With
about 20 runs leaving each morning, there has to be a way to get everyone
out of the fairgrounds in an orderly fashion. The list to the left shows
how they got folks like Eric (photo on the right) out to the trail bright
and early. Here he takes on the second obstacle on Tabasco Twister. 
Eric
took on some of the roughest obstacles with a flare. The short wheelbase
of the Samurai lacked the breakover advantage that the longer wheelbase
vehicles had when scaling ledges like the one on the left. But it had more
of an advantage in the tight turns. The long wheelbase vehicles had to try
this one (on the right) at a slight angle to make it out the top, but then
they run the risk of dumping the vehicle on its side when a wheel drops
into a hole. A Unimog did just that a few minutes before Eric got his
chance at the obstacle.
The
Abyss was a bit harder on the zooks, as the ledges were set just the right
distance apart to make the front and rear tires attempt to climb verticle
ledges at the same time. You have to get lucky that a tire catches an
outcropping to get up this one, or stack rocks like many of the other
participants. This kind of takes the challenge out of the whole thing. And
it is why the local club looks down on those that try to build a highway
of boulders. 
