We'll Cross that Bridge III

Our Next Rally

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Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Car Club
Presents:

We’ll Cross that Bridge III

Date: Sunday, July 31st, 2011.

Registration: Registration is at 12:00 NOON, First car starts at 1:01 PM. Rally fee is $10.

Start: The rally begins in the at the "PARK N Ride" at E. Beau St./Rt.136, in Washington, PA, at the Beau St. exit of I70 & I79. Coordinates: N 40° 10’ 47.3” W 80° 13’ 23.4”

Description: 1/3 Rallymaster John Laslo tells us:

This year the rally is all paved roads (ed: unlike the fun & challenging “rustic” paths picked out for last year) and will run about 100 miles through Green County. Also - speeds will be more “normal” than last year, since we’ll be on paved roads.

Like previous years, it will be a novice-friendly event seeking out the covered bridges that populate SW Pennsylvania. The end point is the Panera Bread at the Junction of 79 &70 & 19 near the WAL MART.

Although Green Country has the least population of all of PA counties we
pass more populated areas than in the past Bridges Rallies. No breaks
planned so far but plenty of opportunities. (ed: Rally is still under development as this announcement is being posted)

For more information, contact John: lasloja@verizon.net or via phone at 4i2- six-five-three 6910

What beginners should bring with them:

For starters - there should be two of you in the car: a driver, and a navigator (who isn't inclined to get car-sick reading while moving, or has an antidote for it).

Bring a mechanically sound car* that has a tenths -reading odometer (a resettable trip odometer can be a help), a clipboard, a four function calculator, several working pens, a set of highlighters (for marking up the route instructions) and post-it notes.

If you can choose between a mechanical odometer that "rolls" and a digital display, the mechanical will enable you to interpolate to the hundredths. If you only have the digital tenths, then you'll have to do a lot more "guessing" in between the numbers clicking over. We have folks who have gotten good at this with practice!

While every team has their own procedure, it's useful to be able to highlight things like speed changes, and free zones (remember - there is a tutorial to get you started!) so that "on the road" it helps you remember them better. The post-its are to stick on your dashboard to remind the driver of the assigned speeds and what the active course following priorities are.

Also - having a good map of the area that includes secondary (and tertiary roads) can be very helpful if you get lost and can't regain the rally course.

*While a cell phone and a AAA membership can't hurt, a lot of the time, we'll be traveling on roads that are well off the beaten track, and you may not have much of a description of where you are! "Well - we got here by turning left after "Snodgrass", then right at T, and left by protection... " While a GPS unit probably won’t help you very much while running the rally, it may be very useful for telling AAA where you are if you break down.