You can definitely feel for folks who have 22” street tires! I should have gotten some pics of all of the mud pancakes on them from just the wet farm roads!

 

Great stuff @GrouseK9

Any trail pics? Looks like a very fun mud-fest on hand.

🎶🎶...the sage in bloom,
is like perfume.
Deep in the heart of Texas. 🎶

 

I am so insanely hyped up looking up at these pics! Keep em coming for those of us on the coasts!

 

$20 per person for the food. Best $20 ever.

 

Heard from JLR folks that the trail loop was closed yesterday because folks were getting stuck

 

A




A little dirty. The ridge grapplers did fantastically.

 

Some trail pics. I’ll upload more later today.

 

I'm seriously surprised if folks got stuck on the loop around the various activities. Not sure what it was called. They were all farm roads at worse with mud. Some in fields had some wash boards on them. If someone got stuck, I'd wager a lot that they had street tires. I did the "Skills Course" on one of their Defenders. QUITE fun and the guide/coach was awesome. It was seriously muddy and one of the Defenders ahead of me got HARD stuck. But they were winched out before I could catch up and rubber neck. They were FAST. The biggest pita was the huge delay in checking folks into the loop. It was like applying for a home loan, or felt that long. I was seriously bummed because I wanted to go back one station to watch the winching talk (On next post I was at #5 wanting to go back to #4), but it was only one way. 30 minutes later I'm back at the entrance and with 20 Defenders waiting to "check into" the road, I called it quits and went back to the main spot. It was (is) pretty cool but that border patrol to get onto the loop is INSANELY inefficient. Met a ton of great folks. Great food. LOVED the free barista and the smokehouse. Looking forward to more fun. BTW - the rain was perfect. It happened mostly beforehand and made the trails "interesting". Otherwise, hard packed dirt in this part of Texas would have been a yawner.