A former quarry on Pitts Gap Road in Graysville, Tennessee, found new life through the sport of World Extreme Rockcrawling, aka W.E. Rock, which paid its 17th annual visit to Kizzar’s Farm over the weekend.
Competitors build vehicles they use to tackle obstacles, such as huge boulders, drops, rock ledges and crack lines, and steep climbs while avoiding cones on the course, which they are challenged to complete in under 10 minutes. Each team includes a driver, along with a spotter who helps the driver navigate the course and performs “saves,” such as using a rope to pull a stuck vehicle out of a tough spot.
Multiple courses are classified for either professional or sportsman classes, and each competitor completes four courses per day during the two-day event, which wrapped up late Saturday. The top competitors in the professional class move on to the “Shootout” course at the end of the weekend to determine the winners of the event.
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Competitions usually last about five or six hours a day, said Henry Elliott, who was running the merchandise store for W.E. Rock.