[Doug E]

Sorry fellas, but it seems that Isabel got us. My son and I left this morning at 8 am to test the route for next weekend but unfortunately south of Middleburg and Warrenton we kept encountering fallen trees, standing water and road closures as a result of the storm. We finally turned around and just walked back in the door now.

Since I won't be able to test the route again before next weekend and I don't feel comfortable sending 20+ cars out blind my vote is to cancel the run.

If anyone else wants to step up and organize a different route feel free to do so but at this point I'm out as the organizing effort.

As a teaser, this route was going to start in The Plains and basically follow a butterfly pattern on the map reaching North to Middleburg, west to Flint Hill, south to Faquier White and east to Elk Run. 85%+ of the roads were going to be new so hopefully we can use the route again sometime in the future.