Category: Travel

  with the Zooki Melt Gang. This is the third installment of a multi part article. Many of the attendees have given their thoughts on the weekend and we share them here with you.  Before we broke for camp, there was the RTI competition on The Badlands’ 23-degree ramp. One by one, egos were inflated, […]

with the Zooki Melt Gang. This is the second part of a multi part article. Many of the attendees have given their thoughts on the weekend and we share them here with you.  The Badlands ORV park offers all the off road terrain you could possibly imagine, and we were to experience most of it […]

ZookiMelt 07   Registration Terrina POC Kim Mazzola Teresa Kirn Candis Johnston   Raffle Bill POC Staff Dinner Terrina POC Billy Bob Readbeard Staff Security Brent POC Bedfordboys Staff         RTI Brent POC Adam & Wife (Lish) Bob Smith Todd Branaman Mike Rollins Rock Rage TD POC First Aid Kim Mazzola POC […]

  with Jim Bova   Zookin’ 2k1 During the fall season the hills of Western Mass are brilliant with color. What a better place for Zookin2k1 the second annual event the brain child of Glenn, Wildweasel, Loud and Yankee Tim Walters. We arrived at the campsite Saturday afternoon as the first group of Zooks was […]

  Click Here To Visit ZookiMelt 2001… A Photo Review Photos and story by: Bob “Killer Bee” Norman Now ,finally just some random trail pics to end with… Jeff Pollock doing his best “Where’s Waldo” gig. “Panel Pivoting” around a tree on orange. Dig the groovy tractor tires!! Who says Trackers can’t wheel? They’re cutting […]

  Click Here To Visit At 9:00 AM on Friday morning, the gates to the Badlands Off Road Park opened for the throngs of Zooks, tow rigs and trailers that had patiently waited. Once they made it to the registration area, the line stretched back half a mile before disappearing around the corner and out […]

  Click Here To Visit with Bill Johnston ZookiMelt 2007 – A Family Reunion First of all, thanks to all of you that made it out to the Badlands for ZookiMelt 2007. Without you, there would be no event. You came expecting a few days of fun, friends and even a bit of excitement. I […]

  Click Here To Visit with Brent May WHY I ZOOKAnd other stories about ZookiMelt     In what seems like an eon ago, I purchased my first Suzuki Samurai.  A few of my close friends and I were wanting to start a 4×4 club, and big mud trucks just wasnt something we were interested […]

Click Here To Visit Y2K ZookiMelt Pre-run!With Jeff Pollock   Tim Porter, Jeff Chester and myself figured that we would hit the Badlands Thursday morning and do some last minute testing of our rigs to work out any bugs we may have but little did we know that Troy Graham, founder of the Zookimelt, already […]

Click Here To Visit The Green Trail at the Y2K ZookiMelt!With Bill Johnston The trail levels were distinguished by three different colors. Green was meant to be the easiest, so the stockers would have some fun but nothing above their capabilities. The Pink (yes, pink) trail was the hardcore tough route. And the Orange was […]