April 6-7 Weekend - Who Had More Fun? (a.k.a. pics or it didn't happen) (1 Viewer)

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Clarence posted up in the Mardi Krawl thread asking about pics and who had more fun. I'm sure everyone took pics at both events, so I thought a thread was in order to give it the ol' stare and compare.

We kicked things off Friday night at the clubhouse, setting up the smokers in the parking lot. Hagan was all, "what the hell, why you taking my picture?" To put it on the interwebz, like dis:
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I got there late, as did a few other folks. Matt D. had been there all afternoon, making sure the bourbon was still drinkable, and that the beer was still cold. He was also working his magic with the meat right there in the parking lot.
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French showed up a little later, and decided that Matt needed some instructional youtube videos on how to barbecue. Mat was all like, yeah yeah, outta my way.
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Then I think there may have been mention of boobies, and Matt got interested. I can neither confirm nor deny from the photographic evidence.
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After some of French's pointers, and whatever was on that youtube video, Matt got back to trimming.
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After that, it was on to the UDS for the next 14 hours. Matt ceremoniously covers the meat for the long haul.
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Hal had the idea to put tire tracks on the sign, to kick things up a notch and potentially confuse our patrons the next day. The sign looked TBA though. Bonus points if someone guesses the tread pattern. Also, incidentally, this picture explains why my truck ended up smelling like a BBQ pit.
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After that, we took a look at the competition. Matt is mildly impressed.
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Brian's all like, "Nah man, nah, that whole hog's never going to cook right. We got nothing to worry about."
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And then... THEN, as they say in the hood... CBC decided to give us the "hook up" and they locked up the brewery and wheeled a keg outside for the night. Danger Will Robinson. Danger.
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Continued.

So Hal and I decided to celebrate with stogies... not sure what we were celebrating, I guess the free beer. This is where things get a little hazy, and I ain't talking about the photos.
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Matt was happy to have the last of the meat on the smoker. He didn't have a cigar to celebrate though. However, he did have beer. And bourbon.
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Brian decided to chill in the tent, bask in the glow of 50' of rope lights, and soak in the ambiance, I mean smoke.
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Couple of beers later, sufficiently chilled, p-a-r-t-y.
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Hey, let's make it look like this Ford is overheating...
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Son of a... I inhaled...
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Brian attempts to contain his excitement over the free beer. Attempts...
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Hey, hey, gimme your camera, get in the picture, hey, Matt, get in the picture, Keith, look sober <click> FAIL. (aside, not sure how I ended up with Matt's hat... I just now realized it was his. Whoops.)
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Hey hey, seriously, Matt, get in the picture, Keith, sober face. Matt:"Huh??" <click> Hooray beer.
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The man, the myth, the legend... and it helps if you pronounce his name correctly when trying to convince the bartender at his brewery that you really do know him, and that he really did say to tell them you're with DLCBBQ to get a freebie. Whoopsie.
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More beer. Then the BCRFA director showed up. Hooray for boobies, we're all fans here. Let's drink to that. Thankfully she was amused.
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Hey that's a nice camera, take my picture. I distinctly remember (not sure how at this point) going full photog mode, and explaining that you can define the jaw line by forcing your ear towards the camera. Check out that jaw line. Bazinga.
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Not sure what they ended up naming this guy. I'm going with Milton. Kinda looks like a Milton to me.
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After that, Matt held down the fort for the night, and did an amazing job turning pig parts into some of the best barbecue I've ever eaten.
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That's all Friday night pics, and big thanks to everyone who came out to help set up and get things rolling. I'll have another post tomorrow with the few pics I took on Saturday, and an account of some of the days activities.
 
Conversation on Sunday morning ride on luckies trail:

Clarence: That's the route Andy and the 40 guys had trouble with on the night ride to the right.

Me: Maybe we should go left.

Clarence: I'll just ride down a little bit so you can see how hard it was. Hmm, it looks a litttle drier now, I think I can do it.

Me: I don't think that is a good idea....

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Turns out, it wasn't dry, but he did make it up, eventually. We made to where the pic was taken and then hit the wet clay. Paul left to go try to find another route to the top of the trail to pull us up and it turns out that route was worse than this one.(I got a video of the exit route) Too wet and too steep to back down so finally some woopow(plus a strategically placed rock) and he was up.

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I'll post some more later, it was a blast.
 
Looks like fun, I almost went down to cahaba brewing but got dragged to the thing at Avondale for a bit after work on Saturday. Sunday I threw on a bumper by myself. I'm hurting today and would punch a kangaroo for those damned square caged nuts ARB uses.
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Even though I attended the beginnings of Friday night Cahabaque... and I missed the mardicrawl... but I gotta say... watching a franken40 do a backflip and STILL keep hittin' it... well... see for yourself. I'm at the end waiving a poster up in the crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=i6-v_9WyYT4&feature=endscreen
 
Sarah took a lot of pictures with an actual camera on the Saturday morning easy trail ride, I will upload those later. Sunday I rode with Clarence and Paul and we hit a mix of moderate to hard trails. I have to say I was really impressed with Hawk pride, there are a lot of easy and moderate trails out there.

longer trail(sorry for the video, I was trying to hold on and smashing my head):



another:



one of paul on diamondback:

 
Hell, it felt like no one was going to ride so I cleaned up. Once I hooked the swaybar back up and got it clean there was no turning back. Looks like I missed out on all the fun.
 
Found out, last place in official competition, third place in people's choice. First place in amount of beer consumed by a team.
 
CBC judges have hated us for years.

The people have spoken.

Final sentence edited for content because it consisted of something similar to "dat a eick CBC judges!"
 
I want a recount on the beer. I think it was rigged.


I was only drinking Coke Friday night so I see no way we were first in beer consumed.
 
Found out, last place in official competition, third place in people's choice. First place in amount of beer consumed by a team.

Them judges ain't got taste buds!
 

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