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Jim Bowie
11-24-2008, 09:06 AM
Totem Rally was a blast .. where did all the snow come from . Since there is no snow on Sun Peaks . the Kamloops ski hill we did not expect snow . and then all of Jamison Creek was snow and ice . and on the pass from Adams Lake to Vavenby . it was a foot deep and the road had not been plowed . .one icy set of tracks to follow .... some of the competitors could not come close to the average and the ones that caught them could not pass . Ended up with one 6 car group so they had to cut the last 2 controls . Too bad ..

Sunday was fun . lots of fun roads with enough ice to keep you paying attention . Car 17 a Neon . fell into a creek .. they were not a full step off the road but on their side with the side of the car level with the road . and a foot of water in the car .. They had gone off really slow and while they need a crane to get it back on . there was very little damage most the rear quarter panel and it was very driveable . ..

The icy hill climb at Green Lake was another surprise . We past a Saab and the Toyota Celica as they could not make it up at all .. glare ice .. love all wheel drive

Too bad its so long now to Thunderbird . We need another winter rally .

Hope everyone else had as much fun as we did ..

chris
11-24-2008, 01:42 PM
Sounds like another very successful and competative Totem, congrats on a very solid event organized by WCRA et al.

It sounds like Frank had an excellent and interesting time as rally sweep! Way to put him to work Nicki!

Nicki
11-25-2008, 07:56 AM
It was an awesome event, and thanks to everyone for attending! Congratulations to all the competitors, Out of 24 cars there were 3 DNF's and only one "off"! So I was pretty impressed!
Thanks to Frank for putting up with me all weekend! And you absolutly rock for renting that truck! I have to say I was very impressed with your driving by the end of the weekend!
A quick sorry to the cars that got stuck on the ice hill, since we got stuck and slid into a ditch if we stopped our "agressive all seasons" would have not gotten us going again!
See you at T-bird!

navi-mel
11-25-2008, 11:47 AM
I just want to say thanks to Paul and Nicki for pulling together and awsome event. I had a total blast being Dennis's Navi this weekend. The "Over the Pass" reg was great fun as Dennis and I were the first car to lead the way through the snow. I'll have my pictures up sometime this week.

chris
11-25-2008, 12:29 PM
Can't wait to see some pictures! :)

If you have a press release Nicki, let me know. I'm sure Frank will get it published for you!

Thanks,

Francisco
11-27-2008, 01:42 PM
Totem was great. Paul and Nicki did an excellent job organizing the event, as usual, and all the competitors seemed to have enjoyed themselves thoroughly! We had a few interesting moments on Saturday that could have easily led to sweep needing to get swept, but we managed to get through the tricky stuff (slowly but surely) with no problems.

Nicki was an awesome navigator and I'm glad I got the chance to help out this past weekend. Stoked for T-Bird!!!

For those of you who haven't already, click here to see the official results for Totem 2008 (http://www.rallybc.com/archives/2008/2008_Totem.htm).

Francisco
11-27-2008, 01:45 PM
Looking forward to seeing your pictures, Mel!