04-02-2008, 01:22 AM
I went to Branson and stopped at that Hobbytown too, nice people. Brand new shop. Not a whole lot of crawling out there though. I brought the Pede and had fun on the hotels mini put course.
I don't know of any really worthy areas in Illinois. If you guys want to experence real crawling you have to go out of state.
Kind of the reason I'm going with scaler events this year. The only areas around my hometown that are deemed fun spots are city parks. Often times city parks have fancy decoration rocks everywhere often used for flood control. But, once you drive natural slickrock nothing no longer compares. We need to setup some kind of comp and camp sometime out of state. Meeting other clubs is what makes the trip the most fun. Already planing Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin, Utah and Iowa trips this year.
I hit every state park, city park and county park within 2 hours of my house, nothing but grasslands. If there are natural rocks they are way over protected and crowded such as Starved rock. There are few places near me that look like perfect slickrock but the park erected a walking path over it treating the place like its a shrine.
There are rocky parks but the top soil is so thick it covers the rocks all up. So all you see is rocky shear cliffs such as White pines.
Just a FYI when looking for parks.
I've found that 80% of good areas are near lakes and rivers.
99.9% had to do with water is some way. Dam, flood control area, ect.
I don't know of any really worthy areas in Illinois. If you guys want to experence real crawling you have to go out of state.
Kind of the reason I'm going with scaler events this year. The only areas around my hometown that are deemed fun spots are city parks. Often times city parks have fancy decoration rocks everywhere often used for flood control. But, once you drive natural slickrock nothing no longer compares. We need to setup some kind of comp and camp sometime out of state. Meeting other clubs is what makes the trip the most fun. Already planing Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin, Utah and Iowa trips this year. I hit every state park, city park and county park within 2 hours of my house, nothing but grasslands. If there are natural rocks they are way over protected and crowded such as Starved rock. There are few places near me that look like perfect slickrock but the park erected a walking path over it treating the place like its a shrine.
There are rocky parks but the top soil is so thick it covers the rocks all up. So all you see is rocky shear cliffs such as White pines.
Just a FYI when looking for parks.
I've found that 80% of good areas are near lakes and rivers.
99.9% had to do with water is some way. Dam, flood control area, ect.