The Lair

It’s so easy to break the tires free in the rain now if accelerating into a turn from a stop, like a right hand turn. Gotta be careful.

That’s another big reason I avoided it

 

supposedly Harrop says that was an “old design” and it doesn’t do that anymore, but I can’t see paying the extra to find out. Plus I’ve already got an ARB twin on board, so might as well make use of it for a front air locker.

 

Looks like the Spartan locker will take my monies. Maybe.

 

What's the intercom set you're referring to? I would love to get that link!

 

Did that thing at least have full skids?

Also sorry about your shaft. What obstacle?

 

I hope so for his own sake, I can’t remember anymore. I think so.

and I honestly don’t know. This was my first time running it “backwards” and I’ve never noticed this obstacle before. But it was a short trail with like 4-5 difficult spots vs just one thing. It took me like an hour to get through with a lot of frustration. I was too in the zone to get any pics of it unfortunately.

 

The short offshoot I only ran forwards I think. Couple entrances if I remember, one retarded steep technical rocky spot and a couple easier ones. It might be the one that ends with a down hand right turn. It's been a while so my memory is failing me. I gotta get back there in those conditions, the dryness probably lets you try fun shit. How was the bugs and heat?

 

Yeah that sounds about right. I had to make a sharp left turn to start it and it’s entrance was a nice little shelf of a rock I had to climb. Agreed on the dryness, we got lucky that the rain held off. Wouldn’t have been able to try all the things we wanted to try. Bugs were bad but for the most part they weren’t biting, it was just gnats flying around in our faces. How far away is it from you?

 

6.5 hours or so. Wish it was closer.

 

Yes. Skids on skids.

 

I hear you there. Rausch is 7.5 and aoaa 8 for me. Total bummer.

 

Yeah my wife and I have the intentions of moving south in the next few years so I'll probably put my revisit to Potts on the back burner. I'd like to explore more of NH, VT, and Canada before I look to the south for new wheeling spots again. Honestly at this point I'm so sick of Rausch and AOAA lol.

 

That’ll be cool, I’ve never explored up there. I’m still enjoying rausch and aoaa since I’m just now starting to run the black trails, so still plenty to explore. Before I didn’t have anyone to do it with but now I do. I’m heading up there in a couple weeks actually.

 

Nice, enjoy it! I still haven't run Beaver Creek. Honestly aside from 20, cemetery, and a bunch of black off shoots on 18 and Tata's I haven't run many blacks either. 1C, 5 and O have been on my list for a while as well as shoot the moon. Also all the little black hill climbs down by stair step. Hard part is being a manual, I burn the shit out of my clutch on the blacks. And the end of 20 honestly is terrible. It's a complete bash fest. It stopped being fun and we bailed at the second intersection of 12b if you start from where 13 and 20 are across from each other.

 

I have to admit, the old gurl looks might fine in these shots! Maybe it's just your phone camera lens that needs to be cleaned

 

Just saw you are in the Norfolk area... What's housing and taxes like down there?

 

https://www.norfolk.gov/FAQ.aspx?TID=48

Edit: Not sure how that compares to Jersey...but there is real estate tax, personal property tax, which are city and county specific...then there is the State sales tax, plus a 0.6% more that is applied to the 757 region and Northern Virginia (aka NOVA) that is supposed to go towards transportation funding. So in the 757 area code and NOVA general sales tax works out to 7% and 12.5% for prepared food sales. Then if you go buy things in the Williamsburg Historic Triangle cities/counties they've added an additional 1% sales tax for "tourism".

Probably more than you wanted to know...but that's half the battle.

 

Thanks.

 

No worries, added a bit of a tangent there...but from that last trip I took through North East...Jersey definitely beats everyone for gas prices, but of course we can't pump our own!!!

Speaking of that...I had to teach kids in College how to operate and fuel their vehicles when they came down to VA with their vehicles!!!

 

It's hot and humid af too. Plus hurricanes.

Would not live there.

I recommend that people keep going further south, to FL.