Rausch Creek is an off-road park in Pennsylvania where the CNYJeep.org folks go on occasion. Vic decided we would join them on September 18 and 19 for some wheeling. We took the camper and stayed at a nearby campground and arrived Saturday morning ready to go. For whatever reason there were only three other Jeeps that attended. It was a nice fall weekend - coolish and dry on Sat. and warmish and still dry on Sun.
Trails were marked for difficulty with colors. Green for easy, blue for more moderate, black for challenging and red for mind-bogglingly (new word?) bad.
Old fire tower
A pretty viewpoint. Most interesting is that cattails are growing on this mountainside.
Having a spotter was nice in more than one area.
The amount of water was surprising to us as the latter part of the summer has been terribly dry.
Andy coming through the water behind us.
This muddy pool is named "Buried Treasure". Benjamin's Jeep almost became another treasure buried here. He managed to get around back to attach a tow strap to be pulled out. I'm not quite sure why he chose not to wade in as his feet were wet; the Jeep had taken on a few inches of water.
After walking about a third of Crawl Daddy to check it out, the fellows decided it would have provided too much opportunity to damage the Jeeps in some areas and was just plain impossible in others.
More in depth research will tell if this is Pennsylvania Smartweed or Lady's Thumb.
Pokeberries or ink berries were abundant.
Brian's turn to get stuck.
Preparing for Vic to strap him out.
Vic finds this ledge too appealing....
and at this point decides to back down.
That evening we explored the area a bit more and found this hang gliding area. That's a small piece of carpeting on the launch spot.
A beautiful view for launching, flying and landing out there somewhere.
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