JimFowler wrote:
Richard Casto wrote:
The last time I participated in a rally was 1986! It was just as much fun as I remembered. My daughter (first event for her) and I had a great time. Given it was a school night for her, I left after dinner, but before results were announced.
We were doing very well until the very end. Still not sure why we were supposed to make a left turn at a T. I suspect it was a "go as straight as you can" thing with the left turn being slightly more "straight" than the right? Anyhow, we ended up missing the last checkpoint as we wasted a lot of time trying to resolve that issue.
But given we used just car ODO, car speedo, analog wrist watch and I had only explained to my daughter how it all works on the drive down I think we likely did OK. I am looking forward to seeing the posted results.
Thanks for Bowie and all the others who helped for putting this on.
Richard
We arrived at that T, that I think you are talking about, with an instruction of TURN, and also had no idea which way to go. Other cars seemed similarly confused as we met some of them coming back as we approached the T. We assumed we had deviated from the route and turned around and drove back to find the course. When we reached the previous place where we had turned left, we saw that the road that we had turned from was marked DEAD END at that point, making the left turn the only possible route. That meant we had not yet executed the TURN LEFT instruction and it was intended for the T intersection. It was the trickiest part of the course for us. I think there was a warning in the supplemental instructions at the previous checkpoint that warned about looking for dead ends, but we still missed it on the first pass.
The T with a dead end was a different one. We made the left onto that and then saw the dead end sign and also realized that was not the correct "Left" turned around like everyone else. I am not sure if you could see the "dead end" until after you turned left.
The one we had problems with (that I assume most everyone else didn't!) was on the last leg. If I remember the instructions it was something like...
(leaving next to last checkpoint on "Ada Taylor Rd"...)
42: Turn right onto Old Bailey Hwy
43: Turn
44: Turn Left CAS
45: Turn onto Lilies Rd.
I might have the numbers wrong. Instruction 42 was easy and was right after the checkpoint. Instruction 43 was the next available chance to turn which ended up being a left turn onto "Old Silver Lake Rd". Instruction 44 was an easy turn onto Sandy Fork Rd. The "T" in question was at the intersection of Sandy Fork Rd. and Rt 97 and was an uninstructed turn between instructions 44 and 45 that you would have to navigate via the general instructions (as best as I can tell). I only really understood what to do here after looking at the marked up course map at Bowie's house. The next "confirmation item" (that confirms you are on the right path) was a mileage for a given turn and that was 10 miles down the road (I think it was the turn onto Lilies). So you had to go a ways to understand if you were right or wrong and messing up that one turn put us around 20 minutes off just to get back to the point at which we screwed up which torpedoed that segment for us. Bowie had more than a few tricks in the route instructions!
Here is a map for the area in question. Next to last checkpoint was on Ada Taylor Rd just prior to the Old Baily Hwy instersection...
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.83758,-77.9878176,15zRichard
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