Re: Offroading during National DML Meet

From: rwerning@wi.rr.com
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 17:03:13 EDT


In article <11937.199.64.0.252.1112819648.squirrel@janor.ath.cx>,
dml@bleazard.net ("Jason Bleazard") writes:
>
>
> On Wed, April 6, 2005 9:57 am, Walt@Walt-n-Ingrid.Com said:
> >
> > BBQ days seem to be much shorter for some reason.
>
> It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that we usually
> stand around until about 3:00 in the afternoon going "I dunno... what do
> you want to do now?" "I dunno... should we hit the trails? Should we
> have lunch? Or should we stand around and look at each other's trucks
> some more?" :-)
>
> I would like to have at least some kind of schedule mapped out for the
> Colorado meet so this doesn't happen too much. It's good to have some
> lounge time to hang around and not do much of anything, but I don't want
> to be heading out of camp for a day trip after the day is already half
> over.

As an example, the HUMMER event I attended at Paragon Park, they had a couple
"leads" that took different days & different events. Some of the H1 owners
wanted to do extreme offroading, some of the H2's wanted more tame events. The
leads got there a day or two in advance and prescouted the trails they were
taking, so they were sure they would fit the goal of the event.

They even had box lunches worked out for people who paid in advance, so you
didn't have to mess with trying to get a lunch together. We'd just park at a
certain spot and the lady who did the lunch run brought them up to us. Most
mornings we were on the road by 8am to get to the adv park, and didn't get back
until after sunset.

I could see something along that line working well for the Colorado meet. Not
sure what all happens at the events, but if you have some guys who want to run
the 1/4 mile, someone could take the lead on getting that organized, a couple
people could figure out trails for the offroaders, etc... you get the picture.

- RJ



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