First, I would like to thank Mike Daily, Charles Aggenbach and Derris Humphrey for all their help with writing, measuring, calculating, and checking out the rally. Second, I want to thank all the contestants who came out to rally on a rainy-drippy night.
The route explored a couple of old rally roads that haven’t been used in a while as the course meandered around the Maple Valley area. To keep the navigators engaged, we had three notes in effect looking for double-headed arrows, horse & rider signs and small children pedestrian signs. Now, the “little walkers” were found at school crossing signs, but were also found on the graphic signs of school bus stop ahead. To help cut down on any uncertainty with the “sign accounting” at the checkpoints, I provided an “official count” of the active notes sign counts.
When I was planning the rally, I did not realize how quickly darkness would arrive on rally night. Hence, the hunting for signs was much more challenging than what I had planned.
I hope everyone who participated had fun and hope to see all of you back for the last rally of the year, in October.
John Humphrey – Rallymaster
