Oregon Trail Pro Rally 2007
 

Chasing rally cars, so this has been my activity as of late.

The weekend before last was the Oregon Trail Rally. I'm a member of a volunteer group referred to as Sweep. We are the team that handles emergency response on stage during the rally. When we get the call we race down course and respond. Pulling cars out of ditches, flipping them over, medical response (we have 1-2 EMT ride alongs in each vehicle), whatever needs to be done.

It's a volunteer based group, so its easy for me to be able to do with basically no budget for it, other than having to get a HAM radio license. It's quite a bit of fun.

Here's some pictures, they arent the best but its hard to get much when youre working. If anyone is a WA local, you might wanna check out the Olympus Rally coming up next month. Pretty fun to watch Travis Pastrana and Ken Block and the other pro's rip thru the woods at high speeds.

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looks fun as hell. always been a fan of rally

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I want to go to a rally ive never been too one :-\

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haah fling pu racing. i bet who ever thought of that gets a lot of ---- thrown at him......... ;D

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head out to olympus and spectate, you'll love it.

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Rally racing has always looked fun as hell to me. Wish I had a lot of money to throw at a car so I can abuse it as much as possible and not care. The only rally racing I've seen here in alabama is neighbors racing their lawnmowers through ditches. I'd be happy with just riding with a rally racer.

Rally racing is on my list of things to do.

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reading the title i thought they where bringing the game back :3...WEAK

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ditto

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Right on man. I didn't get a chance to go to any of the stages, but I went to the closing ceremonies.

Looks like it was a lot of fun!

My pics aren't that fun, we've all seen rally cars before, but here are a few anyways...

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EF represent!

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God damn right. Is it FWD?

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My dad has a HAM radio license....he's had it forever.....so what kind of vehicles will be running the olympus rally? I might go watch that

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Everything from Travis Pastrana and Ken Block in $80,000 built STI's to Seattle's own Demon Rally Team in an old school Rabbit running the Max Attack 2WD class.

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hmmmm....you gonna go watch it?

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non vee-tack FTW bitches, LS fo Life

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They won their class too. The driver said the motor is stock, said they spent like $600 on it. But they spent over $3000 per corner on the suspension setup. Just goes to show how important suspension is in a rally car.

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No I will be there working. After a stage is completed, you will see my group blasting down the course clearing all the cars that are wrecked or broken with OK signs out. That is unless of course we get reports of injuries then we have to interrupt the stage.

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i bet the had to add a ---- load of bracing to the rear susp, especially the LCA mounts. do you know about what they did custom wise to the susp??

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thats awesome....i'll have to hit up the rally, and maybe i'll catch ya afterwords

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ive got my liscense. havent used it in prolly 8 years tho... kc8mtk

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Someone called me the acid man today. KE7LSD ...heh

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I was there! I did road block! keep people from comming in through the back roads. It was pretty tight.

That EF fucken hauled ass!! I was real impressed.

At the corner I was guarding. We had a spectator that got too close to the course. A car slid right by and sent a nice rock into his head. His forehead swelled up about the size of a goose egg!! ;D ;D ;D ;D >:D

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yeah, my dad has his on his licence plate...i was going to get mine a while back, but i really doubt i would use it.

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What not to do at PIR...

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you have died of dysentary

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Me and jimmy were thinkin of throwing one of his 1st gens together or an old datsun truck and entering the olympus rally, but then we saw how much it would cost to enter. we were just going to cage it, throw bucket seats in, harneses, put big fog lights on the front, and gut it and call it a day....it was like $200 per person and we think that its a lil too short of notice, but theirs always next year >:D

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;D Hi yall yes it is kinda fun to spectate.Yes me and the creator have been there,we worked the pit crew for one of the rally guys.He has the audi quattro 5cyl turbo charged.He has had it flipped over and we had to go get him out of a 50ft ravein.Worked till 3am to get it going for the next day.I will get some photos upload of the last rally we did.Missed out on this last one.

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Yeah it gets pretty hardcore out there. The last Rally put a driver down a Ravine over 200ft. Took a class B wrecker and about 200-225ft of winch line to get it out. Our Sweep captain was out there until about 1am.

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yea they have basically no use nowadays. i got mine when i was ten years old, and prolly used it for 2 years and havent touched it since

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Well, I wouldn't say no use.

We use the hell out of it, and then there's always the ARES and RACES group.

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Here's a good sequence from the pic above, apparently its hard to turn when airborn, haha

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They have all kinds of uses like my dad always listens to the police scanner and the fire department and the emt's....he doesn't really talk on it toomuch though...i remember back when iw as going to get mine, (i think i was like 8 or 9) and back then you had to know morse code, but my dad was telling me you don't have to now

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There's only morse code testing now in the "extra" license. There are two levels before that that are alot easier to acquire. I have a technician license, and then the next one up is the general license, which I'm told covers alot of frquency stuff.

The technician is easy to get, basically repeat the practice tests until you are getting high scores consistently, then go take the test.

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i didn't know they had different levels. so what is the extent of your use with the technician license?

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I forget what the actual terms are anymore, but IIRC, there are two different types of ham radios. Technician allows you to do it locally. Basically range is <50 miles or something. Other way is bounced off the atmosphere and you can talk overseas and such. I've only done the second kind once, as a guest on someone else's call sign.

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There are several types of setups, 2 meter, 440, 6 meter, 10 meter, etc...

There are also ways to talk via IRLP using the internet to link nodes