MoROC is holding it's first rockcrawling competition August 27. It will be held at Sayersbrook Bison ranch in Potosi, Mo.


4 classes
Stock, Modified Stock, Legends, Super-modified
Vehicle entry forms located at www.moroc.us in the Moroc Main under MoROC info.

8-12 courses to be run per class.
Courses will be marked A1-6 and B1-6, C1-6 and D1-6 depending on location. Some will have names.
Spectator favorites will be:
Pucker Hill, Turn Tables, Cliff Hanger, The wall, Steps to Hell, and Hangman's Notch

Concessions will be available and will be mobile.

Event is being held in the cave area and will have easy parking and short walking distance for spectators. Courses are in a bowl shape on a couple mountain sides. There are several locations where a spectator could stand in a particular location and watch 5 courses be run simotaniously.

Cost per spectator:
Adults $15.00
Kids ages 10-15 cost $10.00
Kids under 10 are free

Friday-pre competition
7:00-8:30pm Team registration and vehicle tech inspections
8:30-9:00pm Judges meeting


Saturday -Competition
6:00am-8:30am Team registration and vehicle tech inspections
9:00am Drivers meeting
9:00am Spectator gates open
9:15-10:00am Competitors walk the courses
10:00am Competition begins
Competition expected to end around 5:30pm

August 28th

Sunday -Trail run
8:00-9:30am trail run registration
9:30-9:45am drivers meeting
9:45am head for trails
Lunch about noon (bring your own lunch)
Trail rides over at 6pm.

Raffles will be given throughout the weekend. Tickets will be given to competitors and staff, but will be available to all.
Raffle prizes will be donated from: MoROC, AxleBoy Enterprises, Sayersbrook, etc.

Competitor info below...

Registration forms for the rockcrawling competition can be found in the MoROC main under MoROC INFO.

Note: there is a 100% payout in each class!
1st place: 50%
2nd place: 30%
3rd place: 20%

Stock: $25 per vehicle

Modified-Stock: $40 per vehicle

Legends: $75.00 per vehicle

Super-Modified: $100 per vehicle

Note: These entry fees are based on a one day only bases. The competition is only being held on Saturday, Aug. 27th, 2005. If competitors want to also participate in the trail run the following day, they must wait to register for that event on Sunday.

Each team in each class will compete on 8-10 courses. Courses are designed to be challenging for the vehicle in that particlar class. Stock vehicles will not be running the same lines as the super-modified class, or even the modified stock class courses for that matter. The courses will be designed to challenge vehicles, drivers, and spotters. We do not build the courses to break vehicles, we build them to test the teams to find the ultimate drivers and spotters.

Rockcrawling rules and vehicle specs can be found in the rulebook forum. Rockcrawling, unlike woods racing, is a sport where points count rather than time, but there is still a max time in which the team must complete the course.

What's the spectator situation like down there? How much of the course can you see from one spot?

BTW, be sure to post this over at mmor.com as not many of those folks make it here or to jeepthing.com


TEX

What about facilites and accomadations?

Campgrounds? electric? hotels? motels?

Direction from Troy, MO would be cool too. email me at twsnider@hotmail.com

There is primatitve camping available onsite. Camping will be available by the 101 course or by the lake. There is semi access to just above the event site...in other words normal parking area.

There are several Hotels in the area.Also you can use yahoo maps. This is the designation address:
Sayersbrook Bison Ranch
Route 2, Box 204
Potosi, Missouri 63664

Sleeping arrangements

There are also several motels located in the area. The closest ones are Potosi Super 8 and YMCA.

Additional Lodging
Potosi
Super 8
(573) 438 8888
http://www.super8.com/
Located at HWY 21 and HWY 8

The YMCA of the Ozarks (Headquarter Hotel)
(314) 241 YMCA or (573) 438 2154
http://www.ymcaoftheozarks.org/yozark/resFrm.html
Located on HWY AA 2.5 miles from the Event site.

Farmington
Days Inn
(573) 756 8951
http://www.daysinn.com/

Tradition Inn
(573) 756 8031

Super 8 in Farmington
(573) 756 0344
http://www.super8.com/

The cheapest of them is the super 8...well besides camping


As far as supermodified rigs, I don't know. I have heard from several potential competitors that they will be there, or that they were thinking about it, but until I see the pre-registration form in my hand, that is all heresay. There will be no garantees made because preregistration is not required for this event. It will be next year.


From Troy, you will take HWY 47 south to HWY 21. Turn right.
Go 10+ miles
Turn right onto HWY 8 2 miles
Turn right on HWY 185 1 mile
Turn left on HWY AA 7 miles
turn right into Sayersbrook Bison Ranch and the road will take you into the event site. All roads are paved until you reach the parking area. Parking area is car friendly.

What's the spectator situation like down there? How much of the course can you see from one spot?

BTW, be sure to post this over at mmor.com as not many of those folks make it here or to jeepthing.com


TEX

Very spectator friendly event. Parking is above the comp area, short walking distance, great spectator walking trails. As a spectator, you could watch up to 6 courses being run simotaniously.

If I'm heading South on 185 from I-44 (Sullivan), is that AA turnoff before I get to Potosi or after?

TEX

If your coming from sullivan down 185, HWY AA is 1.5 miles before Potosi on the right. If you hit hwy 8, youve gone 1.5 miles too far.

I know right where that is then, no sweat.

TEX

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btt

roll call for super-mod

There's a roll call started here. Feel free to check that out also.

http://www.midwestjeepthing.com/Forums/topic.asp?topic_id=28336&forum_id=8&Topic_Title=Roll+Call+for+the+Rock+Crawl+by+MoROC&forum_title=Trail+Head&replies=5&M=0&S=1

Can't make this one, maybe the next....

btt

2-days away.

still trying to get parts ready

Cool. We sure hope to see you down there.

what's the tire size limit for mod stock again?
MoRoc site says 37" but then says following WEROCK rules

mod stock is 35 and stock is 33

where would someone have found this information?

The best source for that kind of information is in the rules section of http://moroc.com/ 's forums. Other than that, you could always post there for one of the members to reply or you could email RoknTJ directly. If none of that pans out for you, PM me, I go by Butch on those boards, and I'll be happy to give you the presidents phone number if I can't answer the question myself.

I have seen both 35" and 37" limits for mod stock, I assumed it was 37'. Anyone know for sure?

In this particular format, Mod-Stock would be 35's & smaller.

Should spectators bring folding chairs? What about coolers, allowed or not? Planning to do something with my daughter tomorrow, so we'll see if I can talk her into doing this :)

TEX

Folding chairs are a great idea. Cooler are allowed but concessions will be available.

Your daughter should have a good time. I'm not sure how well you know the Ranch or the group hosting the event but these are very family friendly events. We get loud but we have a lot of fun doing it.

Never been to The Ranch, have met some of the Midwest & MidRivers Jeepthing folks over the years. That's about as close of a connection as I'd have. If you see a guy out there hanging mud bog fliers on windshields with his 4-year-old daughter, that means I made it down :D

TEX

Well if you see these guys http://caror.bravehost.com/ around, you've found us.

The ranch is a really cool place. Since they're all private trails they have their advantages and dis advantages. Good thing is they don't get all rutted out and torn up, bad thing is the require a lot more maintenance to keep them accesssible because they don't get the constant traffic that public parks get. In all, it's one of my favorite places to wheel.

Well, we saw a bit of it. My alternator belt broke in Sullivan, so I had to turn around & go back for another car. My daughter came along on the 2nd attempt. Got to the comp about 12:45 (estimated) & watched about an hour or so. My daughter thought we needed to be in a Jeep driving over the bumps - it reminded her of the rides at the fair :laughing: She got tired of it relatively quick, so we headed down to the lake pavillion for a picnic :)

TEX

It was a nice day. There were some "bumps" for all of us, but, we had a good time and I hope your daughter did too.