Such a great trip (thanks, Jay, for putting it together) with awesome people.
My quick summary:
I left Augusta Wednesday night just after 6 PM, and with a 2 hour "nap" in Harrisonburg around 1:30am, met the group in time for breakfast and groceries at 8am Thursday morning. Had a solid day of trails in perfect, dry weather.
These rocks are killer. They are super tacky and provided tons of traction, with huge boulders and slabs littering the 3,000 acre park. On a slightly negative note, the blues suck. There are just enough large rocks that you have to go slow, but they're small enough that there is zero challenge and really just an annoyance. We learned to stick to primarily the red trails, the blacks, and blast between obstacles and trails on the greens. Most of the reds contained rock gardens and multiple routes. There were a few where you could literally spend several hours and hit multiple lines. Right next to the front office was a competition rock crawling course. We played there Thursday and again Friday evening after the rain/flood went away. (Ok, so not really a flood, but it rained all day from 2am until around 5:30, with torrential rain, wind and thunderstorms around 4. All of us were soaked head to toe while trying to hold the pop up tents down. Luckily, 30mph gusts dries stuff quickly)
Friday we went to the Yuengling brewery for a tour and lunch somewhere in town to kill some time while it rained. Cool place, lots of history. I'll include a few of those pics too.
Friday evening after the rain shit-show, we go to the obstacle course and are surprised to see it's mostly dry. We can hit all the same lines as before, including a few steep slabs that would have been impossible down here after that much rain. The park dries amazingly well and the rocks still grip like they did Thursday.
Saturday we roll out in the morning during some FJ convention. Those guys are weird... guessing it just a Toyota thing.
By the time we pull out of the parking lot Sat morning, its literally dusty. We head to the other side of the park and continue to hit every red trail we can, which is easy to do because they have this awesome free GPS map to download that tracks your direction, speed, and location on the map. We crush some trails, eat lunch, continue to crush trails, head back for gas and to the other side of the park, then crush more trails.
I'm sure I left some stuff out, and I'll add pictures later.
Carnage report, from what I recall:
Tony- nothing
Sam- nothing
Jay- snagged brake line end of Saturday (pretty much nothing)
Patrick- nothing
Justin- nothing
Clark- fuel pump overheated pulling into parking lot Saturday evening when we were quitting (so... close to nothing)
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Topic: Rausch Creek 2019: Stories, Lies, Pics, and Carnage (Read 964 times)
