About Pistons Wild

Some of our members are active drag racers in the NHRA and we also have a few off-road racers in the PNW4WDA. When we can find the time in the summer, many of our members are water sports enthusiasts and just enjoy a day out boating on the water and then in the winter, some of our members take to the beautiful snow covered mountains of the Northwest, riding their snowmobiles.

Piston’s Wild has also worked for the past 4 years with the DNR to organize the “Pick-Up-the-Burn” clean-up day for the Yacolt Burn Forest area. Our first year in 2007 was only staffed by 10 volunteers, the second year 85 volunteers, the third year 120 volunteers and we hope to see over 150 volunteers for the 2010 event.

One of our primary functions over the past 3 ½ years has been to raise funding to support the building and maintenance of the motorized trail system in the proposed Yacolt Burn ORV Recreation Area. Due to generous cash donations from local businesses, clubs and individuals – we have raised over $16,000 to go toward the creation and maintenance of the motorized trails in the Yacolt Burn State Forest. Many of those dollars were also earned by dedicated, hard working club members by way of vehicle recoveries in the forest, shirt sales and the re-selling of donated items. Many of those funds also came from a Cruise-In event that has been hosted by Piston’s Wild club members at Woody’s 4x4 in October of every year since 2008.

A huge chunk, $4,000 of that total, was by the way of a grant from the 2010 BF Goodrich Outstanding Trails Program – a National Award, never before granted to a club simply for their dedicated efforts to open “NEW” 4x4 trails in the United States. We were so honored to receive this award and can’t wait to get to work on the trails and put that money to good use!