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Workers waiting for the race to begin. That's a portable ham radio tower of N1PKP behind his truck for our relay station at the 7.6 mile mark. The volunteer workers were from Connecticut.   It was kind of cold and windy. We were at about the half way point in case we had to relay messages between the start and finish. Our Unimog Funkwagan Radio Van. I had two 2 meter radios set up, one for the primary frequency, the other the secondary. We didn't have to do much as the reception was good enough for communication from the start point to the finish point of the race.

Same picture, bigger. The Deuce and a half heater I installed in the rear and the Jeep heater in the front made a big difference.

Both parts of the Mog stayed warm.

A "Ham" lunch being cooked. Tower mount attached to hitch receiver.

The tower set up with guy ropes.

One of the course officcial cars. They blew two tires. It was a bad day for tires (tyres to you Brits).

Sharp rocks were frozen in the ruts of the logging roads, easily slicing tires.

We tried to save them with air from the Unimog, but the slices were too large to repair.

They got out with the loan of a "doughnut" spare from another official and their spare.

Stage two of the race. I was too busy to get any pics of stage one.

Four stages run on almost the same road may not sound like much of a rally, but believe me, it was!

The punishment to drivers and cars was tremendous due to the road and weather conditions.

The snow was about ankle deep and had become a hard packed sort of ice on the road, which had deep

ruts from trucks before it froze. Judging by the divots to the sides in the snow, dirt, rocks, trees and

boulders, I would say many cars left the road many times. We heard of several on the radio.

John Buffum, of Vermont organized this race. We thank him for his leadership and efforts without

which this event would not have happened.

This, from Vermont SportsCar's website:

John Buffum, Rally Legend:
John Buffum is widely regarded as the greatest North American rally driver ever and has driven to a record 11 National ProRally Championships. Buffum also brought Hyundai USA six ProRally Manufacturer's Championships as Team Manager of Hyundai Rally Team USA. Buffum joined Vermont SportsCar in early 2003 to work as the Event Coordinator for Team Mitsubishi Motor Sports America. He plans the team's race strategy and mentors the team drivers.

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An instant following taking this picture, this car left the road to the right.

Running down to push between cars passing by.

In deeper, now what are we gonna do?

Deeper still. Oh well, might as well take a picture of this mess.

They got it out! Perservance pays off!

The run back before the next car.

The race becomes more interesting as one car is overtaking another.

And two more closely following.

Pit stops are where you find 'em in rally racing. This car ins coming in with a blown tire (tyre).

Getting on with it.

Another racer passes by.

Another racer zooms by.

The tire looks to be "beyond repair"

Back in the car and off! Not to mention the hurdles the workers have to overcome!

Drifting around the corner at high speed.

Still sort of sideways.

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