Canyoneering in Jeep Magazine

[rcwild]

Just received a couple copies of Jeep Magazine, Volume 4 Issue 3. Features an article about Randi Poer canyoneering during the ACA's Spring Canyon Rendezvous in Arizona.

[catware11]

I went to my local Jeep dealer yesterday and picked up a free copy of the magazine. I thought it was a great article! They had some fantastic pictures of C****** and I thought it was well written as well. The article spanned 7 pages and had a spectacular 2 page spread of the upper waterfall on the magazine's TOC.

They had a good message on safety and mentioned the ACA courses and also directed people to this website. With the magazine being mailed to thousands of Jeep owners in this country it will be interesting to see what new traffic we have :)

Randi had some great quotes too! I especially like the closing quote on the article:

"I feel like I'm living someone else's life sometimes," she says happily. "But it's not -- it's mine!"

[catware11]

Okay, for everyone not feeling like driving to their local Jeep dealer to get a free copy of this magazine, I painstakingly created a .pdf file of the article. Here is the link to the 3MB download:

Jeep Canyoneering Article (http://www.bfndevelopment.com/cgi-bin/home/Members/DLTrack/DLTrack.cgi?User=11268&ID=2206&Code=NvTo9L)

You may want to right-click on that link and select "Save Target As..." to save a permanent copy on your computer. Also do this if you have problems opening the file within your browser.

Several of the photos are spread across two pages, so in Adobe Acrobat be sure to select:

v6: View->Page Layout->Facing
v5: View->Continuous-Facing

If you open Acrobat within a web browser, the buttons are:

v6: click small icon at bottom right of window showing two pages side by side for 'Facing'
v5: click small icon at bottom left of window showing ends of 4 pages together for 'Continuous-Facing'

Edited:
Bizarre! Valerie told me that the original doc was missing the last page, which shows Randi stemming the slot. My copy of the magazine does not have a photo on that page; instead the page is an advertisement for Jeep products! And the pages are consecutively numbered, so it's not like it was torn out. Anyway I've added the page to the .pdf. This might be the only way for some of you to see this final photo! Thanks to Gary for scanning it :)

(If anyone feels like this is a copyright violation let me know and I'll take down the link.)

[funintheslots]

...of course, it's a copyright violation, but I have a hard time imagining Jeep caring. Seems like harmless free advertising to me - but I'm not a lawyer looking for something to do. :rolleyes:

Hopefully all the lawyers are currently fully occupied figuring out how to rape every remaining inch of wild lands and ocean coast looking for oil to fill up our cars and trucks - and Jeeps, incidentally...

[catware11]

Well, if it's a question of legality, then whether they care or not it should be taken down. My thought though is that the article is about us, mentions several of us by name, has photos of many more of us, and to host a copy of the article and post a link to it on a forum that many in the article frequent saying "hey, look what Jeep publically wrote about us" isn't a copyright violation.

Also, the magazine is free, at least for anyone who stops by a Jeep dealership, and the reproduction of the article isn't for commercial gain. When I was in college we'd often get handouts of magazine articles copied by our professors, instead of them buying an issue for each of us or getting permission from the publisher.

In any case, I will recommend that people buy a Jeep! I was a proud owner of a Sahara Wrangler for 5 years and they are nice machines! Look in the article the places you can go and sports you can do once you are a Jeep owner!