Extreme Roc Rigs

2010 National Scramble Ride

Posted on 27. Jun, 2010 by xrr in News

The 2010 National Scramble was held this past weekend at Golden Mountain ORV park in Sparta, TN.  This year marks the 7th year of the annual ride.  Each year the National Scramble is held in different areas of the country.  Last year the event was held in Hot Spring, AR and in 2008 it was held in Clayton, OK.   The Scrambler Owners Association is a small group of CJ 8, or Jeep Scramblers’ owners that all share the same passion for the long CJ.  Extreme Roc Rigs donated a AmSteel Blue synthetic winchline and aluminum fairlead as one of the event’s door prizes as well as helped with leading trail rides during the weekend.  The event officially started on Thursday June 24th and ended Saturday night June 26th.  Each day the owners were divided into three groups for trail rides at Golden Mountain and surrounding areas.  The groups were divided into Extreme, Moderate, and Scenic.  Thursday’s ride for the Moderate and Scenic was interrupted by thundershowers, which made the park extremely treacherous.  Friday Extreme Roc Rigs joined the group and was asked to lead the Moderate group’s trail ride.  Since the trails were still very slick we stayed on the easy trails that morning and as the mud slowly dried we started enjoying the more difficult trails.  Golden Mountain is an very nice place to have a large group meet because of the facilities.  The trail systems offer something for everyone however when is rains the trails become VERY slick because of the amount of clay that makes up the soil.

Saturday morning after the group picture we joined one of the two moderate groups to try out even more of the trails.  We had about 6 vehicles in our group, as did the other group.  We rode around until about 1 and broke for lunch.  After lunch a small group of us went back out for more trail riding until about 4.  At this point we started loading up our gear in preparation for the night’s events.  Saturday night the SOA provided a BBQ dinner from Bobby Q’s Restaurant and live entertainment from Iron Horse Bluegrass Band, both the food and entertainment were excellent.

Every night door prizes were given out, with the most highly sought after prizes being reserved for Saturday night’s drawing.  After everyone had a chance to eat and visit, the big door prizes were given out, as well as the overall awards for the weekend.  These awards were a huge hit and themed such as “Worst Break”, “Worst Paint Job”, “Longest Road Trip without a Trailer”, and “People’s Choice”.

Door Prize Winner

The winner of Extreme Roc Rigs door prize was Tim Shepard of Baltimore, OH.

Extreme Roc Rigs would like to thank the Scrambler Owners Associations for allowing us to join them during this event.  This group of individuals are a unique and friendly group just like the Jeep Scrambler.

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