Thank you everyone for attending the run.  Great day, perfect weather and no traffic.   

‘I drove past Burger Lounge at 555 pm.  I didn’t stop because I was trying to make it home before dark for safety reasons. 

We learned that Range Rover does not equal trail rated!  We saw several of them making extremely slow progress or parked because they had already broke down 

failed air bags, broken drivelines and transmission issues were some of the problems the owners told me about.

Saw a Toyota 4 runner. It was also broke down. He destroyed his 3rd member. And was running front wheel drive. 

For the day:

I arrived late to Georgetown and Justin had already called asking where I was. I told them to head up and I’d catch up. So we met at the spillway and got on the trail at 1040 am. 

We hit spider lake in almost exactly 1 hour.  But it took us almost 2 hours to get to buck island, where we stopped and ate. We made it to the springs in just under one hour. 

On the entire trail we were not held up by any rigs.  We crossed paths with multiple range rovers, a pair of jeeps, a UTV and an XJ.  

We were off the trail by about 415.  

In addition to everyone else’s updates, I broke a rear lower control arm/shock bracket.  I’m unsure where/when it broke, and I could have run most or all of the trail with it hanging off.  To get home I was able to strap the bracket back up and drive home slowly. That’s why I didn’t want to drive home after dark in case things went bad and I was stranded. 

‘So I’m now needing to get that fixed plus some other related stuff.  

Still a great day overall.