4x4 In Motion

06/05/2025

Hello 4 wheelers..

Well guys and girls.. A whole calendar year has passed us by again..

** There Will Not Be A Poker Run Again This Year (2025) **

We are still going through our mid life crisis with the Club..
At our last couple of meetings we talked about the future of the Club.. We talked about the future of the Poker Run.. And a handful of other things..

We as a Club are still here , though we are probably going to transition over to more of a Group of People rather than a Club..
Just a sign of changing times..

There is still enough of us to maintain the Niagara Rim Trail so you’ll still see us out there..

However there is not enough of us to pull off a Poker Run to the magnitude that it once was..
So we talked about scaling the Run down to make it not so chaotic for us to put on..
But by doing that we want things to still be Great for All of our participants..
So hopefully we can come up with something kool for Everyone to enjoy..

I don’t want to blow smoke up your ass’ either but we are talking about things.. Whether it happens or not is another story..

Thanks again for Everyone’s past support and hopefully future support..

Chris Beecroft - President ~ 4x4 in Motion…

05/25/2025

Niagara Rim is Open as of today..
Go enjoy and be safe… 😎

02/12/2025

BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) is proud to support the recently introduced Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act, a critical step toward restoring balance in the management of public lands. This legislation addresses longstanding concerns about the misuse of the Antiquities Act, which has of

07/24/2024

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐫

We are happy to share that Warren Elliott has been found safe and uninjured at Hell Hole Reservoir. He was found this morning. This is a tremendous relief for Mr. Elliott's family and friends.

A heartfelt thank you to all the search and rescue teams who tirelessly assisted from across the state. We are also immensely grateful to Jeepers Jamboree for their support and hospitality extended to our search teams. They provided food, drinks, and a place to camp overnight.

Thank you to everyone who supported and shared information during the search!

07/22/2024

06/24/2024

Niagara Rim Trail is Open..
Go have Fun.. Please pack Your trash Out…

06/06/2024

Dear 4 Wheelers ,

First off , we hope Everyone is doing good out there..
Hope you All are staying Active and Healthy..

Well.. Being it’s the first week of June we figured we should drop a little note to All of you guys out there..

We Highly Regret to inform All of you that Our Annual Poker Run at Niagara Rim will NOT be held again this year ( 2024 )..
We as a Club just Don’t have the Equipment or Manpower it takes to put on the Run..

Our Club is going through a Restructuring Process and we’re trying to get stuff put back in order.. Not sure what the Future looks like for us just yet , but we’ll do Our Best to Keep Things Together..

We Love Each and Everyone of you guys out there that has ever been a part of Our Run.. We’ve met a lot of Kool people by putting on this run over the years..

We Love the Support you All have Always given Us.. THANK YOU…

Sincerely ,
Chris Beecroft - President ~ 4x4 in Motion…

01/15/2024

01/05/2024

This morning, 4x4 in Motion lost one of their founding charter members, “P***y” Souza.

A good man with a big personality, where everyone was a friend and someone to share a joke and drink.

We think that P***y is now pain free, can hear better and was greeted by all of his Rubicon mates at the green bridge in the heavens.

P***y, may you rest in peace and may you enjoy the crowd that hasn’t heard your jokes in a while. Sometime, in the next few days, we should all tip a glass in honor of P***y. Gin would be his first choice, but don’t fret, there are many others he would choose as well. 🍺 🍸 🥃🍷❤️

07/04/2023

Pe**er Head Rock is just before Hard Brake Hill. It has always been tippy, slippery, off camber, but is worse now.

We have word into the FS asking for permission to put in a Gabion. We have asked before and we’re turned down but hope the Summit Ranger District will allow this as have other sections of the Stanislaus and other forests.

Gabion: a cage, cylinder or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.

07/02/2023

Got the call to work on the Niagara Rim Trail so it can be opened. There were a lot of trees down and the crew cut up 20-30 of them and dragged the debris away.

The road to “Base Camp” 5N09 is a mess, the worst it has ever been. This road has been neglected by the forest service for many years now and we hope the road crew will be dispatched to get it fixed. Over the last many years, we have had to fill holes so participants could get to base camp. We have even checked culverts and cleaned them out at the end of the season. For years now, the snow melt has been cutting through many areas in a section that is probably less than a mile long. 🤞 that it gets fixed.

Thanks to our Forest Service Crew and our club workers, the Niagara Rim Trail is OPEN for the whole loop! Trail head, past the Rock Pile to the Look Out and back out to 5N01 at the Cattle Guard.

5N01 is open to the Eagle Meadows Horse Camp/river crossing = 2nd gate.

Please, no fireworks in the forest, don’t leave white flowers and be safe when camping and wheeling. Be good stewards of our trails and forests.

03/06/2023

Our 2023 Niagara Rim Poker Run will not take place this July. It was a tough decision for our members, but our club needs to take a break.

We have hosted 30 years of poker runs and put family trips on the back burner, missed runs sponsored by CA4WDA and other clubs and said no to other opportunities so we could work our run.

We love our “regulars” and enjoy meeting new wheelers at our run! We hope you can wait a year and join us in July of 2024. We will take this time to expand our horizons, reset and recharge so we
can be at our best when we see you again on the Rim.

Have a great summer wheeling!

4x4 in Motion