The Ridge Runners ATV Club held our annual Summer Stampede at the Verda Event Field our 5th year of doing this event as well.

Friday night seen mother nature stop by and with no events for her to enter she left but not before dumping rain all over the field. Still we had riders to sign up for the pole bending event from 4 states. After strict safety measures were taken by the club and the new owner of the ATV Drag Strip with his equipment we started the event which soon became pole bending and mud bogging all together. All entries had a blast and was headed to the car wash and showers in a big way after the event.

Saturday seen a threat of having to shut down the events for safety reasons with more rain until about 2.5 hours before we were to start, the ridge runners, ATV drag Strip owners went into a frenzie getting every thing ready and making it safe. Events were kid and adult obstacle course, mud bog, and drag race. We had the Deaf "Outlaw" ATV club bring in many members as they held there national ride with us this year so we had a much bigger crowd to show up. All events went off in a great and safe way, the new private owned ATV Drag race was the big hit of the nite as we did not end events until around 11PM. With riders from 5 states lining up for this I can see it becoming a huge success for the folks
that have put some dollars into this to bring our county another business.

Next up is our annual Poker Run Ride where we assist the Harlan Honor Guard in raising some much needed funds for what they do for our veterans, this will be held on Saturday July 3rd. For more information about this event and what your county club does each month year after year.



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Preston Mclain
ATV Representative, Kentucky Recreational Trails Authority, KRTA

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