On Saturday April 13, a group of us met at Raucsh Creek to celebrate tax day by

going 4-wheeling. Our Sat group consisted of:

Rich Martinez, black JKUR, lead- OCC Member
Jeff Duesel, silver LJ- OCC Member
Scott Corliss, red XJ- OCC Member
KP Murphy, silver JKUR
Frank Oviatt, red TJ
*Mac Ramont and Matt Hennessy, white Overlander Grand

*Mac and Matty attempted to stay with the group on some trails but they made a wise decision to park and hop in other vehicles.

The camping area was very crowed as the KOH qualifiers were taking place that day and the race track/route used both east and west properties. This left only the northeast property available to regulars like us.

We all checked in and had a quick driver's meeting in the camping area. The plan was to stick to Green and Blue trials but the trails seemed a bit more difficult than the colors indicated. Here's our route thru the NE property.
N1 - N2 - F1 - X5 - N2 - N1 - Blacktop Rd. - T2 - 32- 35 - X4 - N2 - N3 - 37 - T2 - N3 - Tip Top - T6 - N3 - L2 - R1 - R - N4 - N3 - K - 39 (Scott and Frank only) - K - Blacktop.

Some highlights from the trip.

Jeff kept making strange references to movies that I don't think many of us understood. But in doing so he asked "can I be the key master?" Jeff, I hereby dub you "Key Master".

In places where all of us struggled to make it without spinning tires, stacking rocks, or careful spotting, Scott seemed to thrive and looked like a pro. Only when he climbed a short steep rocky section and came to a complete stop at the very wide open top of it by hitting the only obstacle left.....a teeny-tiny stump, did he have the look of shock and utter despair. The rest of us were laughing too hard to get get any good pics of that event.

Frank wanted a little more challenge so he started on Outer Limits by himself while we waited at the bottom. He missed a turn and ended up turning around and re-joining the group. While he was doing that some of us walked up Outer Limits from the other end to meet him only to discover that you can look down on the Ravine exit/Exxon from the top of Outer Limits. The view was unexpected and pretty cool.

Overall, we had a great time and challenged most of our stock or near-stock vehicles.