Anyone have any pics or info about the vroc event this past weekend?

i heard that it was so insane most people left sunday morning and didnt even run. the course was supposedly to hard and every one was breaking.

i could have been misinformed but i hear it was beyond difficult

I was there yesterday. It wasn't beyond difficult, but it was challenging for most of the guys. Things were driveable, but rig after rig would point out due to cone locations. Lots of guys were a bit overmatched. Some of the experieced guys drove pretty well. I know lots of my club took pics and video so maybe that'll get posted. One guy in my club drove the stock class and was doing well, but still couldn't avoid cones. I think it just needs a few bigger names and different lines for the different classes to excite it up. It was also a bit unorganized and the obstacles were crowded, but that will be corrected in time. All in all it was a good place and setup, imo.

I think the rain had a lot to do with the difficulty of the obstacles. It POURED down there all night on Friday. I think the stock guys were a tad outmatched. The first obstacle for the stock guys was almost impassable without winching. AFAIK, only one competitor had completed a course with zero points (Chris Pearson in mod). Only ONE unlimited rig even competed.

I competed in the stock class. Yesterday, I'm pretty sure everyone pointed out on 3 of the 4 courses that we ran. It was a bit frustrating to sit around for 8 hours and only run 4 courses... 3 of which I pointed out on, but I got -5 on one. :flipoff2: (Spotter ride along bonus) Plus I made it to the top of the last obstacle that I ran even though I took out every cone on the way! I decided not to run today since I still had to drive my competition rig home on the interstate! Plus I wanted to get out of there before dark. I watched for a couple hours today, and it looked like only one of the 5 courses was completed by stock class trucks. The event would have been much more fun if there had been a little more organization so that there wasn't so much of a traffic jam on every obstacle.

Anyone know the final standings?

Here are some pics a buddy took

http://community.webshots.com/album/312292500tsouWt

Ary

I'll have a couple of pics up later...All in all I enjoyed it. I was only out there for a couple of hours today. Around noon everything seemed to die down.

Did the yellow and silver CJ that stripped his R&P yesterday get it back together in time to compete this morning? or did he drop out?

He got it fixed and ran today.

it was a fun weekend with lots of muddy rocks. here are a few pics
http://www.myjunkinyourtrunk.com/gallery/VROC?page=1

i was driving the green tj. Bottoms Up Rock Racing

Brian Smit, the yellow and silver CJ, won the modified stock class by 6 points. Second was a Toy and third went to an XJ.

Ary, Thanks for all of your help yesterday!! Sorry you couldnt make it back today, it was BEAUTIFUL!!!


The weather rocked...all those unlimited guys who went home b/c of the rain really got shafted on some good wheeling and $$.

Congrats Brian and Kat! Glad to hear you guys got it all back together in time. When I got back last night I looked at my workload and decided to come up early this morning, unfortunately I then proceeded to get wasted and our power went out last night, so I didn't wake up till 3pm :laughing: :D

Ary

Very wet on saturday! The trails were a little extreme in some places for all the rigs to be running the same obstacles. ie #9. It was a good weekend. Team Twisted Intentions placed 6th in stock and tied for last in stock mod due to sheared ball joints and knuckle on #4.

Congrats to all. Hope everyone got home safely.

ie #9
That course was insane :eek: We were the only ones in modified to attempt it from what I saw, we tried backing in then pulling forward to complete it, we got pushed sideways and had it standing on the back crossmember, with no way to go but backwards(right into the tape 2 ft behind us). Everyone in modified 40'd on the first 3 courses saturday, then we scored a -5 on the 4th course.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid163/pc8d434b5adc312234ce01c5959e1ed28/f497356a.jpg

Kat I know you took some pics.... So where are they?

yeah, #9 was a hard one. We didn't even get staged in the starting gate. I kept slipping down the hill trying to get lined up. There were some nice rolls on #3, myself included. If anyone has footage of that, email me. I'd love to see it from the outside. All in all it was a good weekend. We took home 3rd in the modified class. Congrats to Brian of Team Unemployed on his well deserved win!! Keep the pics coming guys. If anyone has pics of my XJ, red with yellow cage and hack work, could you please pm or email me. I'd like to get some.

Thanks.

Good weekend overall. We ran the stock Class, i spotted for Half Ass engineering(White YJ from WV). The rain sucked but made the courses very interesting. A couple of the courses were fairly ambitious for the stock class, 9 and 2 come to mind. All stock competitors pointed out on , 2, 9 and 5 i believe. Course 6 was great we just picked the wrong line. The cones were tight on all the courses but the out of bound tap was really tight on a couple. It was our first event ever and the wet courses were made it a blast, totally level playing field. I was bummed when we went out of bounds on #2 but after watching the Mod class I didnt feel so bad, they couldnt get up very far either.

It was a blast watching the Mod guys go off #3. Bottoms up also was fun to watch you guys beat the hell out of the TJ but never gave up. FlexJ, i was the guy sitting at the first gate when you were trying number 9 and the front kept sliding down the hill. Nice XJ, the exo held up great on #3.

Thanks to Chris for putting on the event and thanks to all the judges and vendors. It was a great time and we will be back in November. Everyone was nice and helpful. Chris's power was out yesterday so he didnt know when he could update the web with points and final standings.

The wind sucked, our tents got trashed and we had to sleep in the truck all weekend. Thanks to the SV4W guys for letting us use the grill and giving us some food:beer:

yeah, #9 was a hard one. We didn't even get staged in the starting gate. I kept slipping down the hill trying to get lined up. There were some nice rolls on #3, myself included. If anyone has footage of that, email me. I'd love to see it from the outside. All in all it was a good weekend. We took home 3rd in the modified class. Congrats to Brian of Team Unemployed on his well deserved win!! Keep the pics coming guys. If anyone has pics of my XJ, red with yellow cage and hack work, could you please pm or email me. I'd like to get some.

Thanks.
It was great running with you guys all weekend and thanks a million for the nitrogen bottle(even though our shocks didnt hold air the second day :rolleyes: )

It was great running with you guys all weekend and thanks a million for the nitrogen bottle(even though our shocks didnt hold air the second day :rolleyes: )

Any time Chris. See you guys at NEUROC.

Standings are posted on the site...

www.xjsrule.com

Here are my few pics http://offroadxtreme.com/v-web/gallery/

Congrats agian Brian, FlexJ and others, had a good time. I will have some video hosted on my club's sight(muddevils4x4.com) in the next couple of days.

Bigwoody, man you kicked ass on #2, i havent seen that much swamper smoke in a long time. The MJ kicks ass man. That front 60 took the abuse on thats for sure :beer:

If anyone has any good shots of our team, Bottom's Up Rock Racing (green TJ thats cut up) if you can email them to me at mhappick@ycp.edu thatd be great. We need some good shots to put on our website.

Congrat's to Holly and Jason for their 5th place finish in the stock Class
.....

And welcome to the Peak Empire Extreme Offroad Team....

Ted

Thanks for the welcome Ted! :D

It was tougher than I thought it would be. With 2-3" of rain and the stockers and unlimiteds taking nearly the same lines on every obstacle.

Definitely an experience! And 5th place isn't so bad for our first comp. :D

Here was our rig:
http://offroadxtreme.com/v-web/gallery/vroc4_3_05/DSCF0172

The competition was a blast! It was great to see that many dedicated people out there in the cruddiest weather! It rained buckets and winds blew up to 60 mph, but the teams hung in there and gave it their all! It was our first competition and we had a great time! Not only did we have a blast wheeling, but it was really cool how we all hung out and swigged beers together!

Eugene's spotter said (with a southern drawl) it best, "we may talk trash now, but ya'll can come on over and drink beers with us later"!

I think the most exciting run was when the red/yellow Cherokee launched off the cliff into the stream, rolled onto the roof, then rolled right out of it onto his wheels to finish the course!

Thanks a million to Ted at PEAK EMPIRE EXTREME OFFROAD and to RAUSCH CREEK for addicting us to competing!!! And let's not forget to thank Chris, the trail marking sadist, and Heather Packard for having us lunatics in your backyard!

-Holly



AFAIK, only one competitor had completed a course with zero points (Chris Pearson in mod). Only ONE unlimited rig even competed.

Don't forget us Dan, Marshy Creek went one run (double waterfall hill climb trail) with zero. :)

I agree with you two, those courses were a little sadistic for stock class, but it was still an absolute blast. The sportsmanship was definitely excellent.

Team Marshy Creek, what size and kind of rope were you all running. We snapped our brand new 5/16 amsteel on #5. It was the third pull, winched up #8, winched over Kyle and winched up 5, then snap. It broke 1' from the fairlead, in the air. Not rubbing on anything.

I will agree its highly addicitve.

FWIW, we zero'ed the creek#4 and Cone Killers -1'ed #4.

Not sure.

I stole my spotters rope off her jeep. :grinpimp:

Team Marshy Creek, what size and kind of rope were you all running. We snapped our brand new 5/16 amsteel on #5. It was the third pull, winched up #8, winched over Kyle and winched up 5, then snap. It broke 1' from the fairlead, in the air. Not rubbing on anything.

We were using Myakka Outfitters Blue Diamond 100' 5/16 rope. Ours took a beating...It all happened so fast I wasn't sure if it was actual rock rash or if it happened when the Jeep slipped back about 6" on the slick rock, maybe a combination of the two? The cover was in place on the boulder but as we winched it moved. PEAK EMPIRE hooked us up with a new line, Viking 125'. Can't wait to give that one a try.

If it was the break I saw, your syn winch line snap caused a bit of controversy. Some said that the rope must have been defective. Others said it snapped because the syn winch line was hooked to a tow strap.... The only good thing is that it broke while you were on the side of the hill, not the 80 degree hill you were just winching up!!!! I would definitely send that one back to Amsteel to have them check it out and see why it snapped and have them replace it. You guys gave the trails hell! Nice driving/spotting!

Thanks. I know you all wheeled your butts off as well. It was our first event too. See you all in November:D

It was pulling hard and that section of rope had no rash on it. The rear axle was hooked on a rock, but we have winched with cable with the jeep in a much harder bind than that. The line hook was attached to a clevis on the tree saver. I dont know why that would cause it to break. It snapped a good 25' from the hook/clevis. and at least 16" from the fairlead. Jesse is calling amsteel or the vendor today. I know when i get some for my rig it will be 3/8's. I hope amsteel stands behind their product.

Oh well at least he didnt blow my spool up, we had to pull mine out on friday and put in his jeep.

That's kick ass.
I'm glad you all did well.

With Jess as a wheelman and you spotting, I figured you all would do well - even though it was your first comp. I was wondering more if the jeep would hold together more than anything. Jess has been pounding on it a lot more in the last year.

We really had a good time, and I did beat on it a little this weekend. I'm just glad we made it through the weekend, and was really surprised at our finish.

Don't forget us Dan, Marshy Creek went one run (double waterfall hill climb trail) with zero. :)

Dang. Didn't see that. Where we were standing, we couldn't see the top part of the course very well. Was it on day 2?

Despite the weather, I had a great time. We definitly didn't expect to win, and after breaking on the first obstacle, didn't expect to finish. I had a great crew to get my Jeep back together and Applachian Offroad hooked me up with a new ring and pinion in order to run Sunday. Thanks.

BigWoody- Thanks for the show!



As far as the courses; from a modified stand point, they were close to perfect for dry conditions. And it was a good thing there were so few rigs on Sunday, else there would have been more of a traffic problem.

congrats Brian... you gonna be in TYellico for the swap meet?

brain thanks for letting us use your air. You guys did a great job and so did everybody else. Glad we got the ring and pinion in the toy fixed as well. Had a blast but GOD I hated the weather!
I was the spotter for the blue toyota in mod.
jeremy and jesse great job!
congrats to tater in stock for taking the win in the green toyota! great show!

Guys and Gals! Great jobs! Great show! Sorry for the crappy weather. We changed things at the last moment and it screwed up the traffic on the courses. We had planed, and organized for, different routes. Some in each class doing the uphill courses day one and some doing the downhill. We changed that during the monsoon Saturday morning. We decided that we would run both groups in each classes on the same courses to make it as fair as possible (meaning all would be doing uphill or downhill). We did not want to have half of each class going downhill courses in rain and the others going uphill. Sorry for the confusion, but we did have it planned otherwise. We tried to get all of you an audience and make it so that the spectators would be able to see all from one location and not have to walk all over creation. I have competed in NEUROC before in the stock class (it was awesome and we will compete again), but it sucked that all the spectators watched the super class instead of the class I was in. This past weekend, it seemed really nice that the crowd applauded EVERYBODY on each obstacle that was challenging - more chalenging than we thought with the onslaught of rain we recieved. I apologize for the rain and for the brief chaos on the order of obstacles due to trying our best to make it fair for each competitor. We really apreciated the support of our sponsors, competitors, and staff! You guys ROCKED!!! We look forward to seeing all of you again!

Chris

Yea, many thanks to Chris n Heather for an awesome weekend. This was the first competition I've entered, and it was more of a "Hey, I got a spare weekend, let's go wheeling" than anything else. I realize now I should have prepared a bit better with both my Jeep and my plan of attack. The monsoon definitely made the courses challenging, but it was an absolute blast. I don't think i've used as much skinny pedal on the trail in the last three years than I did saturday and sunday. Sunday on course 1 the second waterfall, I used a bit too much and broke BOTH front upper controls arms, right in the center of them. Since I was lazy and didn't want the hastle of repairing them, I just watched the rest of the day, but that was after I gave it hell on the hill climb. It wasn't until after that that the breakage was realized, when I had so much axle wrap my driveshaft was binding. Congrats to the winners, and hope to see ya'll back in Crozet again.
-Alex
stock class red TJ

The pics link posted by Ary is mine. I also have two videos of rigs either trying to drive out of a roll or just on their side. If anyone wants to see them I can either send em to you, or put them on another site. Hope the pics came out alright, there wasnt many places to get close enough for good pics.

leach

What a great time..... We could of gone with out the Friday night Rain and the Saturday morning DOWN POUR.. I knew the courses would be much harder then planned after the rain, but its awesome to see what your rig can do if you just try.

The courses where tuff, but not undouble on an avg day... The 8" of rain over night made the course slick.. Tater (Green Toy, who won stock) seemed to dig some nice size holes before getting up the courses. This made it very difficult for the rest of us...

We (Engineered Chaos)... Timed out on 3 of the 9 courses... The time out on course 1 could/should of been avoided, 9 we pulled in an out, 2 we couldn't get up (thanks again Tater)... We Pointed out on the last cone on course 7, pointed out on 8 and 5 when we pulled cable, we scored a 12 on course 3, scored a 7 on couse 4 and we got lucky on couse 6 with 21 points....

Course 6 was very doable.... I just my driver get a little unbalanced..


In the end... It was great time.... There was a lot trash talking going on, but also LOTS of helping each other out... Lending tools, parts, team members, and when the lights when down there was an awesome Fire and lots of Joking going on...

Thanks again Chris and Heather

Chris

Course 6 was very doable.... I just my driver get a little unbalanced..


Shit man, he was unbalanced from the beginning. :flipoff2:

I guess we still owe you for the PS fluid . . . . Take it out in beers? Call it even? :D

Here's (http://www.wcav.tv/news/headlines/1437092.html) a link to some local media on the event.

Was a great time... I've got a bunch of pictures and small videos. does someone have a place I can host ~100 meg? Here is a link to much smaller versions of the picures:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/gabemerrill/VROC/DSCN1237.jpg
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As far as the syn winch line snap; from my point of view it was obvious that the protector sleeve slid off the rock and the line was against the bare rock. It looked like the break happened where it was contacting the rock.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/gabemerrill/VROC/DSCN1157.jpg

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just wanted to Thank Chris again for putting on this event on his property. that is a pretty sick back yard and i know i'm jealous of that kind terrain right out your door.

thanks and i was happy to be a part of it as a sponsor.

As far as the syn winch line snap; from my point of view it was obvious that the protector sleeve slid off the rock and the line was against the bare rock. It looked like the break happened where it was contacting the rock.



Which line are you talking about. Marshy Creek(red YJ)Broke on #8 or Ours(whiteYJ) broke on #5???

The one I saw was Marshy Creek on #8. More links: :grinpimp:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/gabemerrill/VROC/DSCN1198.jpg
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nice pics

Shit man, he was unbalanced from the beginning. :flipoff2:

I guess we still owe you for the PS fluid . . . . Take it out in beers? Call it even? :D

Nope, that PS Fluid was worth about............... 7 Points... :shaking:

more pics...http://homepage.mac.com/nicoleyates/PhotoAlbum77.html

i'm working on uploading more. dialup sucks.

more pics...http://homepage.mac.com/nicoleyates/PhotoAlbum77.html

i'm working on uploading more. dialup sucks.

Gee, it's not too hard to figure out who you were rooting for!!!
Good pics, keep them coming.

Hamy.

Gee, it's not too hard to figure out who you were rooting for!!!
Good pics, keep them coming.

Hamy.

there's 2 pics of Greg in there too! :p

I'm trying to get some more uploaded, but my dialup sucks! :(

Here's a lot of good pics:

http://tinyurl.com/6yshr

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bs7p/files/

VIDEO....... http://muddevils4x4.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=268#268

Thanks Gregg. Nice vids, Amy.

:smokin:

Chris

Hi all,
Does anyone have video of kone killers on trail #2(first trail for group 1) on saturday teal and black yj.

Thanks,
Marc (Kone Killers)

More video's of VROC at www.mountainjam4x4.com ENJOY!!!!!