* It rained - HARD! I showed up late Friday night and there were lines of RVs and campers at Trask Co. Park. There were EZ-Ups everywhere and one good campfire, that the weather was doing its best to put out. Frank's antics with gasoline kept it heaping (You're a crazy man, Frunk!
) The rain didn't let up but once that I know of at the lunch stop at Trask Store.
* I didn't sleep all night due to the pounding of rain on the trailer roof I was sleeping in. At 6ish in the morn, I got up and people were actually signing up to go ride! I said to myself, "Self, WTF?!" My plans were to cancel the riding portion of the event, everyone just hang and head to the provided lunch at the Store, come back, do a few games, hand out prizes and call it a day. Hell's fire - people were milling all around ready to ride! I ended up cancelling the 'riding' portion of the event, however I directed everyone to a short, fun part of the North Loop to 'get their feet wet'. This will be a fun ride to write about. (Yes, I'll get off my duff and do more ride reports!) A bunch of folks sojourned out into the hurricane.
* After a few miles, most peeps had their fill, but some kept going. Unreal, and definately hardcore! Due to the 'official' riding being cancelled, my sweep dudes were thankful, so we sat around and drank coffee and benchraced.
* BBQ'd burgers awaited everyone at Trask Store and the rains actually lightened up a bit as everyone fed their pie hole.
* Then it was a parade back for playing cards pulled from a can for points. (I'll post them in the DS Series results soon) and assorted other trophies. Steve Simon won the $100 bill, the lucky dog!
* We were STOKED to see so many great friends show up from so far away like Lisa and Herman Hill from Montana, Chris Culbertson from Sacramento, etc. Most awesome! Kelley Kinser even RODE his KLR from Seattle and back - basically in a firehose!
* HUGE, MAD PROPS FOR ALL OF YOU THAT SHOWED! I'm telling you, this REALLY helped out and made an event that was destined to be in the red, somewhat less painful financially. I gotta say I/we had a ball nonetheless and you all are CLASS ACTS! We hope you get a chance to get out and try your rollcharts at a better-weathered time.
* Of course, many thanks go out to Dan Hatcher - he's the man! Also to Dan's girlfriend Dawn, Juenemann's (Milo, Warren, Dale, Nick), Jim Dukes, John Hughes, Frank Noe, Walt Koch, Clyde Kersting, ODF's Kelly Foster, Curt Schonbroud, Trask Store, Billy Toman, and of course Beaverton Honda-Yamaha.
Okay, we've had our bad-weather event, now we get five more years again of awesome weather, so see ya next year! Oh, I would sure love to get photos of the event that I could use for a future article.
Ride on,
-Tom and the Gang
PS: I've updated the OMRA Dualsport Series points with Rat Dog results.
Thanx for taking the pix, Dan!)
Glad you made it down, but you're other monkey is cuter. Oh well it was good seeing Vince anyway. Thanks for the bevy at the campfire, must not of had too much as I wasn't sore anywhere in the morning. 
It was two days before Sharon even came out! She was probably lost in there and couldn't find the door 
It was good seeing you guys again. I wished you had slowed Dive down a little bit for the average on Sunday so he wouldn't of been so 
