Category: Travel

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 […]

Click Here To Visit     All the ZookiMelt articles under one roof!     Below are the links to all the great Melts of the past.     08/19/2010 [trails/footer.htm]  

  Click Here To Visit ZookiMelt 2003with Bill Johnston Photos by Bill Johnston, Steve Schilling and Mike Kirn The ZookiMelt is unquestionably one of the largest (if not THE largest) Suzuki vehicle oriented event in all of North America. It is a time when Suzuki enthusiasts get together from all over the continent to share […]

  Click Here To Visit There were some participants that needed to upgrade and strengthen a few things before hitting the trails. Here you can see some new spring perches being installed.    When one sees signs like this one at the entrance of the Purgatory trail, it would lead one to believe that the […]

  Click Here To Visit Everyone that I met had a blast. There were a few that didn’t get to the event until late, but they made it up on the second day on the trails. The weather had added a bit more water to the trails and creeks, but that made for a few […]

  Click Here To Visit ZookiMelt 2001… A Photo Review Photos and story by: Bob “Killer Bee” Norman The ZookiMelt Rock Crawl quickly turned into “Rock Rage” as cooler minds fell by the wayside and the Loonies prevailed.   It started innocent enough. Groups of folks gather to participate and watch…. Even the Track/Kick crowd […]

  Click Here To Visit ZookiMelt 2001… A Photo Review Photos and story by: Bob “Killer Bee” Norman One of the fellow Zookers, Micah Wills, decided show us how to drop a Zook on it’s side. It actually was a fairly hard go over on the rock face near the river on Pink. Micah approaching […]

        At the playground area we headed for the rock garden. As we tinkered around and over the rocks we noticed smoke and fluid leaking from Tim’s zook. It was anti-freeze! Oh no, how did that happen? We popped the hood and found that the radiator cap was MIA. Bob being the […]

      with Jeff Pollock Photos by Bob Norman ZookiMelt Y2K+1 – Pink Trail It was that time of year again; time to lead the infamous Badlands Pink Trail for ZookiMelt Y2K+1. We began the day at the staging area planning and sizing our groups for the various trails. After a quick discussion we […]

  Click Here To Visit ZookiMelt 2001… A Photo Review Photos and story by: Bob “Killer Bee” Norman Plenty of sports get represented at ZookiMelt… almost like a triathlon, but better and more relaxing.,,,   We have representation from the decathlon events; high jump and hurdles… .. and lets not forget the long jump. …And […]