TRAILS/WEATHER CONDITIONS

It's Friday...we can officially start thinking about the weekend now.

We had NO rain overnight. As of 7:35 a.m., it is a partly cloudy and overcast this morning. NO rain thus far today. We imagine that the sun will come out and it will warm up today, but we'll just have to wait and see.

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
late afternoon/overnight-- 1 inch total
* Tuesday--NO RAIN
overnight--NO RAIN
* Wednesday--NO RAIN
overnight--NO RAIN
* Thursday--NO RAIN
overnight-- NO RAIN
* Friday-- NO RAIN as of 7:35 a.m.

As you can tell, it has been a pretty dry week in Bulcher thus far other than the 1 inch of rain that we got earlier in the week. But that 1 inch of rain is long gone by now and did no more than settle the dust for a while. So as a result of the dry, warm conditions, trail riding should be good. No puddles to worry about. Much like last weekend, riders may experience some dust though.

The next question you're probably wanting to know about is how is the creek? This week's dry, warm conditions has allowed the creek to further dry out. However, if you refer to last Saturday's Photo Frenzy blog...conditions in the parts of the creek down by the river are still the same. Because there was so much water backed up in the creek, it was just extremely saturated. Therefore, it is just taking the creek a long time to completely dry out. Therefore, as stated before, you may ride in most parts of the creek. However, once you get into parts of the creek that are closer to the mouth of the river, these areas it is NOT advisable that you ride in because they are still very muddy & you risk getting stuck in QUICKSAND. Furthermore, the creek is very much crossable (in parts of the creek that you can ride in) and as a result, ALL of the park's trails on both the North and East sides are OPEN for general riding.

For those of you wanting to know about the river...it is still bank to bank, but it has really gone down a lot. We imagine that it will continue to recede as our warm weather continues into August.

Well that is a recap for everyone. Overall, the outlook for this weekend looks bright. However, since it is currently cloudy and overcast, we will keep you posted on if we have any rain today...but other than that, what are you waiting for?

One last update for everyone as of 5:30 p.m. this evening...one word describes today...GORGEOUS! The weather ended up being PERFECT. NO rain, sunny skies...little warm...but hey, after all it is July. So if this weather stays the same...we're all in for a great weekend!

Hope to see you all out on the trails in Bulcher this weekend. We will be OPEN both Saturday & Sunday with hours each day of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Happy Trails,
RRMT, Inc. Staff