15th Annual Graves Mountain Virginia Rally August 30 - Sept 4, 2023

[CGarbee]

15th Annual Graves Mountain Military Vehicle and Vintage 4x4 Trail Rides and Rally
Labor Day Weekend, August 30 through September 4, 2023
(early arrivals are ok, just let me know...).
A fun filled weekend of trailriding, parts-swapping, and fellowship in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia open to all Military Vehicles and to Civilian Vehicles 25 years old and older. Newer vehicles may be allowed by permission of the organizers.
For More Event Information and Registration, See: https://gravesmountaintrailrides.com/

Website is "mostly" updated for this year...

Meghan is working on a shirt design...
Paper copies of the event flyer, registration form, and Trail Crew information, went out in the USPS mail today to folks who have attended in the past or otherwise got on the mailing list...

Need more information?
Check the website, ask me directly, or post here ...

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you in August...

[T. Highway]

This sounds like an awesome time for all, I'm figuring that next year we will be able to participate in this event. Please make sure to take plenty of pictures and post them here please.

Regards,
Bert

[CGarbee]

Graves Mountain Trailrides and Rally... Event "preview" and a reminder that it is coming up soon!!

We are planning on having a trail clearing on August 26-27 (the weekend before the rally). We'll plan on meeting at the Syria Store at 8AM each morning...
We already managed to get the big stuff off the trails on Graves Mountain, so what we are going to focus on this time is cutting the branches and brambles that are hanging over the sides of the trails...
Bring your loppers, pruning saws, and hand trimmers...
Extra points if you bring your own vehicle to get up on the trails so that we can split up and go after more than one at a time...
Even more bonus points if you have a tracked skid steer with an enclosed cab (so that we can try out a trail mower...).

Call (leave a Voicemail), text, or post here, if you plan on helping out.

You still have time to plan on attending the cleanup/preview and/or the event itself!

Info and the after-action photos may also be found on the event website at:
gravesmountaintrailrides.com

If you call me, leave a message...

[CGarbee]

It's been long enough that I have almost recovered (aka, I have dug down through the pile of stuff that was waiting for me to handle when I got back to the office...)...

So, a huge thanks to all the attended and especially those that helped put the event together (Chuck, Rad, Steve, Laura, Khloe, the Graves, Robert...)...
We'll do it again next year with the same basic plan, at the same time...
If you have suggestions for next year, let me know.

Meanwhile, I have posted my photos, and a few that I collected from here and there, on the Flickr page that I use to host event photos (linked from the event website)...
The direct link to this years' photos is: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124394777 ... 121385474/

Thanks again to all, and I hope to see everyone again next year!

[T. Highway]

Thank you for posting all of those pictures. The weather looks like it was perfect and that you had a great turnout.

Regards,
Bert