Re: Rotary OY update? - Questions for Y'all

trainrider47 Wrote:
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> Russ,
>
> The highway on the west side is both a blessing
> and a curse for rotary events. Instead of having
> a chase train and participants floundering thru
> deep snow to somehow get ahead of the plow,
> you can just drive to the next position and the
> rotary comes to you!   Of course, this also
> means there is no way to enforce a pay-
> ment system.

It shouldn't be too hard to arrange for the highway to be closed for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the afternoon, especially in the off-season - see [ngdiscussion.net], above.  Maybe just keep free-loaders away from the fill at 'Lake Lobato' for half an hour and again for half an hour each below the second crossing and/or the 'S-Curve' just beyond, and/or at Coxo.  IIRC, most of the other good locations would require either a very long lens or a very long hike ...

> Running out of Antonito would eliminate the
> freeloader problem, but would introduce a
> whole host of additional problems.


Right, Michael -

But instead of a second train to haul the Phraud-O-Graphers, how about renting two or three really large snow-cats?  I vaguely remember a large open snow-cat at North Star (north side of Lake Tahoe) that carried more than a dozen skiers, and IIRC it pulled a trailer hauling a dozen more.  If your rotary run preceded or followed the ski season, such rentals might cost less than a "chase" train, and would make it much easier to keep ahead of the plow.

- Rüsso