Events
Fall Farm & Country Rally News
Sunday, July 6th, 2025 The rally organizers met on Sunday morning, in the Hobby Lobby parking lot. After making sure we had everybody, we proceeded to pre-run the route, we think you're gonna like it. The On Road portion is between 1.5 and 2 hrs, our Off Road portion...
Alvord Lake Overlanding
Join us while we explore the Alvord Desert, we’ll make our way to this beautiful 12x6 mile dried up lake bed to camp for a couple days this Memorial Day Weekend. Then we venture onward to explore Stonehouse Rd and Burnt Rd plateau before dropping back down for our...
Spring Shotgun Duck Hunt 2025
The Basics: We are out to help Friends of Disabled Veterans (Helping Disabled Veterans and Families at their Prosser Ranch). We came up with a fun way to get people together around a vehicle event with a positive focus of sharing our love of vehicles/driving, while...
Snow Fun
2022 Christmas Tree Run
It's that time of year again, we had our annual Christmas tree run up in Tollgate, OR. Nobody ever gets a tree, but it's a great excuse to hit some fresh white powder before the trails close Dec. 1st to motorized vehicles, until next April. We gathered up at a friend...
NIMAC Winter Challenge 18
A few weeks back we shared some photos of our adventures in Northern Idaho when we went up to watch the North Idaho Mud And Crawl and Insanity Fab's Winter Challenge. Now as I may have mentioned I'm not much of a spectator, but after a couple of laps, I was very glad...
Jan. 28th Snow Run Report
Well worth the read, and share if you like it! https://www.livin4today.com/snowtime-1302-style/
Club News
Members Only*?
Some folks may have noticed a new area on the website, but are surprised to find it requires a password to enter. What gives? Well truth be told, with the club growing it's getting more difficult to remember who is who, or what rig belongs to whom. Not to mention...
More Apparel Additions!
A few years ago we created the opportunity to purchase apparel with the older Logos from TeePublic.com (https://www.teepublic.com/user/livin-4-today) and you still can, today however, we’ve updated the main menu to go to the new store Ringolde’s in West Richland. The...
New Decal Sponsor
New Sponsor: Hey Gang, I mentioned to some at the West Richland Veterans Parade about our new Veterans stickers. I was able to gert with the company that created them, and work a deal for our members. This is a members only discount of 10% off online orders on their...
Dirt & Rocks
Chinaman’s Gulch Videos
Since I'm not yet sure how many parts this will end up, I'm creating a post for these videos separate from the run report. So stay tuned and revisit often to view all of the series here. Oh and yes they're shorter that the Holy Cross video... CHINAMAN’S GULCH Part 1...
Colorado Part Deux!
Colorado Second Year In A Row! The crew decided our first camp would be at Gunnison KOA, Some of us got the pleasure of wheeling all the trails listed, while Lance & Mandi missed a couple due to a mishap on the way, but they got fixed and joined us for the rest...
Web Wheelin’
Web Wheelin' So what do ya do when the weather's not great, you have cast on your leg, and can't do much work or play, and all your friends are at work? You go web wheelin'... I've done a fair bit of off roading, and Julia our 2007 Jeep Wrangler Saharicon, has...
How Tos
Got Water Leaks In Your JK?
Got Water Leaks In Your JK? One of the many annoying things we might find in our beloved Jeep Wrangler JKs is water inside. I happened to trip across a nifty troubleshooter repair guide and felt it was worth sharing. Can't recall where I found it exactly, but others...
Winching
This is a good read with some great tips on winching... http://www.fourwheeler.com/how-to/body-chassis/1611-winching-dos-and-donts-tips-tricks-for-safe-4x4-recovery/#
Sand
2nd Annual Juniper Dunes Run
Rattlesnake 4x4's held their 2nd annual Spring Dunes Run Mar 1st & 2nd, 2025 at Juniper Dunes in South Eastern Washington and we had a blast! With over 50 4x4 there for the run it was an Epic Desert Trail Run! We split up into groups of 10-20 rigs and headed out...
Moses Lake Sand Dunes 4-30-22
We met up last weekend (April 30th, 2022) at the Mercantile north of Pasco a total of 5 rigs and aimed for Moses Lake Sand Dunes. Actually, we went straight to Sporties for lunch then with bellies full we drove out to the dunes. The plan was to camp, but unfortunately...
Juniper Dunes 2-6-21
We met up over the weekend (2-6-21) at Kahlotus Korners to fuel up with about 6 rigs to head out to Juniper Dunes. My first time over the new road, some of group stayed overnight out in Smith Canyon, so 3 more rigs were found on arrival. After an air down and quick...
Overlanding
Alvord Desert Run Report
Friday, May 23rd, 2025 So we all met up on Friday morning, in the South Ridge Playfield parking lot after a quick check to make sure we had everybody we expected, we were off to the far SE corner of Oregon state. We fueled in Pendleton, and Burns on the long 5 hrs...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-30-2023
BRIGHAM CITY, UT TO KENNEWICK, WA HOME STRETCH! Sunday July 30th: Driving ( Brigham City, UT to Tri Cities, WA) (9hrs, 572 mi) (Home!!) We did it we were up and rolling by 7ish, and I think all of us were ready to just be home. Mandi & I missed our dogs we left...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-29-2023
MEEKER, CO TO BRIGHAM CITY, UT ON THE BACKROADS… Saturday July 29th: Driving backroads Meeker to Brigham City (2 lane highways 391 miles – 8hrs?) So we got an early start (for us) and were rolling around 8ish, leaving Meeker we traveled first to a little hamlet...