Memorial Weekend Trail Run 1999 - Clayton, OK

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Memorial Weekend Trail Run 1999 - Clayton, OK

Postby richardekirby » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:45 pm

I was going thru some old videos and found these. This was one of the last great FWD-FWD trail runs held at Clayton, Oklahoma. Clayton is a small town of about 700 people who welcomed us into their town for two huge events each year, the Memorial Weekend trail run and October Trail Fest. Due to land restrictions and other red tape, the event was discontinued a few years later. Around 400 vehicles and 1000 people would show up to each event. There was one red WD21 on the Parade video about 20 seconds into it. There were a bunch of Sammies and a couple Toyota trucks also.

I lost the original sound during conversion, sorry.

The first video is of the parade from the fairgrounds, thru to the other side of town and back. The locals would stop what they were doing and watch all the rigs go by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoVAtoT_uU4

The second video is of the infamous Three Stage. It is the area's premier obstacle. My buddy (Armadillo) is the first in the video and made it up with no problem. He has even backed up it on a dare. I imagine the second guy saw him go up it and thought "That looked easy, I can do that".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LcMzCkBT0

The last video is us wheeling in the area. There is terrain for most any rig. Old logging roads criss cross the area and rate 1 to 2 on difficulty. There are a lot of category 3 and 4 trails and some 5+ trails, such as the Snake Pit, which is a creek bed with Volkswagon sized rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DamN5WSiCZ4


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Postby fleurys » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:38 am

Nice videos...

The second one is a good example of the difference between locked and not locked.... keep them coming..

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Postby richardekirby » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:17 am

fleurys wrote:Nice videos...

The second one is a good example of the difference between locked and not locked.... keep them coming..
Thanks.

Yeah, my bud's Jeep is not over the top, but it's solid. It's locked front and rear and he's owned it for 19 years (7yrs in the video), so he knows how to drive it. On the other hand, I was driving Avalanche's Bronco 2 POS because he had never been on a big trail run before. That thing had no power and kept dying on inclines.


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