RMR was awesome. Definitely one of my favorite "semi-local" places I've ever wheeled at. Gave me some TN Adventure Offroad Park vibes while being half the distance (took us about 7 hours in the motorhome to get there - with an HOUR of that going 15-20 mph on the 17 miles of dirt road to get to the park at the end. The first night we got there, got set up, RV would not drop the jacks. JFC. luckily, slide doesnt have to be open to sleep but its still tight in there. Meet our neighbors who are from Cali and recently moved to Oklahoma and Arkansas, they're toyota guys so thats cool. One has a Ex cab on 37s and the other has a linked F-Toy on red labels. We go out for a night shakedown run and do Handicap which is rated a level 2. Definitely an easy trail for 37s+, but for example at Hidden Falls it'd more likely be a 3-4.
The next day, we get signed in with Great American Crawl, put in our raffle ticket, get our free shirt, and pick our group. Plan is to run Spring Creek and see how that goes. Takes us about 3 hours to go .5 miles. Jesus. Its rated a 5 and its a fun trail, but IMO not crazy hard. the hard part is there's a bunch of large loose boulders that roll and get stuck under the diffs and stuff and it's a pain to get freed up. We have two rigs break, and its just overall a really slow pace. We get out of there and back to camp for lunch. We talk about finding a different group, but decide to stick with it for the day. The yotas are all having zero issues, the ex cab takes some bypasses just to keep the flow going but overall everyone's experienced and it's good fun wheeling while we're moving.
Next we go out and run I think 7-up which is a 4 and the same two rigs that broke on Spring Creek break something different. Bummer. This time they pair up to head back to camp and we keep going. The pace is much better afterwards and we do Baby Wash, rated as a 4 but this trail in particular has many different lines at the bottom ranging from what I’d call a 2 all the way to 6. I end up taking one bypass on the lower section but it’s a fun trail. We come around and down I think Free Fall (level 3) back to where we started on Baby wash which is also the start of Lower Tackett which is rated as a 4. We run lower Tackett and I have to winch for the only time all weekend on the waterfall as I slid too far to the left and was wedged forward and backwards and couldn’t move at all. Bummer. Once I get yanked free we kept going and lower Tackett was fun but not super hard. I felt like we had my buddy Zandy riding along with us as we’d talked about that trail quite a few times over beers around the campfire.
Once we finished Lower we decided to go ahead and head back to camp for dinner. Our neighbors made some great food and graciously let us join in. I checked my propane and I’m still a little over half full on my 10G bottle after a full day of wheeling. Sweet. Checked over the rig and everything looked great. We decide to call it an evening early and went to bed as I’d not slept well the night before.
Up and early the next morning as usual, we slept much better so we were happy about that. The neighbor with the Ftoy realized he had a cracked cap on his 1410 ujoint on the passenger front stub. Luckily, I’d decided to throw some of my old race spare Ujoints in my parts pack out and had all the tools we needed for him to swap it out real quick. Sweet, glad we could help him out. If I had a gripe about the entire event it’s that I wish we would have had our group meetings at 6:30am and been on the trails right at daylight as we wasted a good 3 hours of nice cool daylight weather before we got going both days. But then again we’re both very early risers naturally 😂😂😂
We decided to roll with some of the people I knew this time, and it also looked to be a much smaller group. Perfect. They hadn’t gotten to do Spring Creek yet and said they’d cut over to the start of Bronco Buster after the waterfall so I got to do that again, and definitely noticed I was getting smoother and more comfortable with the manual and the passenger side drop diff which I haven’t had to deal with either in 15+ years. The visibility out of this thing is horrible but it sure does look good going down the trail. Bronco Buster was a fun little trail, easy at level 3. After that we ran over to BitchSlap and Sucker Punch both 3.5s and easy IMO up to Coopers pond and then all the way back to BabyWash where I retried my line from the previous day and walked it pretty easily.
By this point I was showing E on my first bottle and we were due back for dinner with GAC and the raffle. We hustled back and washed up and had a great BBQ dinner and our neighbors won some raffle prizes. We stayed up late drinking with the guys and then woke up early at 5am and got our stuff loaded up and outta there by 6. Made it home at 1pm with zero issues and got everything unloaded.
Overall it was a great trip and I’d say definitely a park for MINIMUM 40s. Most had 42s or larger. I was super happy with how the truck and I performed, the more seat time I got the more I figured out what it wanted. The leafs in the back still SUCK. Several people commented that the leafs look to be way too flat and maybe some new 63s would help but I’m just going to 4link it before the November trip to K2. I used one full 10 gallon bottle for the entire weekend which was better than I expected. according to OnX we travelled about 20ish miles and most of that was less than 5mph.
Here’s some pics.
I’ve also got some videos I’m gonna put into a YouTube video and I’ll share that link once it’s ready.
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