Congratulations TINA (UPNOVERS Girlfriend) She was the winner of the GPS.

The show was a great time and we got to meet alot of people. Pattey will be in to give out more info but I wanted to thank everyone who came by and especially Mudslinger, and 79cj (and brad) for hanging with us and all the help they gave at the tent.

This year's show was awesome!!!

Okay. It's late and I am going to just give you the stats for now...tomorrow I will post up "tales from the track side" (sorry, I'm in a goofy mood and still have to tell you the story about what happened when we left Tom's!!!!!)


Anyway. We made a total of $377 between selling our club t-shirts and the raffle tickets for the GPS.
(we also made $40 selling water on saturday, making it $417)

$200 in shirts goes toward more shirts, as we sold out of 2 sizes. Some will be in reserve for more outreach stuff.

The $177 raised from ticket sales is for the Supporting Member picnic, as the Supporting Members approved the purchase of the GPS. For the S.M.'s ....I will have a post up in the S.M. Only Forum and we can decide when, and even if we have other ideas about what to do....so keep your eyes open for that.

This upcoming trail run *july 25th and 26* is a donation run for TABITHA'S HOUSE in Harford County. We should have a great turnout for that. Bruce from RC is letting us post it up on the Rausch forum and keeping a bin in the sign-in house so others can bring stuff too. HOW COOL!!!!

Anyway. I will post more tomorrow.

The Rock Raiders enjoyed hanging out with you guys and we appreciate your help Friday and Saturday night with our canopy.. You guys made the show that much more enjoyable.

I was very impressed with your booth and you guys got alot of new prospects from the professional look. I look forward to seeing and meeting all the new members.

I was very happy when Chris called and said we won the GPS. I have been putting off buying one for months and now I know why....

I just have to remember next time that when I hand Tina money and ask her to buy some raffle tickets that I specify whose name to use...


We are very blessed to have friends like you guys........

i didn't get to meet you when i was there. we got in at about 9:30ish and left a little after 5.

Sorry we missed you.

Well my money situation should be lots better for next year, and it doesn't look like anyone wants to buy my Waggy, so maybe next year I'll bring it down and register it so we can set it up by our tent. That will get some attention for our club

You totally should, Jimmy...you have come to the tent both years!!! You, Robby, Joe and Bradley, & Tom and his family. Samantha and Dennis stayed both days this year and camped with us. Angela and Jeff and Michelle and George. We couldn't do this...ANY of it, if it weren't for all of you guys and the other people that help us out and support us.

This is definitely YOUR club!

I wish I could have made it, but that was the weekend of the East Coast Xterra Challenge.

ECXC was a great event this year. Pattey knows some of the players, so I will give her a brief run down. Tom (Brooklyn X) and his team won the challenge. One segment of the challenge involved running trail 5 -- the organizers expect that segement to take an hour and half for an X. Tom's team did it in under 30 minutes. At least two front diffs were destroyed this weekend -- one second gen blew the gears on the pole line hill climb during the competition. A first gen (Romeo?) busted the diff case on the stump coming out of Lake Christy. Several people (including one in the group I was leading on trail 12) trashed their t-bar anchors -- which led to some redneck engineering to get them off of the trails. The Saturday night door prizes were good this year (I won a Warn 30' recovery strap and a Craftsman multi-meter), and the party was excellent. Brian (baf06) got the honor of being Wendy 2009 after he fell (face plant) into the river while trying to relieve himself -- and was carried to his tent where he passed out. Also, you may have run into Chris (Picachu) at the jeep show -- he was heading down there on Saturday (He is the big guy with the little fu man chu beard).

k_enn