I wish I knew where to begin!
If I leave you out, it's not intentional, believe me.
First, thanks to everyone who showed up. I always worry someone will make an epic journey and then not have a good time. So we hope you had a great time.
Second, thanks to SCSG-G4 and Wreckerman893 for their MKT presence and performance-and all their help: Green Gator, Woody Wood, Monica, MDmorgan and MDmorganwife, Bamalady and MDmorganwife's parents and anyone else I am forgetting. The amazing amount of work you guys do allows the rally attendees to spend their time buying goods from our vendors and playing on the trails. I fully believe a big part of the SSGR's growth is due to the MKT providing tasty meals to our rallygoers at a great price.
Third, thanks to Papabear and all the CAMO crew for supporting the rally in such a big way. I am pretty sure we are the only SS rally that can say we've had armored vehicles.
Papabear and the guys also saved the day going to pick up Ron's deadlined M819 and dragging it back to his house.
Fourth, thanks to everyone who brought firewood.
Fifth, thanks to Squirt Truck and Dumpster, who ran our trailrides. They put a lot of work into checking out the trails and making sure that our big stuff would fit and was safe. Squirt and Dumpster put a lot of effort into the rally this year and I appreciate it.
Sixth, thanks to Carnac who took on the formidable task of keeping count of vehicles-he had to go out in the field every morning before people started leaving for trailrides and get updated counts-and make sure he wasn't counting the same vehicle twice. Carnac also provided support in numerous other ways and without him and his input, the rally this year simply wouldn't have been this good.
Seventh, thanks to all our vendors who showed up this year. We had an entire row and vendors and I hope it was worth all their time, effort and cost to come down.
Eighth, thanks to Mike who owns Durhamtown and all his staff. Mike has taken a great interest in our rally and all of his staff is just absolutely great. We really appreciate their hospitality. This thanks goes to Lauren Clifton as well.
Ninth, thanks to Ferroequineologist for bringing out clintogf's newest deuce.
Tenth, thanks to flyusn99 for bringing me a new transmission to replace the blown up one in one of my winch trucks.
Eleventh, thanks to BlythewoodJoe who brought out some nifty lights that helped keep part of the MKT and campfire areas lit.
Twelfth, thanks to Tennmogger and all our commo guys for attempting to put together a usable commo system to get between camp and the trailriders-I know they encountered some frustrations is getting a usable system in place and we appreciate their work.
I wish I had taken some pics, but I was so busy the whole weekend that I never had a chance to pull the camera from the truck. So please post pics everybody!
In closing, I hope everyone had a great time. I got to meet a lot of new guys and people I've never met and I got to see a lot of great looking MV's.
This week I should have the date set for next year's event and I think Carnac is going to run an "after action report" thread where we can discuss what went right and what needs improving.
Keep your eyes on the SSGR11 website:
Welcome To The SSGR Page!
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