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CANCELED: SCEB Inaugural Point to Point (aka "Overland") Run planning
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Felix 808
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Best wishes with it. Hope you / they can get it sorted for you.
So now that it's starting to cool off out there let's revive this. Let's keep it to three days or less. Most can squeeze a Friday easier than a Monday, so let's say meet up somewhere Thursday eve or Friday morning with the plan to split up sometime Sunday afternoon. There will be no base camp, each night will be a new place of some distance from the previous night's camp spot.
Two options for the route:
1) Something that I come up with. No idea where or what ATM, but will be in the greater Mojave Desert.
2) Mojave Road, East to West. This is a 2.5 to 3 day trip. Unless all want to go at something close to pre-runner speeds it's not really doable in two days. And if you want to go at pre-runner speeds it kinda defeats the point for this route.
Two options for the route:
1) Something that I come up with. No idea where or what ATM, but will be in the greater Mojave Desert.
2) Mojave Road, East to West. This is a 2.5 to 3 day trip. Unless all want to go at something close to pre-runner speeds it's not really doable in two days. And if you want to go at pre-runner speeds it kinda defeats the point for this route.
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BrickNoseFSB
FoMoCo MoFo
I'm game.
I'm interested depending on the date you settle on. Of the options you chose I'd be more inclined to option 1. I've done Mojave road and while it's fun with lots of interesting stuff to see, something tells me a Thom Singer guided tour might take me somewhere I've never been before.
BrickNoseFSB
FoMoCo MoFo
I suggest perhaps weaving a stop or two at historical waterin' holes that may be near Jawbone cyn store, Robbers Roost, The Joint in Ransburg, Slash X Ranch, Pappy and Harriet's, etc.
Been working on When. The best weekend for me is Oct. 10-12 with Oct. 24-26 a distant second.
The Where I'm still working on. Our group's usual rule is to stay under 100 miles/day. That long day at Calico when we went out to the Husky Monument a hunnert years ago or so was just short of that. Those who were there know how tiring a 100 miles of dirt can be if you're not used to that sort of driving. Plan is to keep this trip well under that limit. I would plan on needing at least 300 miles worth of fuel on-board.
The Where I'm still working on. Our group's usual rule is to stay under 100 miles/day. That long day at Calico when we went out to the Husky Monument a hunnert years ago or so was just short of that. Those who were there know how tiring a 100 miles of dirt can be if you're not used to that sort of driving. Plan is to keep this trip well under that limit. I would plan on needing at least 300 miles worth of fuel on-board.
BrickNoseFSB
FoMoCo MoFo
24-26 October would work best for me, but I can try to make it happen either way. Excited to see the itinerary
I was hoping for more date input, but I think that we'll need to run with what we have. 10th-12th it is.
Now for where. I've been pondering a vast number of permutations and combinations. Most critical is the meet-up place. Today on the drive home I decided to make it Peggy Sue's in Yermo. Most everyone already knows where it is and I'm thinking this will give people a some options for where they want to stay Thursday night. If you're looking at a building that looks like it might have been an old railroad car and it doesn't have a little water park with Dinosaurs and ducks in it between the restaurant building and I-15 then you're at the wrong place. This is the correct place: Peggy Sue's 50's Diner
Let's be fueled up (rigs and people) and ready to leave at 8am Friday morning.
Now who? Trips like this work best when the group isn't large. Ideally everyone interested will post their intent in this thread, but I know some don't post much at all. Send me an email to my user name at yahoo dot com if you want to be included and can't/won't/don't post in threads. I am going to limit this to the first 6 rigs that respond. Maybe we won't get that many, maybe there's a huge number of lurkers planning on going, I don't know. If we hit the limit rapidly I'll keep the first couple of just missed it! responders as alternates in case someone has to bail out.
I'd like to get some idea of skill level for everyone going. I don't want to bore anyone and I don't want to kill interest by choosing a route that is too much. Like, say, a hundred mile day when some people didn't know to bring their lunch. OOF, THAT was a learning lesson!
I'd also like to know what type of radio you're using. I really hope that we can all be on one frequency. I've done trips with two or three different radios and I soon get to the point where I don't know what I've said to whom and I swore that I wouldn't do that again. Best would be a 2M ham radio with the MARS-CAP mod. Can buy a Baofeng off Amazonian Overlanding Supply for not a lot. Just be sure that it can receive and transmit from roughly 145MHz to roughly 175MHz.
Expect that there will be at least some pavement miles involved. I don't know how much yet because, for example, I don't know if we can get to Pisgah Crater, the Desert Megaphone, the Lava Cave, The Crowbar (always liked that name), Saratoga Springs, the Geologist's Cabin, Darwin Falls, and Star Wars Canyon in ~2.5 days without setting a killer pace. Where ever we end up coming home from, expect it to be a long ways away from Peggy Sue's.
Now for where. I've been pondering a vast number of permutations and combinations. Most critical is the meet-up place. Today on the drive home I decided to make it Peggy Sue's in Yermo. Most everyone already knows where it is and I'm thinking this will give people a some options for where they want to stay Thursday night. If you're looking at a building that looks like it might have been an old railroad car and it doesn't have a little water park with Dinosaurs and ducks in it between the restaurant building and I-15 then you're at the wrong place. This is the correct place: Peggy Sue's 50's Diner
Let's be fueled up (rigs and people) and ready to leave at 8am Friday morning.
Now who? Trips like this work best when the group isn't large. Ideally everyone interested will post their intent in this thread, but I know some don't post much at all. Send me an email to my user name at yahoo dot com if you want to be included and can't/won't/don't post in threads. I am going to limit this to the first 6 rigs that respond. Maybe we won't get that many, maybe there's a huge number of lurkers planning on going, I don't know. If we hit the limit rapidly I'll keep the first couple of just missed it! responders as alternates in case someone has to bail out.
I'd like to get some idea of skill level for everyone going. I don't want to bore anyone and I don't want to kill interest by choosing a route that is too much. Like, say, a hundred mile day when some people didn't know to bring their lunch. OOF, THAT was a learning lesson!
I'd also like to know what type of radio you're using. I really hope that we can all be on one frequency. I've done trips with two or three different radios and I soon get to the point where I don't know what I've said to whom and I swore that I wouldn't do that again. Best would be a 2M ham radio with the MARS-CAP mod. Can buy a Baofeng off Amazonian Overlanding Supply for not a lot. Just be sure that it can receive and transmit from roughly 145MHz to roughly 175MHz.
Expect that there will be at least some pavement miles involved. I don't know how much yet because, for example, I don't know if we can get to Pisgah Crater, the Desert Megaphone, the Lava Cave, The Crowbar (always liked that name), Saratoga Springs, the Geologist's Cabin, Darwin Falls, and Star Wars Canyon in ~2.5 days without setting a killer pace. Where ever we end up coming home from, expect it to be a long ways away from Peggy Sue's.
BrickNoseFSB
FoMoCo MoFo
I may have to bail out also, is the re a MINIMUN of rigs you would consider before postponing?
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