Oppo Rally: California

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale) 11/12/2018 at 18:25 • Filed to: OPPO RALLY CA

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All the smoke from the fires was wild

Ok people more work has been done to make the first !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! happen. Went to a few points I had made via Google maps to make sure they were worthy. Crossed a few off and even added one I just happened to run across. My car has been having some stupid vibration I can’t figure out, so we took the Mommy Wagon and had an absolute blast. Here are a few photos of the fun

And yes Oppo there will be some way points only visi t able via dirt roads, but don’t worry, for those of you with non dirt road cars most will be paved, but gotta get some dirt on them rigs. Plus finding out CA58 is mostly repaved was a beautiful sight ;)

Surprisingly super clean restrooms

Quite the view

Smoke screen engaged

Beautiful lake

The Mommy Wagon is quite the champ

Pano

“Artistic”

Wagon fever is getting to me... I just want my RS6 C6 Avant

You don’t need to see behind you, everyone back there is losing anyway

This car really does hold onto dirt

The smoke did make for amazing photos though

Cows

So many more I need to go check out...

someassemblyrequired > CaptDale - is secretly British 11/12/2018 at 18:33

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 California is so immense, yeah it has 30 million people, but it’s bigger than Germany.   Lots of varied geography and cool roads.   It’ll be an awesome rally.

RallyWrench > CaptDale - is secretly British 11/12/2018 at 18:50

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In for some scouting and poring over maps . 

CaptDale - is secretly British > someassemblyrequired 11/12/2018 at 18:54

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Yeah, it’ll still be a day rally, but cover a good swath of southern and central CA

CaptDale - is secretly British > RallyWrench 11/12/2018 at 18:56

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Yes! I will 100% invite you on the next scouting outing. I have a good number of way points set up via Google maps and plenty of i deas thanks to Dusty.

I could use a hand figuring out the god awful vibration coming from my car. And I really need to not forget my oil pan again. I’ll get that and Taylor his money tomorrow lol. Let him know. 

MM54 > CaptDale - is secretly British 11/12/2018 at 20:07

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Hmm...

Is there a date set for this (or an approximate time)?

I’m on the wrong side of the country, but might be able to make something work if it’s timed right.

RutRut > CaptDale - is secretly British 11/12/2018 at 20:13

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Central CA you say?

Nick Has an Exocet > CaptDale - is secretly British 11/12/2018 at 20:40

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Do you have a date in mind? If it involves any PCH, will want to avoid school holidays (and therefore road hogs).

CaptDale - is secretly British > RutRut 11/13/2018 at 10:59

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Yes

CaptDale - is secretly British > MM54 11/13/2018 at 11:00

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Probably sometime spring next year? Haven’t settled on anything yet. 

CaptDale - is secretly British > Nick Has an Exocet 11/13/2018 at 11:00

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No dates yet.

MM54 > CaptDale - is secretly British 11/13/2018 at 17:57

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Cool, keep us all up to date with the planning. I’ll see what I can do.

Dusty Ventures > CaptDale - is secretly British 12/16/2018 at 21:04

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Missed this when you posted it. Scouting trips are definitely way more fun than one expects. And I too discovered a few checkpoints just by coming across them while scouting. Just make sure they can be found online via google search or something so there’s some way for competitors to figure out the location. If it doesn’t have an online presence at all you’ll have to be sure to give extra hints on the location at the rally start. I had to do that with one of the checkpoints for the CT rally.

Dusty Ventures > CaptDale - is secretly British 12/16/2018 at 21:06

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Also, keep in mind that anyone who you have scout can’t compete (or at least can’t score the checkpoints you had them scout).