HaleYes
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- Clay County, IL
Friday is for Preruns by Trail Leaders and gunners. These groups need to stay small. You are welcome to run anything you want on Friday however the official event day is Saturday.
Be there when the gates open @ 9:00am on Saturday. You'll need to go inside the park office and pay for park admission. Park admission is not included in your WF fees. (More on WF fees as soon as we get exact dollar amounts lined out.)You should be greeted at the gate by a MWC member. This person will inform you where the registration table is and also inform you of how to go about tech. inspection. Tech inspection can be done while your rig is on your trailer. The tech inspector will let you know where to stage your rig. We'll likely have three groups staged. Hardcore, Medium (Orange trail) and Easy (Green trail). You'll just go and park your rig in line with the appropite group. Maybe more groups depending on the number of people. Tech Inspectors will also inform you of the minimum requirements that have been set by the respective Trail Leaders.
Once it seems that nearly everyone that pre-rgistered have signed their life away, I'll test my public speaking skills. We want to be on the trail no later than 10:15. The Badlands does require an orange flag to be on every rig. These can be purchased at the Badlands in their store or, you may wish to save some $$ and bring an bicycle flag from Walmart. The flags that the Badlands sells requires a 1/2" hole for mounting so, keep that in mind.
Lunch is a free-for-all this year. No set plans for lunch. Eat on the trail, run to town to grab something, whatever works best for you. In years past, after the groups run their trail, we usually gather in the quarry and then form a few groups to run some more trails. There's usually not any formal organization with this group forming so, speak up and ask....don't be shy! It's hard to tell when anyone will make it to the quarry to schedule anything formal and it's seemed to work in the past so we'll go with it again.
6:00pm will be the Banquet/Dinner/Raffle at the Attica VFW. This place is easy to find, right across the road from the MickyD's. Look for more specific directions later. This will be a catered meal by Robies again. As you can imagine, there's not to many gathering places in Attica for stuff like this. The VFW gives us a great deal on using their facility. The only stipulation is that we buy all of our drinks from them. Softdrinks and anything else. Be sure to let them know how much we apperciate them working with us, they've been good to us.:thumbup:
Once everyone eats, we'll do the raffle. After the raffle is over, we all head to the campground for the Legendary MWC campfire. The campground is right outside the gates of the Badlands.
Sunday usually everyone packs up and heads home. There may be some that stay and run a couple of trails, there usually is. If you're interested in running Sunday, speak up and ask around. You'll likely find someone or be able to talk someone into hanging out.
Be there when the gates open @ 9:00am on Saturday. You'll need to go inside the park office and pay for park admission. Park admission is not included in your WF fees. (More on WF fees as soon as we get exact dollar amounts lined out.)You should be greeted at the gate by a MWC member. This person will inform you where the registration table is and also inform you of how to go about tech. inspection. Tech inspection can be done while your rig is on your trailer. The tech inspector will let you know where to stage your rig. We'll likely have three groups staged. Hardcore, Medium (Orange trail) and Easy (Green trail). You'll just go and park your rig in line with the appropite group. Maybe more groups depending on the number of people. Tech Inspectors will also inform you of the minimum requirements that have been set by the respective Trail Leaders.
Once it seems that nearly everyone that pre-rgistered have signed their life away, I'll test my public speaking skills. We want to be on the trail no later than 10:15. The Badlands does require an orange flag to be on every rig. These can be purchased at the Badlands in their store or, you may wish to save some $$ and bring an bicycle flag from Walmart. The flags that the Badlands sells requires a 1/2" hole for mounting so, keep that in mind.
Lunch is a free-for-all this year. No set plans for lunch. Eat on the trail, run to town to grab something, whatever works best for you. In years past, after the groups run their trail, we usually gather in the quarry and then form a few groups to run some more trails. There's usually not any formal organization with this group forming so, speak up and ask....don't be shy! It's hard to tell when anyone will make it to the quarry to schedule anything formal and it's seemed to work in the past so we'll go with it again.
6:00pm will be the Banquet/Dinner/Raffle at the Attica VFW. This place is easy to find, right across the road from the MickyD's. Look for more specific directions later. This will be a catered meal by Robies again. As you can imagine, there's not to many gathering places in Attica for stuff like this. The VFW gives us a great deal on using their facility. The only stipulation is that we buy all of our drinks from them. Softdrinks and anything else. Be sure to let them know how much we apperciate them working with us, they've been good to us.:thumbup:
Once everyone eats, we'll do the raffle. After the raffle is over, we all head to the campground for the Legendary MWC campfire. The campground is right outside the gates of the Badlands.
Sunday usually everyone packs up and heads home. There may be some that stay and run a couple of trails, there usually is. If you're interested in running Sunday, speak up and ask around. You'll likely find someone or be able to talk someone into hanging out.
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