Trail Report February 22 SNOW ride at RC

It was a beautiful day with lots of snow. The drive to the park was a little "Hairy" at times due to the ice patches which started for me at the PA/MD line and continued all the way to RC. As a lot of you know in snow access roads can become winch hills and blues become easy Greens. Everyone who made it had posted up for a Green/Blue so we had two stock YJs, and one stock JK all on street tires, plus a few first timers. We started on 1a and pretty much stayed on the green trail. We ran Trail 2 (blue) to the frog hole then jumped over to 1b (green) to exit on D and then to E and the South Property. We hit Trail 25, we were the first to run it since the last snow, where we stopped to play in the Fire Pit then proceeded to S around Lake Christy. By this time the sun was turning the snow to slush and raising the "Slippery" factor. We stopped for lunch along the side of E near the 101 Trail. We then went to the gate and took the trail down to the Power Line. My thoughts were to let everyone play on the hills at the top of the Power Line. Bob (Hookedonthebay) took a couple of shots at them with his locked TJ on 35's as did YJ Dave with no success. At the top of the Tower Road YJ Dave's left rear tire decided it had enough for the day and went flat. After a quick change we ran down the Pole Line to the 3 Hills. The three Jeeps on street tires needed a little winching at the top. At this time we headed back to the parking lot to drop off those who had to leave early. The remaining four of us then went down past the old registration area and ran the green part of L3 back to A and then took the shortcut to C and ran the 3 Hills backwards to B then back to the Comp area. Some of us played on the comp course then load up, air up, BS an uneventful ride home.

I agree! Anyone who rode on Sat. for the first time owes it to themselves to make a ride at RC under normal conditions.