CT4WD News
February 24th, 2010
New! Wilderness and Remote First Aid Course
We are launching our Newest Course! We are excited to announce we will be holding a Wilderness and Remote First Aid Course coming up in March. For more information please visit the Driver Training pages.
February 23rd, 2010
Facebook!
Visit us on Facebook and join our Canada Toyota 4WD Facebook Group and our Fan Page. We'll post our updates, courses, videos, photo's and send invites to everything we do.
We look forwards to seeing you on Facebook.
Updates:
- Our CT4WD Calendar has been updated with upcoming trips this year. There will be more updates with our courses and local trail runs.
- We will be offering some new courses this season starting with our Wilderness First Aid, then our 202 Course, and our a la carte courses: Rock, Sand, Snow Course.
- Canada Toyota 4WD Association Die-Cut Stickers are Now Available!
- Keep an eye on our site as a flurry of updates will be coming your way!
December 30th, 2009
Some new SWAG!
CT4WD Desktop Photo's
Get our first set of CT4WD Desktop Photos in the Swag Shop. More will be coming in the New Year to keep you daydreaming about your Toyota while you're at work!
CT4WD Die-Cut Stickers
Stay tuned for new Canada Toyota 4WD Association Die-cut stickers.
- Red
- Black
- White
- Reflective White (Special Edition)
- Fluorescent Orange (Special Edition)
December 15th, 2009
We Want You!
CT4WD Wants You! We're looking for volunteers to help us strive to reach our goals for this upcoming year as we have some big aspirations. The CT4WD Team has been hard at work putting together our plan for this upcoming year with some really big and exciting trips, courses, and events. We just need more horsepower!
Join in the forum for putting your name down so we are able to get to know you better and see how we can work together!
4WD Toyota Owner Magazine
CT4WD was also featured in this November/December issue of 4WD Toyota Owner Magazine. Ben Crockett featured CT4WD in his "Steering Column" article regarding Marlin Crawler's Round-up at the Rubicon. If you haven't signed up for this magazine do so especially if you're passionate about Toyota 4WD's!
Thank you Ben for the great Article and we really appreciate your support especially on the Rubicon Trail! We look forwards to seeing you up here in Canada in the near future as we show you around the Great White North!
November 20th, 2009
CT4WD will be opening in your province sometime within the 2010 year! The CT4WD Team has been working on developing the process in working to open across Canada in the similar way we've been working in Alberta.
We believe having divisions across Canada that are committed to educating and operating responsibly while helping each other become better will provide a better chance at keeping our trails open.
We invite all Toyota 4WD owner's to get involved in the forum and with the CT4WD Team to become the biggest and the best Toyota 4WD Association in the world. We look forwards to making the trip across this country to ensure Canada Toyota 4WD Association follows the ethics and values that we strive for in each province.
We are working to get Alberta fully under way then we will be working our way through British Columbia. Once that is fully operational we will be working right through to the East Coast. We value the "No Ego" mentality and with that we strive to have an Association that has no boundaries with no east coast vs. west coast or Calgary vs. Edmonton as we are Canada Toyota 4WD Association which means one.
We look forwards to meeting you soon!
After you've Clicked to Join and sent in your info... Get in the CT4WD Forum!
October 6th, 2009
Join us for Shake Night this Wednesday evening at 7:30ish PM. We will be giving away a free Milkshake to our first 50 CT4WD members courtesy of Peter's Drive Inn!
We also have another batch of stickers there as well in Large size!
We will be winding down our schedule this month as we have Thanksgiving and Halloween on our trip dates, however, we do have something fun in the works for this month. Follow the thread here:
http://forum.ct4wd.com/showthread.php?t=735
We hope you have a great Thanksgiving Dinner with lots of Turkey and Pumpkin Pie!
See you at Peter's!
September 20th, 2009
David (tent), Gary (Winch), Meghan (motochick), and Nathan (freeze) made a successful 4,400KM to California through the Rubicon Trail for Marlin Crawler's Round Up and back.
They endured gruelling 22 Mile trail full of boulders, rocks, dust, roots and granite slabs. Gary drove a 1st Gen TRD Off-Road solid axle swapped Tacoma, David drove a Trail Teams edition FJ Cruiser, and Nathan drove a 2nd Gen Tacoma TRD Off Road co-piloted by Meghan
They met up with the amazing people at 4WD Toyota Owner Magazine and were fortunate to have been able to 4WD with Ben, David and Kevin. Without meeting their crew, the trip would not have been as smooth and dent free!
The team from CT4WD were known as the crazy Canadians that drove all the way down in new Toyota 4WD's to drive the Rubicon. After completing the Walker Hill, Little Sluice and the Big Sluice, the CT4WD team had believed the worst was over according to the locals! The last 1KM to the Rubicon Springs was a extremely enduring with massive boulders, a steep decline and notorious body damage.
Arriving at Rubicon Springs for Marlin Crawler's Round Up, the team was greeted by cheers and applause as the Canadians that were deemed to not be able to make the trail due to small tires, IFS, and really clean body work made it. They also managed to win the furthest away award as they drove 2,200 KM to the event!
Gary, David, Meghan and Nathan had an incredible opportunity to sit and talk with Marlin, Christine and Big Mike for a almost two hours as Marlin was very interested to learn how far we came and where we were from. An incredible family behind the legend of the Marlin Crawler. That evening the crew from 4WD Toyota Owner Magazine were extremely hospitable and asked us to join them to stay at their camp. It was an early evening as they had to awake and depart at 5AM the next morning.
Believing the worst of the obstacles were over according to the locals, there was Cadillac Hill! A winding climb with tight boulder sections and trees, the end was not near. David sustained some encounters with the boulders but with Gary's incredible spotting the CT4WD team completed the three day excursion through the Rubicon Trail.
A huge thank you to Ben, David and Kevin of 4WD Toyota Owner Magazine, Marlin, Christine, Big Mike and the Marlin Crawler team for the amazing event and hospitality, Gary for his amazing spotting and Meghan for the spotting, food and photo's!
We will be invading the MCR9 with more Canadians next year!
August 28th, 2009
Welcome aboard Heninger Toyota!
We're proud to announce our first Toyota Dealership that has stepped up in supporting our vision and philosophy in a very big way.
In on-going conversations for the past two months, we have worked out an agreement on how we will work together to promote responsible 4WD’ing while engaging Toyota Dealership support with the our Toyota 4WD community. We know how much we love our OEM Toyota parts even for the older generation Toyota’s!
Heninger Toyota believes in the complete philosophy of walking the talk. As an option, new Toyota Tacoma, Toyota FJ Cruiser, and Toyota 4Runner owner’s will be sent through our education system. This ensures new 4WD owner’s are educated in proper 4WD driving technics, proper trail ethics, treading lightly, and safe recovery techniques while taking part in a growing community of responsible Toyota 4WD owners.
If we start new owner’s in the right direction, it is a small part in working towards obtaining the larger goal of keeping our trails open.
We are also working together to change the “stealership” stereotype that Dealerships have in the 4WD community.
Heninger Toyota has also agreed to help our members with some great deals and support.
Here are some of benefits a CT4WD Full Member will receive:
Phase I
- CT4WD discount on all Genuine Toyota OEM parts
- No discrimination towards properly modified Toyota 4WD’s
- CT4WD pricing at their Toyota Certified Body Shop (Think pin stripping!)
Phase II
- Stay tuned!
A huge thank you to Wes and Michael at Heninger Toyota for working with us on making a difference and a step in the right direction!
August 18th, 2009
Come join us for our CT4WD 1st Annual BBQ!
Be there or be... well you know the rest!
We will be hosting a BBQ for our members to kick of our first official season with food, drinks, Marshmallow/Smores roast raffles, a 50/50 draw for The Children's Wish Foundation and a Show and Shine (or Dirty)! We will have some awesome announcements as well for our members.
Click here for more info and to RSVP
August 8th, 2009
What a fury of great updates for the Association!
We have already had two Intro Courses and 101 Course completed so far! Congratulations to the current graduates of the two courses. We are really excited to see so many members really behind our vision and philosophy of proper use of our backcountry.
We had our first Official 2 day trip to the Crowsnest Pass which proved to be very scenic and challenging. We are currently planning out the next 2 day trip to the Northern part of Alberta which should also provide a very exciting trip.
Tomorrow is our Official Easy Trail run and we expect to have about 15 trucks on the trail! We are now breaking up into smaller groups to cut down on the time it takes to make it through the obstacles as well as vehicle capabilities. Which provides something interesting for the more built Toyota's as well as the stockers.
Membership fees are due at the end of this month (August) so get in and purchase your yearly membership. We are also running a special if you purchase for 2 years there is a 20% savings on the second year!
Stay tune for some really exciting stuff coming next month....!!
July 5th, 2009
Sign up for the first CT4WD Intro Course. This is a mandatory course to get all members of CT4WD on the same page in-terms of basic vehicle knowledge, trail etiquette, intro to Tread Lightly!, basic trail safety, intro to driving techniques, and prep for a trail run.
This takes place Saturday July 11th @ 8:30 AM
Location: TBA
June 24th, 2009
We're having a get together at Peter's Drive-In! Come on down and have a milkshake and talk Toyotas.
Where: Peter's Drive-In
When: 8:00pm June 24th
June 9, 2009
Lot's of updates for today as we have been busy working on cool swag and amazing education and training programs... most of all... creating the best Association for our Members!
New Stuff
- We are a Canada Corporation as well as a Calgary Division
- Canada Toyota 4WD Association
- Calgary Toyota 4WD Association
- We have teams to organize each part of the Association
- Trail Run Team
- Education and Training Team
- Website and Forum Team
- Marketing Team
- Trail Issues Team (Coming Soon)
- We have Stickers!!!
- We have put together our Driver Education and Training programs
- The Intro Course (Mandatory for all Members)
- The 101 Course
- The 202 Course
- The Expedition Course (Coming soon)
- We are running two Official Trail Runs a Month
- Easy Trail Run (Second Sunday of the Month)
- Difficult Multi-Day Trip (Last Weekend of the Month)
- We just completed a very successful All-Pro Off-Road and National 4WD Group buy that saved our members hundreds of dollars.
May 21, 2009
We had our first meeting at our new location (Boomtown) last night and it was great to see you guys out there. Remember everyone that the meeting is held on the third wednesday of every month. We'd love to see you and your trucks out there. The next monthly meeting will be held on June 17th.
May 19, 2009
Come to the National 4WD Centre Open House!!
We will be showing our support for All-Pro Off-Road and National 4WD at the open house event.
When: June 13th, 2009 @ 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
What: Events include a charity bbq for CJ kids fund. One day pricing only on all inventory in the store and some other goodies such as a raffle for a grand prize. In the past National has given away sets of tires, winches, 20" rims etc... All-Pro will be sending some great prizes as well for us Toyota heads as well as a Tacoma with the Long Travel Kit.
We hope to see you there!
May 11, 2009
This is HUGE!!
April 3, 2009
Join in for our Monthly Official Run!
Details:
Saturday April 11
Morning Meeting@8:30 AM
Smitty's Cochrane
2 Westside Drive
Cochrane
Wheeling through Waiparous
Click on Upcoming trips to your left for more details on what to bring and what to expect
Well get a meeting in at 8:30 am to meet everyone and plan out our route.
Once the snow melts we'll be able to hit different trails like Waiparous, Crowsnest Pass, and Castle Mountain in the near future.
See you there!!
March 30, 2009
National 4WD Centre is offering our members 5-10% off parts and accessories. Especially if you have a stock rig... now is the time to start ordering some parts for the spring and summer!
Give Shane a visit or phone call and he'll look after your needs (truck needs!). Supply him with your member number and name to get you started!
New stuff:
- We're also going to have an official CT4WD trip every second Saturday of the month! Click here for the dates
- Now we're at 18 Members....awesome!
- We've got a forum that's up and running for us to take part in discussions.
- We'll have photo's and a video from our first easy run at Waiparous this week.
March 23, 2009
First Wheeling day trip and meet is planned for this Saturday March 28!!!
Details:
Morning Meeting@8:30 AM
Smitty's Cochrane
2 Westside Drive
Cochrane
Wheeling through Waiparous
Click on Upcoming trips to your left for more details on what to bring and what to expect
Well get a meeting in at 8:30 am to meet everyone and plan out our route.
See you there!!
March 20, 2009
You can also follow the updates on TTORA on the start of the Association!
Congrats to Phantom118 member #007 for signing up as member 007 for a free All-Pro 6" Sticker.
So far we have 10 members!
Send in your:
Name
Phone
We are putting a member list together to send email reminders for future meetings, events and rides.
If you'd like to send in an awesome picture of your truck and specs so we can start a member's rides section. Send it to ct4wda@gmail.com
March 19 2009
Today is the first day of the website. We look forwards to meeting all of you and getting in some really good 4WD'ing trips!
CT4WD stand for Canada Tacoma 4WD Association
Eventually we can make it Canadian Toyota 4WD Association when we get larger.
You can test out the BB Board and post up if you'd like
print version
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