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The thread for the 2023 event is located at: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/graves-mountain-rally-syria-virginia-2023.213710/

Thank you to all that came! Hopefully, everyone had a great time and a smooth, uneventful, drive home... Please share any photos that you have and let me know if there is anything that we can improve upon for next year. Also, a HUGE THANK YOU to Steve, Laura, Khloe, Chuck, Rad, Euan, Allen B...

A few from tonight's feast....

A few more

Afew from the Field today...

Some photos from today... First photo is of the Burma Shave signs for the turn by the Syria Store...

Wednesday pre event arrivals and site prep...

Matt and I put the frame for the HQ tent together today before a brief afternoon rain shower. We'll put the vinyl on it in the morning. Got half the field bushhoged and the Porta John's delivered....

Technically, we are actually in the field behind the one across the road from the Lodge (used as the year round camping field). We enter via the Trout Pond gate across from Bohannon Road.. Just follow the 'Buema Shave' signs and you will be fine. In the past the frequencies for the...

It's too late to mail your registration to me....but you can still pay Chuck at the HQ tent upon arrival. If you're on the fence about attending for the whole weekend, come up for a day or two... (just see Chuck when you arrive...).

Since we are getting close... Remember that we don't have cell reception unless you are top of the mountain or go down the road five or ten miles (depending on direction). We do have decent WIFI around the buildings on the property so you can access the internet (and place calls if you have set...

The shirts have been ordered. Exact prices will be determined when I pick them up from the folks doing them... Hopefully, we will be able to provide them at the same price as last year. The design features artwork from a longtime friend and MV owner, Meghan Beckman... :)

Big shoutout to Chris Jenkins, Rob White and his son, and to Marshall, Bri, and Esrey Shelts, who came up for Peach Day at Graves and helped clear some more trails and replaced the picnic table up on top of the mountain.

Cleanup days on July 23 and 24... PLEASE let me know if you plan to assist by sending me a PM or by commenting so that I will know to be on the lookout for you. We will be meeting at 9AM each day next to the Graves Trout Pond (it's located in the field behind the overflow camping field with...

Our next trail preview/work weekend will be on July 23/24 (I hope to be on-site July 22...). It coincides with Peach Day at Graves Mountain so we can do some riding and cutting and then enjoy the festivities during the midday break on Saturday... Send me a PM or make a post if you can assist to...

So, even though I cancelled the official clean up...I need to give a big thanks to Steve and Matt from RockRidge Offroad Jeep Club for coming out and clearing a bunch of trails so that they are drivable over the 4th of July weekend... We've got a bunch more to do to get the trails all opened up...

Some of you will have noticed that I mailed the letters with the information letter and a blank registration form for this year last week on my way to a conference in Nashville... So, don't panic if you already sent in a registration, it's just easier on me to mail it to everyone...

Since I haven't heard from anyone concerning the work weekend over the July 4th weekend, I'm calling it off... Our first work/preview weekend will thus be later in July and will coincide with "Peach Day" at Graves Mountain during the weekend of July 23/24... Meanwhile, enjoy Celebrating our...

BTW: Chuck and I are still trying to figure out a theme and a shirt design for this year's event... Feel free to send me some ideas... If we pick yours, we'll give you a shirt and some goodies from the Lodge Cannery...

We will be having a work weekend (trail clearing/trail preview) during the days leading up to the 4th of July. We will also have a event preparation weekend shortly before the event in August. Individuals who can join us for four combined complete days of volunteer labor during either of...