OTR Meeting Minutes July 2025

ON THE ROCKS, INC.
Club Meeting Minutes _________________________________________________________

CALL TO ORDER:
A monthly meeting of On The Rocks, Inc. was held on July 22, 2025. The meeting convened at 7:00pm. Vice President, Steve Mallasch presiding. We shared some memories about the recent passing of Keith Lyon and passed around a card to send to his wife. Also passed around the sign up sheet for the members Summer BBQ on August 30th at 4pm. Steve introduced the officers on the board.

MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: 12 people

GUESTS: 3 guests

Robert and Jennifer 2020 Rubicon has done 1 run. Looking forward to getting out and enjoying the trails.
Eric, he doesn’t have a Jeep. He has been on 3 runs as a passenger.
Dennis and Karrie has a 2021 Jeep Rubicon Diesel and has been on 3 runs with the club and been to several meetings. They live in Santa Clarita.

OFFICER REPORTS:

President: Dwayne Wilson - Absent

Vice President: Steve Mallasch
-Introduced the guests.

Treasurer: Bob Marshall
-Everything is good, anyone needs to update their address please let him know. Money is in the bank. We are still talking about the website and how much that expense will be.

Secretary: Sheri Mallasch
-Minutes taken. Will be posting them on Facebook and the OTR website.

Education Officer: Brian Kenny
-HAM radios is the topic. Especially for the new members. It is the preferred radio and less people are on it. You are supposed to have a license to run the HAM radio. To use a HAM radio, you are supposed to have a license and it lasts 10 years. You do not need to retest, just renew it before it expires. There are 35 multi choice point test, you need to get 25 correct to pass. Brian passed around a link to take sample tests. You will learn things when you study for the test. How fast do radio waves travel? Speed of light. The club frequency is 146550. Our frequency is about 2 meters long. You can program your radio to talk to a repeater and a different frequency, and it would go farther. We don’t really do that though. If you are on a hand held, it will bounce off things, you can change the orientation by moving slightly and find you can talk farther. Don’t talk into the microphone, put some distance so we can understand you.

Safety Officer: Mike Sidlinger
-When people volunteer to lead a run, before you do, please think about:
Liability Releases- when people have guests, they need to sign the release.
Caravan – make sure everyone knows the location of where they are taking off and have a full gas tank. Let them know the time of departure. If someone is late, maybe wait 15 min for a late person.
Bob Boltner would have contact info for fire and rescue so if someone happened on a run, he would have it. If you are going in the forest, call a local ranger to get contact info in case of emergency.
Before starting trail, make sure all drivers have a radio. If they do not have one, a lot of members have multiple, so they can borrow. Appoint someone to be the tail end driver. While you are on the trail, keep track of all the Jeeps.
When everyone is airing up, make sure everyone’s Jeep is able to get home safely. Let the leader know when you are leaving.

Club Affiliate: Lyndol James
-Absent

RUN REPORT:

-West Frasier Park Run by Steve Mallasch. He ran from forestry trail 118 took the old lookout tour and then came down to Miller Jeep Trail head. Had a nice run, 4 vehicles went and no break downs. Had a new member Adan that has a new Bronco that came along.

UPCOMING RUNS/EVENTS:

West Lake Run led by Dwayne Wilson 7/23-7/27
Colorado Run led by Jerome Blunck 8/2-8/9
Montrose Run led by Rich and Corkey Wohlers 8/9-8/16
Dusy Run led by Dwayne Wilson 8/20-8/24
Rohler Flatts led by Steve Mallasch 8/24

PASS THE HAT:

$59.00

OPEN FORUM:

Someone asked for info on how to find runs, we gave the website.

BREAKDOWN AWARD:

No break down award since no one broke down on the trail.

FOR SALE/WANTED:

Brian still has a Slider Dominic with rails without Fridge will fit almost any ARB fridge not used.
Dennis has a stock Rubicon wheel with a tire on it.

NEXT MEETING:

Our next meeting is on August 26, 2025.

NEW MEMBER VOTING:

All the members voted in Dennis and Karrie as a new member.

ADJOURNMENT:

The meeting was adjourned at 7:55pm.