This was All-4-Fun's 59th year. It is an annual event that moves between central-Colorado Rocky Mountains locations such as Leadville, Buena Vista, Silverton, and Empire. This event is hosted by Mile High Jeep Club, in Denver, and supports Children's Hospital of Colorado. The 2025 event was hosted in Leadville, CO.
While this was my third time attending A4F, it was my first time attending as a MHJC Member and as a volunteer on several committees, including as a Trail Leader. Where Chile Challenge provides lots of technical rock crawling, A4F provides spectacular scenery, often from atop a Colorado 14er. Marmots and mountain goats are frequently seen!
A4F is not limited to Jeeps alone, but the majority of rigs in attendance are Jeeps. This makes for an amazing week providing all the eye candy an off-road nerd could wish for.
The big top is always the center of A4F
ATS Diesel - sponsor rig
Shared a camper trailer with a friend
Day before A4F start - MHJC foilks prepping swag bags
My friend, Mac's TJ - best front license plate ever
Sign-up schedule for Beverage Committee
ATS jeep was purple underneath!
Had to represent my NM4W peeps!
Day 1 - Hospitality Cmte welcoming participants and getting them to the registration tent to sign in
A million funny stickers!
Loved seeing how many other clubs were represented
USFS sign posted for my Sunday run
Pre-running my trail
A4F hosts several meals throughout the week
Free beer is always popular
A4F is awesome, get to make friends from all over the US and even Canada
1st night dinner
The trails sign-up table
Trails sign-up
Night 1 - Welcome ceremony
Best addition to A4F ever - onsite coffee trailer!
Trail sign-up confirmations posted night before runs
1st runs - got to lead 16 rugs on McAllister Loop
About a 20 minte drive from camp to the trail
Bill, from MN, and his hysterical CJ
Getting on the trail for McAllister
Bill's CJ had to get tugged by his friend Shawn
CJ stabilization
Shawn popped a tire
Lunch on top of a mountain
Folks came from all over
And my baby
2nd half of McAllister Loop had lovely creeks and water crossings
McAllister is popular with everyone - hikers, bikers, Jeeps, etc
Day 2 - helping at staging
Staging area was busy every morning
The Rockies in the summer never disappoint
Day 3 - Good Morning!
MHJC Comms & Trails teams passing out radios and potty bags to Trail Leaders at staging every morning
aka A Trailer Full of Fun
Day 3 - ran Tail Gunner for Jay Pochert, doing a trail clean-up run on Beaver Creek
Day 3 - headed over Weston Pass to Fairplay
Weston Pass was beautiful
Beaver Creek clean-up run airing down
Let the trqsh collection begin!
Ben's Ranger truck came in helpful
We didn't stay in order, lots of leapfrogging around each other
Lunch on the Beaver Creek run
Jeff Boggs got me started on his go-to trail snacks
Our haul from cleaning Beaver Creek trail
View from the Beaver Creek trail, looking towards the Wheeler Lake area
Coffee please!
Pancake breakfast
Vendor Day!
Vendor Day - this guy finds Gladiator beds at junk yards and converts them to sweet overlanding trailers
Dennis, from Teraflex, is a longtime A4F supporter
Show & Shine competition on Vendor Day
I got to help judge Show & Shine - I voted for two old Willy's and a sexy rock crawler
Show & Shine lets folks show off and celebrate their own rigs
A well set up Gladiator
Clemson is another longtime A4F supporter
Thursday @ staging, loading up for another trail clean up run
Bald Mountain clean-up run, I saw bighorn sheep in the wild for the first time
MHJC Land Use Chair, Jay Pochert, getting a branch out of the way
Thursday's clean-up run, at the top of Bald Mountain
Our clean-up run crossed paths with a regular run to Bald Mountain - there were a lot of rigs stuffed on that peak
Looking down at Buena Vista
Aairing up after Bald Mountain
MHJC member Ivan (ee-vahn)
MHJC Land Use Chair Jay Pochert chilling with me at the Trails sign-up table
Mac's TJ - he volunteers with the CO Recovery group
Friday - rode shotgun with Mac in a group of 3 rigs doing Yansing
Jim's license plate, LOL
Um, hello! Yansing is supposed to be one-way, headlights definitely unexpected
Jim headed up the Whale Tail on Yansing
Yansing's lunch spot includes a fun play obstacle
Rodrigo was our Trail leader for Yansing, and man doe he know how to drive his Gladiator
Driver rear fender flare got some love scraping around a boulder
Yansing kiosks
View from the Yansing staging area
Teamwork to get Mac's sway bar hooked back up
