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A friend an I attended Bronco Off-Roadeo Nevada yesterday, and it was an absolute blast! I can see the value of attending this no matter what your personal off-roading history is. The guides do a great job walking you through the various technologies that the bronco has to help you off road.
It's 40 minutes from the strip, so make sure you give yourself enough time to get your rental and get out there. The last mile is rough gravel road, so a small suv would be ideal, but you could do it in a car but it would just take a while. You do not need to be there at 7:45, 8is plenty early enough.
You're going to start with registration, which is signing a piece of paper, showing your ID and getting a yeti water bottle.
Then you'll do a quick introduction to the vehicle, and they'll tell you pick your vehicle. You'll head up to the base camp where everyone will introduce themselves and the guides go over some general off road and bronco specific questions. When they start asking questions, you'll get sticker for everyone you answer. You want as many stickers as you can get. Study up on bronco features and general off-roading terms.
Also, when they ask for volunteers you want to volunteer for the third opportunity, it's the most fun, just in front of the water. It was the most exciting of the three demos. Again, you'll get stickers and you definitely want those stickers.
I don't want to spoil anything, as I want you to experience it for yourself, so I won't share anything specific about the trails/obstacles.
After that the guides take you from obstacle to obstacle walking you through all of the major ones. Depending on the skill level of the group, they'll get more or less involved in the simple obstacles.
We got pretty friendly with 2/3 guides, and because of that one of them stayed with us as much as he could and offered us some additional freedom on the trails where he knew I could handle it. He'd hold us back for several minutes and then tell me to totally gun it. There are no high speed sections for the general public, but he let me have a couple where it was reasonably safe and that was cool as hell.
For the obstacles that they guide you through, it's all about focusing on your spotter and absolutely trusting them. They know exactly what the broncos can handle and will push it. For obstacles that you do a great job on, they'll give you another sticker. It's also important that on the drops and downhills that you go very slow, like slower than you think is possible. So much more about the brake than the gas.
Food was pretty decent, lots of opportunities to fill your water bottle and to use the bathroom. Really suggest you do that, I think someone in our group had to pee on the side of the trail.
If you were out there on 5/10, feel free to add photos!
It's 40 minutes from the strip, so make sure you give yourself enough time to get your rental and get out there. The last mile is rough gravel road, so a small suv would be ideal, but you could do it in a car but it would just take a while. You do not need to be there at 7:45, 8is plenty early enough.
You're going to start with registration, which is signing a piece of paper, showing your ID and getting a yeti water bottle.
Then you'll do a quick introduction to the vehicle, and they'll tell you pick your vehicle. You'll head up to the base camp where everyone will introduce themselves and the guides go over some general off road and bronco specific questions. When they start asking questions, you'll get sticker for everyone you answer. You want as many stickers as you can get. Study up on bronco features and general off-roading terms.
Also, when they ask for volunteers you want to volunteer for the third opportunity, it's the most fun, just in front of the water. It was the most exciting of the three demos. Again, you'll get stickers and you definitely want those stickers.
I don't want to spoil anything, as I want you to experience it for yourself, so I won't share anything specific about the trails/obstacles.
After that the guides take you from obstacle to obstacle walking you through all of the major ones. Depending on the skill level of the group, they'll get more or less involved in the simple obstacles.
We got pretty friendly with 2/3 guides, and because of that one of them stayed with us as much as he could and offered us some additional freedom on the trails where he knew I could handle it. He'd hold us back for several minutes and then tell me to totally gun it. There are no high speed sections for the general public, but he let me have a couple where it was reasonably safe and that was cool as hell.
For the obstacles that they guide you through, it's all about focusing on your spotter and absolutely trusting them. They know exactly what the broncos can handle and will push it. For obstacles that you do a great job on, they'll give you another sticker. It's also important that on the drops and downhills that you go very slow, like slower than you think is possible. So much more about the brake than the gas.
Food was pretty decent, lots of opportunities to fill your water bottle and to use the bathroom. Really suggest you do that, I think someone in our group had to pee on the side of the trail.
If you were out there on 5/10, feel free to add photos!
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But Matt said it wasn't a problem. It was a total hoot to be bouncing around like a pachinko ball on the washes and kicking up a huge trail of dust. It was the only trail where I was not in the M1 gear. I was in D and probably going 40mph at one point.
