Post Thanksgiving Ride - Sunday 11/25

on my way out... somebody called me at 5:05 but had their phone number blocked so it was "anonymous" and I didn't answer. if you're on here, unblock your ID and I'll answer.

home... I led a low-mid Blues group. myself, red_jeep00 (and friend) and a refugee from another group (XJ with 4" lift and 31s). We started off playing around Trail 1 with the gully climb, then did a couple of the hill climb loops where I quickly got the first damage for the day (smashed the rear bumper). We ran the rest of 1a and backtracked up the Pole Line to B so we could run Trail 2. Halfway to the Frog Hole, we pulled over to let a group of Yotas pass us and they said "stay out of the frog hole!", one of them had a high water line as proof. Right after they passed us a "pfffft!" was heard and steam spewed from the lead truck... Blew a plug on the block and all the milkshake/oil shot out all over the trail (I hope they cleaned it up). We gave them what spare oil we had in our group and started moving again. For fun, we stopped to measure the Frog Hole, approximately 3.5 feet deep with a 6" layer of mud at the bottom.

We took the shortcut over to D to pck up Crawler Ridge where we found Subvet/Naughty and the Maryland crew with another XJ refugee (5-6" lift and 35s). We hung out there for a while and ran the back side of Crawler Ridge (aka, posed on the rock slabs) before doing some redneck engineering to stretch out my rear bumper... We then took D/E over to the West Property...

On the West property, H took us down the mountain to Trail 11 and we hopped on 12a to get our feet wet on some real Blue terrain. We ran all of the 12abc sections before heading over to Trail 10 and looped around there for a while until we switched onto 18b. Shortly after merging onto 18b we came to a clearing, err, a clear cut hill side! We had no idea where the trail was supposed to go, so we cut across the hillside up to H (after pulling me out of 2' deep bulldozer tracks) and took the Power Line back up to the exit. We stopped at J/H/E to check on another group, a YJ had swamped the motor and they were trying to get the remainder of the water out. Nothing for us to help out with, so we gave them directions back to the parking lot suitable for flat towing and left.

After a quick jaunt up the hill climbs on the Pole Line, we made our way over to the Comp course to pose/play around a bit before leaving. another fun day at RC!

Jerry, at the rate your goin your jeep will end up lookin like mine

Do you have a date for the next ride ? "MR Trail Boss"

Quote from J-Man

Jerry, at the rate your goin your jeep will end up lookin like mine

Do you have a date for the next ride ? "MR Trail Boss"

not firm yet, "Mr Bad Influence". most likely Jan 26th.

fine with me as long as it's not on the 8th