Happy Friday To Ya...
If you are reading this, you are probably already thinking about the weekend & where you want to go ride ...well you're in luck...
It's PHOTO FRIDAY here on our blog so you will have the most up-to-date coverage in order to make your weekend riding plans.
As of 8:20 a.m., we received 3 tenths of rain overnight. Currently, we look out & its raining right now. Don't know if the rain has set in for the day or if in the afternoon the sun will come out and it might clear up...its Texas...so who knows...it could be doing something one minute and then the weather could be totally opposite in the blink of the eye. We will keep you posted on the current weather...and hopefully provide you a noon update on current rainfall totals.
But prior to leading up to today's rain...yesterday we took several pictures at the park so you all could observe the conditions for yourselves. Hope you enjoy....
This first picture is taken of one of our trails at the park. When riding yesterday, we found on average this is what the majority of the TRAILS look like currently.....in good riding condition.
While we found the trails to be in pretty good shape, we did see puddles especially over in the 2nd gate campground area....we don't know if its just the type of dirt that's over there that makes it more sloppy or what...but we saw these 2 puddles standing. We also noticed that it was somewhat swampy in the low lying grass areas over in the 2nd gate area. The old main gate campground area; however, there were no problems with...we didn't see any puddles standing over there at all. Hopefully this will address the questions we have been receiving in regards to campground area conditions.
Above are several pictures of the sand pit area down by the old main campgrounds. As you can see...there is a big puddle by the bowl area...but other than that...no problem with being able to ride in this area...our sand just soaks the water right up.
These two photos above are in the sand pit area looking out towards the first creek crossing. As you can tell, the creek is definitely crossable here. While the Red River is still flowing bank to bank, a tremendous amount of water in the creek area overall has receded. The water level is still high to the first curve in the creek down by the mouth of the Red River, but in all other areas it has receded. But due to the creek still trying to dry out, you are only able to ride in the creek up until the 2nd gate area because the creek is so muddy. In fact, in this picture, you can see that even by the first creek crossing, it is muddy. So the moral of the story might be that since its raining now and who knows how much it will rain today (we'll have to keep you posted) we think it’s a given that you will probably get muddy at the park. You might not get muddy necessarily on trails, but in the creek area if you decide to ride thru the water crossings some.
These last two pictures are of the creek by the 2nd gate area. As you can see in one of the photos...a lawn chair in the distance. Yesterday was a gorgeous day to bask in the warm, sunny weather and many enjoyed the beach like atmosphere while visiting RRMT, Inc.
Therefore, all those picture were taken yesterday afternoon and provide you with a glimpse of the conditions leading up to today. We will watch the weather for you today and post at noon on the rain conditions & how much we received. Let's keep our fingers crossed that it won't be much. Hopefully the sun will come out and we'll dry out the rest of the day, but you never can tell.
But 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-- 3 tenths
* Tuesday--NO RAIN
overnight--1 inch & 4 tenths
* Wednesday--NO RAIN
overnight--NO RAIN
* Thursday--NO RAIN
overnight-- 3 tenths
* Friday-- 8 tenths as of 2:30 p.m.
But we again wanted to emphasize that at this time, ALL of our trails are OPEN because since the creek can be crossed, all of our trails on both the east & north sides can be easily accessed.
WE WILL FOR SURE BE OPEN THIS WEEKEND, SAT. July 14th & SUN. July 15th, but keep checking our blog for weather/trail updates.
** Here's your noon update...even though we're just now getting it posted as of 2:30 p.m. We wanted to wait a little while in order to give you the most up-to-date conditions. It has now stopped raining. Looking at the rain gauge, we received 8 tenths. It looks now as though it is trying to clear off. The sun is not out yet but it is trying to break thru the clouds. We'll see how much drying out it can do before the day is over. But it looks like right now, that it will be a bit muddier than once expected. But to what extent, we don't know yet. Depends on what the rest of the day ends up being like. We will do our best to try to update you late this evening. However, you will for sure have an update first thing a.m. tomorrow morning....but regardless, we will be OPEN this weekend with hours of operation both Saturday and Sunday of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Happy Trails,
RRMT, Inc. Staff
