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Hey Ed, I run in RM4 class with my 2.5L SOHC in my Impreza. I would suggest a soft to medium compound rally tire for this event. You won't need your mud tires. You will probably be surprised at how much this event will chew up your tires. The surface is slippery gravel on top of packed dirt(no topsoil) which never seems to rut up. There is a concrete pad to park on. I would try to get there early to get a spot on it as this will be a popular event as we have had around 60 drivers at our normal events. Ken has been quite dominate in his EVO this year though I might have a trick up my sleeve for nationals. I am excited to see all you guys out here and have some good tough competition. As for the N/A part, I am pretty sure you have a 2.2L in the impreza right? It has been very tough for me to be competitive with the turbo guys lately and we don't have an N/A class. Ken just seems to get better and better in the EVO and it is hard to keep up with a car that has twice the horsepower as your own. That being said the courses out here are usually quite technical compared to the Midwest national courses over the last few year. This helps to narrow the HP gap. You guys are good drivers and I think that you will be very competitive once you get the surface down. Nationals are on the 9th of October. Early October can be quite cold in Colorado so bring a good jacket, pants, shorts and t shirts as it can also be in the 80s. October and November are our driest months so don't expect rain or snow. But here you never know. As for running of the event, I haven't been to the last couple of races but we have had trouble lately with the not being able to get a lot of runs. I hope we have that figured out by Nationals and we should. We usually run two run groups in the morning and two in the afternoon. So you have three runs in the morning and three in the afternoon. I think we will have a night event at Nationals also. Sorry it is kind of scattered but I hope that answers your questions. Please ask more if you need to. -Max

Before we got back into rifle there was a atv playground and the hatch was the perfect size so i played around a little. Then I found this. -Max

This last saturday, my cousin and I went up on the Roan Plateau outside of Rifle Colorado. The Roan Plateau is also know as the Naval Oil Shale Reserve. 55,186 acres of the Plateau are going to be leased out for natural gas exploration on Aug 14th 2008. We thought we would go see it before the oil companies go in. I was very surprised when I went on top of the plateau as I was expecting a high mountain desert of sage and pinon pine. I was wrong. We started in the town of Rifle at 95 degrees, rose 4000' within 9 miles (2000' of that in one 2.5 mile section of road) and dropped to 75 degrees. Once we got up there we saw high mountain meadows, aspen and pine forests, and wild flowers everywhere. Not what I expected. There weren't many people up there and most of the traffic we saw were oil workers using the roads to get to private land on top of the Plateau. We drove along the rim road taking has many of the little overgrown side road that we could. One of these road started to head into a canyon and then deadended. We got out of the car and went for hike which all we had to follow was game trails. We came across some cool waterfalls, forests and some stinging nettle. I took a bunch of pictures so here they are. The Colorado River 3 miles away and 4000' down The road getting up there. White Columbine our hike and Waterfalls My cave 2ft diameter aspen tree. I saw the largest aspen trees I have ever seen on this hike. The hatch, stalking us. cliffs

Yes, I have seen you up there. I also think i saw you up outside of Rollinsville on east portal road. Was that you? The lights are modded '78 brat lights. -Max

Thanks Zap! 12000ft? Yeah, there was probably about 8 ft of snow at this spot in March but it melts pretty quick up here. There are still quite a few trails closed that are at about 9000ft because they are in the trees and they have massive drifts on them. There are also a few trails that are probably not going to be passable this year because of all the snow. -Max

I took a break from clearing some dead trees at my cabin and did some light wheeling up off of Boreas Pass. I didn't do anything too crazy as I was alone, but I had some fun. The car keeps surprising me every time I go off-roading as the only problem I have had is lack of power(1.8 carbed engine and 12000ft don't mix so well). I haven't had any clearance problems yet. Look at that flex! If anyone every wants to go 4 wheeling send me a PM as I am up for it if I am around. I am going to be in the Roaring Fork area for most of the summer but I return to Denver on the weekends often. -Max

Thanks Ed, I just got back home. It was a fun weekend and your son is a tough competitor and a good guy. I wish i could have stayed longer also but I need to get back to work to pay for the gas out there! It ended up being about $500 in gas for there and back. Also, I owe you an exhaust hanger. I remember that it was on my car as I was driving away, then I tried to get it off and couldn't. -Max

Looks like it is going to be a fun event. I will be coming up there to compete and l and look forward to meeting you all. I have never raced on a surface like yours. Is it usually pretty wet and muddy? -Max

Its pretty sweet, and I've taken it off a few pretty sweet jumps. I am living in Glenwood Springs and will be doing a few cool trails up here. -Max

It was a fun day up there. I was just Jason in his stock brat and Frank and I in my hatchback. First we went up to East Portal Road and tried to go up West Magnolia Road and it was closed because of soft roadbed. Then we tried going up on the Apex Trail and we got about 1 1/2 miles and we were stopped by the snow. Then we went over to Central City and headed up by Columbine campground. There was a nice maze of trails up behind one of the graveyards across from Columbine Campground. We played around on some tailings piles which was pretty fun. Then we headed up Yankee Hill and played around up there. Jason got stuck in a mud hole and I had to pull him out. The cars did amazingly well, I would go through a hairy section and look back and the Brat would be right behind me. -Max

See you all at 10am tomorrow! Be ready to go get lost up behind Central City! -Max

Okay, so the real story is that you just cleaned your woerunner and you you can't go Four wheeling, is that right? hugs and kisses -Max

A few of us from CCR are going up on saturday and seeing who else wants to go. I want to try out Yankee Hill, Apex trail, and maybe just drive around and find some cool trails. We are going to meet at 10am at the Milk House on HWY 93 about 2 miles north outside of golden. -Max

I am ready to go.... in about a week(after finals). I went and started a trail by yankee hill last weekend and I could have gotten pretty far, if there would have been another car with me. I was on some ATV tracks and the car was doing great. -Max

figured it out, dash light wiring was lose and grounding itself. Pretty sad b/c I torn apart my whole dash to find it. -Max