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Wrenching Dad
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Mullet Jim and I did the Barstow Poker run this weekend.
It's 2 different 25 mile courses.
The Fees collected were distributed to various charities in the area.
Talking to the head of the run he told us that the BLM imposed a "Recovery Fee" of $8.900.00 and that put the charity in the red so this is the last poker run.
The Rock Crawlers were accessed a $10.000.00 BLM recovery fee BTW.
BLM points the finger at the Lucern Valley incident, so it's mass punishment for all.
In addition the Poker Run wasn't drawing the crowd it used to. Donated prizes didn't attract anyones interest along with a few other factors and the whole event ran out of enthusiasm from the volunteers and participants.
Trying to get participants amp'd up on the strength of "it's for a good cause" just wasn't cutting it.
Yeah it is for a good cause, but ya still have to roll out good prizes from my experiences running charities.
All the volunteers were crest fallen, less than 200 people signed up, the storm damaged some of the marker signs/arrows that didn't get replaced,, not a good run this year.
Shame, I'd guess I've done over half the runs since it was from Barstow to Big Bear and it used to be a great weekend.
Sorry to see it fade away.
Once ya stop something like this it has to be hard as hell to get it organized and going again.
Time was the BLM enthusiastically encouraged these vents. No more.