Disabled Explorers ?

[AA1PR]

Is this an actual group?

I have found many videos on youtube about it etc

I am disabled & would like to join my fellow explorers

I found a website link but it goes nowhere www.disabledexplorers.org

anyone have any info?

[jes3se]

I'm not sure why the site isn't opening for me now. I believe, and I could be thinking of another, similarly named group, that disabled explorers is the group that someone here in Arizona started. The guy I'm thinking of goes by 1leglance. Originally he built up an fj cruiser but last I heard he had built a big full size van that was handicap accessible.
I'm pretty sure he's on expo, but I haven't really been following him lately. I used to see stuff from him on azfj.org.

Updated: he is on here, drop him a pm. I've heard lots of good things about him an he'd be the one to talk to.

[AA1PR]

I'm not sure why the site isn't opening for me now. I believe, and I could be thinking of another, similarly named group, that disabled explorers is the group that someone here in Arizona started. The guy I'm thinking of goes by 1leglance. Originally he built up an fj cruiser but last I heard he had built a big full size van that was handicap accessible.
I'm pretty sure he's on expo, but I haven't really been following him lately. I used to see stuff from him on azfj.org.

Updated: he is on here, drop him a pm. I've heard lots of good things about him an he'd be the one to talk to.

Thanks !

[AA1PR]

I PM'd this guy twice on here & no reply

guess its only on paper or something

maybe I should start such a group

[1leglance]

Sorry for the quietness as I was doing some deep thinking on where to go with DE..
and after it is all said and done I have to say I am shutting it down.
I am just not the right fit with all my family and personal time constraints and the cost are too much for someone like me who hates to fundraise.

So if anyone else wants to run with the idea then please feel free to go for it. I would be happy to relate my experiences and thoughts. What the public sees is only about 20% of the work that goes into a non-profit.

I still take folks out but it is in my personal rig...that solves the issues of super high insurance, and permits for any public land you cross. And I am working with mainly amputees, stroke suffers and para's who have a high activity level. I meet plenty of these folks though the hospital I work at and through contacts I already have thus no public postings.
The website is shut down ($200 a year saved right there) and the 503c is shut down. I looked into handoff of it but as a family we were comfortable with possible liability if the next person made some mistakes.

Again I would encourage anyone thinking of doing something like this to think long and hard about if they could achieve the same goal privately or by working with a group that is already out there.

[AA1PR]

Sorry for the quietness as I was doing some deep thinking on where to go with DE..
and after it is all said and done I have to say I am shutting it down.
I am just not the right fit with all my family and personal time constraints and the cost are too much for someone like me who hates to fundraise.

So if anyone else wants to run with the idea then please feel free to go for it. I would be happy to relate my experiences and thoughts. What the public sees is only about 20% of the work that goes into a non-profit.

I still take folks out but it is in my personal rig...that solves the issues of super high insurance, and permits for any public land you cross. And I am working with mainly amputees, stroke suffers and para's who have a high activity level. I meet plenty of these folks though the hospital I work at and through contacts I already have thus no public postings.
The website is shut down ($200 a year saved right there) and the 503c is shut down. I looked into handoff of it but as a family we were comfortable with possible liability if the next person made some mistakes.

Again I would encourage anyone thinking of doing something like this to think long and hard about if they could achieve the same goal privately or by working with a group that is already out there.

Thanks for the info

I am so sorry to hear of the troubles & it closing, however you haev my sympathy

i was lookiing forward to joining

I too am not in the position to take over anything

However just a club with disabled members would seem interesting or at least that is what I was implying

[sixbennetts]

Can I join? This is the view that I currently am, "enjoying".


Cancer sucks, BTW.

[Garbinator]

6Bennetts, I suppose I can post my thoughts here without stirring up too much trouble, I happened to see this section tonight, also noted the date you posted here. Being in California everything and everyone is subject to some sort of culpability tort. Saying your sorry isn't what it used to be. This is what I understood from the above discussion regards to such a club. Even businesses here in my community are having to close their doors due to excessive liability claims. It ruins creativity, stifles well intentioned entrepreneur opportunist, even causes otherwise viable products to be removed from shelves.

Medically speaking, anyone in this country poses a "Tort threat/Risk" even if they sign a promise to not sue, whom suffers (?) even if its family who see big dollar signs. Its daunting to most, as America a most gracious Nation, but in oh so many other ways, a community of Look the Other Way... Surely somebody else will take the initiative to act. In that respect, I have a special place in my heart for those whom work in the field with our disabled. Friends, family and neighbors' whom continue to visit, even help out. Then those that don't, and man! That right there could run into an entire book describing why folks can't or won't become involved with the disabled.

Regards to going along on an expedition, as I've described could be indicative of what we all are looking into-this Heavy photo, your October circumstances. Tell me? The bag in the photo? Is that your junk on the bunk? Meaning Possessions? You going home? No one can tell except by your description "This is what I am currently enjoying?"

In conclusion, an expedition enthusiast who'd be planning a lengthy trip into the interior with little to no communications, services, or other nearby emergency resources I doubt would wish to take such a responsibility. Heck? Just to get many jobs ah guy has to go through a ton of hoops just to be a pole climber for PG&E!

I hope I didn't upset you or anybody else regards my words. I merely thought it offered some explanation, as no other volunteered any.

I do hope you are doing much better, give us an update?





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