Trail Tour 2016

A week-long, low-buck trail challenge

- Rick Péwé

Most Jeep fun runs with your friends are just that—fun. However, when you start adding outsiders to your group, sometimes the fun factor goes down. Not so with the Trail Tour. Dreamed up by Scott Frary 12 years ago, Trail Tour was designed so good friends could have a fun week of hard wheeling (a vacation if you want to think of it that way), and all come back still friends the next year and do it again.

As an invite-only event, it’s pretty easy to keep the slackers and whiners away and also those that only perform regular maintenance on the trail. In addition, the tour is usually based at one motel so stories can be swapped and repairs made during the night instead of fending off wild beasts and foul weather. Scott had been on quite a few of the 4-Wheel & Off Road magazine’s Ultimate Adventures and patterned his own event in much the same way with a different trail or tour every day.