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Pre-Ride Reconnaissance  

Crafton  

TCCRA Race #

Pre-Race Recon of Tate's Ranch in Crafton, TX.

3007

Date:  02 JUN 02

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 TCCRA Race Schedule here.

 

You can view a Mapquest Map by clicking the Map below, once there, zoom and print as you need to.
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Click the radar map below to go the The Weather Channel for this track's weather forecast.
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  And click here for long range weather from AccuWeather

 Below are some specific area maps, & photos. 

 

Click here to go back to Crafton page one.

 

 

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 OK You have seen this before. Here I try to give you a short photographic tour of the track using pics of some key areas, interspersed with shots of some of the typical track sections that you will see on the track. I've compressed the photos as much as possible so that you with old outdated internet connections can still view them in about 30 seconds...I hope. Just click the pic. Enjoy.

campStrt.jpg (177990 bytes)

Upper left "V" Camp area, and  the start goes left  through those trees by my fourwheeler.

 

firstrn.jpg (273222 bytes)

So the first turn is here. Sandy loam, about a hundred yards to turn 2. There are low hanging tree branches in the turn...as you can see.

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Then you turn right onto singletrack and into the woods for a while. It's not too tight but it will be single file.

wateruts.jpg (270786 bytes)

I warned you that there may be some...moisture there.  The ruts in the deep woods tend to hold some water...a little.

 ditchNarnd.jpg (109204 bytes)

Before long you come out of the woods for a second, onto some sandy loam, enough to make a quick pass if ya got the nads.

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This is not an uphill, it's a downhill...looking backwards.

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THIS is what it looks like from the top...then more woods.

tpcl3.jpg (217274 bytes)

Then one of the "connector" straight areas. I call it a connector, because the track is made of short patches of woods, connected by little straights like this.

upOffRcks.jpg (622948 bytes)

Oh yeah, there are three or four areas where there is a short section of rocks, it's not on the whole track, just these short sections.

pucker.jpg (253261 bytes)

Don't hit your head here. The tree comes down, and if you look in front of my front wheels, you see a root that bounces you up...into the tree branch.  There was an "X" there, you can see a piece of it...it's on my Arai now.

 tpcl4.jpg (183635 bytes)

More open "connectors"

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...and Mesquite groves...with thorns on the ground...

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...connected by a long straight, with a dip in the middle...with water in it...

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Some of this...

tpcl1.jpg (165980 bytes)

Oh yeah, you can't see them very well in this picture because of the grass, but there are a couple of areas where the ground is littered for about a hundred yards with...cow bones, I have no idea how they roost or what they do to a tire...but there's lots!

wateruts2.jpg (286069 bytes)

And of course lots of this stuff...

creekUp.jpg (288518 bytes)

This is looking backwards into a creek crossing...we do it at least twice.

connector.jpg (336035 bytes)

Mesquite grove connector straight. Fast. Fast. Fast.  But no tellin' what's in the grass, be careful.

Well that's it...mostly. Have fun, and don't bust your ass.

  

                  

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