Uwharrie July 2001 Review

Well, I'm still finishing the writeup, but here is the video that I took. Please if you have and pics or video to add to this, e-mail me at tad@planetisuzoo.com.

Both videos are the same, but the first one is smaller and thus easier for people on a modem to view:
56K Real Video (10 Meg)
High Bandwidth Real Video (50 Meg)

The run started out on Friday afternoon with Robert, Matt (from Indy4x) and myself (with Dan Russo as my co-pilot) doing basically a pre-run of the 3 hardest trails. There was talk of the trails changing quite a bit from last time, so we thought that we would run them to see if we would have any problems leading a group of mostly stock trucks through them.

We found that Daniel had a few of the larger rocks that had stopped people in the past had been moved, and the trail would be passable for everyone. Here are 2 pictures of Matt and myself playing on some of the rocks:











(Full Size Image) On Saturday morning, we split up into 3 groups. Dan and I let one group, which half way through turned into a run of just Troopers. We met one of the other 2 groups and the VX in our group joined the other group, and a Trooper from the other group joined ours. The run was fairly uneventful, and everyone enjoyed a couple hours of beautiful scenery. The 4 Champaign colored Troopers that were together in the middle of the group had the few people that we passed doing double takes. With the exception of a few scrapes on the underside, everyone made it through without any excitement.

My sister drove down for the morning from Burlington and met us on the way out to the trails. We drove the twin tan Troopers and when we lined up for pictures it surprised a few when she told them that she was my sister. For her, and several others in the group, it was the first time off-roading. By going slow and with a little bit of spotting everyone had a good time and was more than willing to go out again that afternoon.

On Saturday afternoon we all ligned up in the field near Arrowhead campground for a group picture. A few trucks were amoung the missing, but almost everyone who was there for the weekend was available for the picture. After a little confusion everyone lined up and the pictures were taken.

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There are a couple more pictures below, and some links to pictures that other people took.

-Tad
Ken Blanchard's Pictures
Don B.'s Pictures
Adam's Pictures
Robert Smith's Pictures

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