Went to my first Trail Hero Friday and Saturday. I signed up for the trail Plan-B on Saturday sponsored by BFGoodrich Tires . Trail Hero stated the trail was rate 6.
Friday - I arrived to the Sand Hollow area around 2 pm. I went looking for registration and no one was there. I talked to the guy at the front desk he
told me registration was from 7am-10am and they will be gone at 10 am on the dot. This odd for being a big event like this. When you pay for a trail, you
get a pass to enter Sand Hollow State Park for free. Which makes sense, but if you come after 10 am you must pay to go to the event which doesn't make
sense. Anyways I got frustrated and paid to get into the event. I walked around a little bit but I didn't see anything exciting. I then went back to
the free camping area about 5 minutes away and called it a night. Also, Dave joined me (we met at a Car meet up in Las Vegas and this will be our first
outing together.) He drives a 1962 GMC truck on 38's
Saturday - Woke up at 6ish, packed up and made sure to be at registration at 7 am. Super easy process and was done in about 5 minutes. Dave and I went
straight to staging. "Staging at 8:30 am and leaving at 9 am" We left at 9:30. The staging lane was full. Staging is pretty cool cause you can meet
new people. Throughout the trail I was in different positions from the front to the very back and they have different pros and cons. We went through the
dune section which was a thrill speeding and praying not to be the one who gets stuck. We get the 1st Plan-B sign and it says Plan-B 7" and I'm like Oh
no I hope I can do this. Right off the bat it gets crazy off camber, narrow twisting sections, hill climbs and steep drop offs. I've never done a trail
like this before. It defiantly took me out of my comfort zone. I would say is a great thing if I wasn't in this trail ride, I would have said NOPE NOT
TODAY and turned around. Finding the limits of the truck was interesting and seeing if all my hours of planning and building would pay off by not
breaking. The truck is way more capable than the operator but I'll work on that. This trail pointed out I need to get my rear locker working. I could
do one of the last obstacles and I had to take the bypass. Overall, the Plan-B was SUPER fun. It had my heart racing and my hands shaking. I would
say it is a great intermediate trail that will test the driver and the rig. 35 front and rear lockers and a small lift is what I would recommend. In the
group, there was a XJ with 33s, Front & rear lockers, and a small lift, which made it through most of it. No one took body damage that I know of,
but Dave hit his drive shaft on a rock and blew his driver front hub. The overall pace of the run was easy going nobody was rushing anyone it was a
relaxed atmosphere but I did self-induce a rush on myself.
My thoughts of being in different positions of the convoy.
Being in the front is cool because you get to the obstacle, and you get to hit it quickly and then you can watch the others tackle it.
Being in the rear you are in the vehicle longer waiting to get the obstacle and if felt like a slower pace but if you want to put on a show, most of the group is watching.
Definitely would do this again.
