Ok, so I just got an email and we have a minor problem. Here is the email, verbatim from the owner of Durhamtown:
Hey Clint
I have a problem with the date for the rally this year
it is opening weekend of deer season and it is causing a ruckus
it was last year as well and it upset a few of them
this year I have more members and will be more of an issue
if you can move the event back 2 weeks they will have no problem it will be during bow season
and only 2-5 bow hunters
some of these guys like to hunt all day the first few hunts of the season
we hare moving the jeep park back across on this side of the river behind the church
you guys will also have all day to play in that area just not as many miles but more technical
if the date changes you can have both places
if we can make this work I will sure appreciate it
thanks mike
Ok, in the email Mike references there being 2 area for offroading at the park. The park where we have always gone (right down the road from the campsite) is apparently going to be not used anymore becuase the County where it resides wants $65K in additional taxes. People on the Durhamtown mailing list received this email a couple of weeks ago (again, verbatim):
NEW TRUCK PARK
We will be moving the 4x4 Off Road Park to this side of the river down behind the Church. We have some really long, steep hills and rocky soils in this area with deeper ditches and reveens. We can do
more enhancing than we currently can in the parks present location.
Taliaferro County wants $65,000 in extra taxes to ride over there so, this is why we are moving it.... Construction will begin this week.
So I had anticpated the offroading aspect to be in a different area this year and didn't consider this an issue. In fact, in 2008 we were taken to this area the first day we went out riding. We didn't go to this area in 2009.
But now, Mike is asking us to move the date back 2 weeks, which I am loath to do for a multitude of reasons. The major part is that many people have already requested vacation time off and would face some difficulty with managers who aren't very flexible and the second is that the 3rd or 4th weekend in October is about the earliest we can run the rally without fears of hot weather during the day. We do this weather at the end of October so it will be nice and cool.
In return for us moving the date back, Mike will give us access to an area we wouldn't have access to otherwise. This is his carrot.
So what's the opinion?
