<from the rallymaster>
First, I hope everyone enjoyed the rally. The rally started with a twist by the NOTE: To Find Outcone. The note contained the old first opp/secondopp trap. I was extremely encouraged that everyone executed the note correctly and found the on-course route control on the way to the outcone! Very good everyone!!
I apologize for the editing errors with respect to leg two. An NRI introduced NOTE: “Skinny Roads” but the note was “Skinny Road”. A nice trap, since there is no note called Skinny Roads. The Note: “Skinny Roads” cannot be introduced. Unfortunately, I did not plan this to be a trap Note instruction. Maybe I’ll plan for that trap next year. Second, NOTE: Harbinger was deleted from the rally as the sign references were too hard to see at night. However, no matter how many times I edited the note out, it showed up again on the Final rally version of the instructions. Due to these unplanned editing errors, I decided to simply drop the second leg scores.
Thank you to Kelly Smith for his support of reading and editing of the rally instructions; to my wife Derris for her help with measuring the rally, TSD calculations and physical checkout of the rally. I want to thank Mike Daily for the help with the Dash Plaques and trophies for the rally and the championship trophies for the Novice & SOP classes.
For next year, monitor the NWRC website for updates to the General Instructions and the 2025 Rally Schedule.
John Humphrey
NWRC President
Yea, the NOTE: Harbinger was a real bugger for Dominic (my navigator) who simply would not shutup about it, and repeatedly asking me what it meant…. a distraction at best.
Shame about the leg 2 being thrown out as it was our best leg score of 6 as I recall.
No matter, the rally was great fun….. thank you Rally Master and Mike.