot obstacles
✔ Take family photos
✔ Keep everyone hydrated
✔ Find lost hats
✔ Hand out wipe
✔ Manage campfire chaos
✔ Make sure everyone survives the vault toilets 😂
✔ Set up sleeping bags
✔ Pack it all back up
✔ Clean dirt out of everything afterward
✔ Do 14 loads of laundry when they get home
…and somehow they still enjoy the sunset at Rubicon Springs with their family ❤️

To all the moms making adventure happen behind the scenes…We see you. We appreciate you.

Happy Mother’s Day

Reno friends stop by the Reno Off-Road Expo to hear more about UTV Con'Quest and why you should absolutely join us on the trail this summer. Let us take on all the heavy lifting of food, drinks and entertainment ~ you show up with your camping gear to sleep, a chair and clothes. Clothes are a good thing...

Are you a big tent, small tent, or sleep under the stars type?

Happy St Patricks Day! We are “lucky” to have all the green machines on the Rubicon Trail🍀 It’s not just us out sharing green beers and tasty treats…it's friendships that last a lifetime!

Lets see your green machine...

Happy International Women's Day to all of the incredible offroad women that have traversed the Rubicon Trail! You may not realize that women have had a significant role on the Rubicon Trail since its inception...
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Did you know that the first automobile to arrive at the Rubicon Springs was driven by a woman!?! In fact, there were 2 women (front seat) and 2 men (back seat) that drove a Mitchell car from San Francisco to Tahoe, to the Rubicon Springs, out all the way over to Reno, then back to San Francisco via Placerville. 16 days in this open vehicle. This was in 1908 ~ 118 years ago ~ where pavement wasnt even on the highways.

Marion Walcott was her name, a journalist who wrote the story for 'Pacific Coast Motor' in 1908. It was noted she drove 700 of the 724 mile round trip. She was accompanied by another journalist Edward Cohen. The trip was initiated by A.E. Hunter, the son-in-law of Daniel Abbott, owner of Rubicon Springs at the time, who owned the Mitchell automobile dealership in San Franciso and San Jose. He and his wife Frances Hunter were also along for the adventure.

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Sierra Nevada Phillips Clark Bryson was an enterprising woman who bought the Rubicon Soda Springs on December 8, 1888 ~ 140 years ago! A widow & single mother, she had the energy, resources and foresight to turn Rubicon Springs into a popular tourist attraction.

Vade, her nickname, entrepreneurial spirit also helped to secure a more formal road through Rubicon Springs. She also began the first stagecoach service through the area.

After 6 seasons of operation, she sold the properties back (at significant profit) and went on to manage a number of resorts around Lake Tahoe, married again and had another daughter. She did come back to manage the Rubicon Springs Hotel under the new owner for the summer tourist seasons 1904-1907.

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More details and Pictures are from 'Rubicon Springs and The Rubicon Trail: a history' By Rick Morris c 2011 This is just a teaser, read the whole chapter!!.

We do love this time of year for snow wheeling. It is beautiful and its own kind of challenge.

But what can be fun, can also rotate into a challenge quickly. "Don't be That Guy" Go prepared with extra food & water, warm clothing and a couple sets of gloves. Don’t go by yourself. It can get very dangerous out there. What is on your winter "do not leave without" list?

If you want to go snow wheeling, join us next weekend for the 3rd Annual Rotary Poker Run. Feb 28th ☆ First card at Jeepers Jamboree office between 9-10am (see pics for schedule)