TRAILS/WEATHER CONDITIONS

Happy Friday To Everyone...We have already received numerous inquiries about the weather via email and telephone, so we know that many of you are trying to plan your weekend accordingly....so we will do our best to give you the most up-to-date & comprehensive information in order to assist with your weekend plans.

First and foremost, we received NO rain overnight. As of 12:15 p.m. today, we have clear, sunny skies, and NO rain thus far today. Looks like it is going to be a beautiful day....just warm temperatures...but then again, that's a given for July in Texas.

Just as a recap, leading up to today, here are this week's rainfall totals that we pulled off each of our daily blogs from the week:

* Monday--NO RAIN
overnight-- NO RAIN
* Tuesday--NO RAIN
overnight--NO RAIN
* Wednesday--NO RAIN
overnight--NO RAIN
* Thursday--NO RAIN
overnight-- NO RAIN
* Friday-- NO RAIN as of 7:15 p.m.

********* See a pattern here with this week's weather conditions?

So as you can tell....its been a very DRY week here at the park. You are not going to have to worry about puddles. So now that we have emphasized that....we do not have any photos to post today...but we will have photos to post tomorrow evening. We didn't know if the photos were helpful....but lately we have been receiving a lot of feedback that everyone loves the photos...so we will try to keep them coming now that we know that people like them. We haven't taken any pictures of anything this week, because we haven't received any rain.....but again, we'll have some posted tomorrow.

But to address another question we have been getting..."how's the creek?" You can definitely ride in parts of the creek. It is also crossable currently except in the few areas closer down to the mouth of the Red River. Due to all the DRY & WARM conditions this past week, the water level in the creek is receding...but still everyone must remember, just because the water in the creek area is receding doesn't necessarily mean that you can ride in ALL areas of the creek (i.e. areas where there was a lot of water standing before)....the creek (closer to the Red River) is still drying out and therefore, parts of the creek are still muddy....and you want to be sure to watch for QUICKSAND in the creek area where large amounts of water was once standing. Quicksand will be inevitable in these areas until the creek is completely dried out.

Onto the next question we have been receiving..."how's the river?" The river still has a lot of water in it and it is still backing up water into parts of the creek area. As a result, there is still no sandbar in sight. But all being said, the river has actually gone down a lot. The pictures we took of the Red River a couple of weeks ago (that are posted on our blog), was actually the river at its peak...so it has done nothing but recede since then. But then again, to most of you that don't see it on a daily basis, it still is going to seem like a lot of water...but to us, its just a slow & gradual process that will take some time.

So with that all being said, ALL of our trails (both on the North & East sides) in the entire park are OPEN & easily ACCESSIBLE because the creek can be crossed easily especially by the main old campgrounds down by the sand pit area and by the creek by the 2nd gate area.

Therefore, in summary, per our posting, we are looking at riding conditions being really good this weekend. The only thing will be the warm temperatures...might get a little warm in the heat of the afternoons...but you'll just have to ride thru the creek to cool off.

Here's everyone's evening update as of 7:15 p.m....according to the news, many of you in the DFW metroplex area received some rain this afternoon/evening. This is NOT the case at the park. As of this evening, we all enjoyed a beautiful day at the park...sunny, clear skies and NO rain thus far today. Hopefully the weather will stay this pretty on through the weekend. If so, we all should be in for some good riding.

** Just a reminder...we will be OPEN tomorrow, Sat. July 21st, and Sun. July 22nd with hours of operation each day of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m....Hope to see you all in Bulcher this weekend.

Happy Trails,
RRMT, Inc. Staff