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Pre-Ride
Reconnaissance |
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TCCRA
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Pre-Race
Recon of Oak Creek in Jean, TX |
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Date: 04 MAR 03 |
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TCCRA
Race Schedule here.
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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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Then
Click here to get long range weather from AccuWeather.
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Below
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OK here's a map of the Jean course, camping area, and Pee
Wee track.
It's in color. You should be able to print it at your home
and bring it with you. Don't forget that you can set your
printer ( in page setup or print setup ) to print draft or
low quality. And you'll need to set your printer to print in
"landscape" view.
Oh yeah, it should print on a 8 1/2 x 11 page, but just in
case you can set your printer ( in page or printer setup )
to "fit to page".
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The
Main course is 12 miles long. And the Markings are
fantastic...especially for the first 6 miles!
Pee
Wee course is 1.5 miles long
Experts
ride first.
He
has a tractor if ya need it.
Pick
up your trash...this land is private and doesn't belong to
the promoter!
I
will, as always be shooting video...smile, wave, wheelie,
crash or whatever...I'm gonna try to get a plane and fly
over a few times on Sunday...so you know what to do!
HWY
380 is under construction just west of Denton, and the
sign said it'd be closed from 6am to 7pm on the 4th
(Sunday).
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| Directions |
Jean is a small town in Young county Texas, and is not
far from the Jack county races we're all so fond of. So the directions are
kinda the same.
First ya gotta get to Jacksboro. From The
northern parts of the metroplex, try 35 north to Denton, then 380 west, of
course you could take 114 west to Bridgeport, then 380 west. I understand
that the 287 / 81 north, thing works out well to get up to 380 as does 199
out of Ft Worth. Once 380 gets close to Jacksboro, ya gotta make a
little right hand jog ( 380 and 281 share the asphalt for a couple of
miles into the town ) then straight on through town, onto 281 / 114
north / west. After about seven miles north of town, 114 splits off toward
the left, that is west, and continues on to Jermyn, then Loving, and
finally Jean. In Jean ( not before ) you'll be lookin' for FM 1769. Turn
left (south ). The road you want is about 4.5 miles down that road on the left.
It's called Grubbs Hill Rd. And you'll turn left, the
track is about .5 miles on your right.
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| Description |
Description: The town of Jean, originally called Lamar, was settled in 1875
by rancher S. B. Lamar, who built a schoolhouse and a store there. His
son, James T. Lamar, became the first postmaster in 1906, and renamed the
settlement Jean, after his sweetheart. The last time we used this land, "Sweetheart" is
the word I would've used to describe the area. The dust was down due to
the rain that mornin' , the tight sandy treed areas were cut out, & it
was a helluva track. A good long start, lots of room to pass, which means
lots of room to race! 'Cause single file in the trees is NOT racin'!
I'd say to bring an intermediate tire, and you might want
to make an effort to prevent flats, there are 1325
mesquite trees around the area in which we'll race.
There are a fair amount of straights, a couple of wooded
sections, and last time we ran through some
mowed down corn ( I guess ) fields. I thought it was a good track.
When I rode it on Saturday it was great fun.
Soil: Did I
mention the sand? Oh yes, you'll find some hard packed black dirt out
there as well...but you'll have to look hard to find it. There will be
some hard flat ground that we have to flatrtack around,
and there are a few rocks...don't say I didn't warn ya. I
tried sand tires on Saturday, but there is enough hard
flat stuff that my sand tires felt uncomfortable in some
of the turns.
Elevation: None. Oh
wait, there was a creek bed that we ran through ...and a ditch if I
recall. Actually there is a hill on the property, with loose sand &
rocks mixed in for excitement. Not real big, but ya gotta pay attention.
Dust: Bring your
dust mask. unless it rains of course.
The Pee Wee track is just
about 1.5 miles in length and is located on the north side
of the camp, between the camp area and the entrance road.
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| Camping |
Camping
is gonna be in the big flat field that we did the barrel
racing in last time. 38 acres by the GPS an fairly
flat...no I meant to say fairly LEVEL. IT was ( as you may
recall from last time ) a plowed field, and as such is, as
Don Shaw put it "rough as a cob". Don't haul ass
across the camping area in your big rig...you'll break the
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| Spectator
Rating |
Both
the east and west end of the camping area have a gate and
I think the gate on the power line end ( where the start
is, will be OK to go out of and watch the race once it's
started. On the other end, the NON power line end,
is also a gate and you should also be able to go out and
find your hero down this way as well. The land is fairly
open, so you should be able to get around. |
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| Hotels |
The
flyer lists the Pipeline Hotel so I'll list that one here
first as well. (940-964-5695)
Cedar
Canyon Lodge, 120 Kiowa Trl, Graham, TX 76450,
(940-549-8999)
Gateway Inn Motel, 1401 Highway 16 S, Graham, TX 76450,
(940-549-0222)
Rodeway Inn, 1919 Highway 16 S, Graham, TX 76450,
(940-549-8320)
I
generally stay at the Gateway in Graham.
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| Hours of
Operation |
This
is private land so it'll only be open during normal race
weekend hours.
Gate
opens at 4 PM on Friday.
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