I haven't put much thought into it yet. We need people to contribute their ideas.
I was sort of thinking about something toward the center of the state anyway. Assume that we have enough vehicles interested with a wide enough range of mods that we'll definitely split up the group everyday into one for easier trails and one for harder trails. When we were in Buena Vista the first time, the whole group stuck to easy to moderate trails. So there's tougher trails that we could do like Chinaman's Gulch and Iron Chest (both right there near Buena Vista) or Holy Cross.
Near Buena Vista there's a good variety of easier trails, but not too many really hard ones.
If we'd stay in Leadville, Holy Cross is quite a bit closer.
Ideas, ideas... we need to hear more people's ideas....
Also about the length of the gathering -- I assume 3 days again like this last CO4RJ??? Thurs-Sat was really nice since we all had quite a driving distance to Ouray. At future gatherings we might include Sunday for trails if our home base is pretty close to Denver, though. What do you think? Or should we keep Sunday open again since that probably helped the out-of-state folks to make it. The attendance of the out-of-staters helped make it the success that it was.
About AZ - I think we should still have a CO4RJ. If there's also something in AZ, great. It's just more opportunities to meet people and wheel in different locations.
Another question I have is whether we should have an event in Moab, Utah. You don't need a permit as long as you very strickly stay under 49 vehicles. (More than 49 vehicles at a Moab event without a permit means very hefty fines per vehicle per day). Due to Moab's hot climate, if we go there we'd need to do that in either Spring or Fall (avoid the summer, just like AZ).