Salt Quality

[joea]

Greg notice folks arent out here whining about what the BUB
meet folks are going to do and leave on the salt to effect
World of Speed a week after bub, and the Oct World Finals meet....
the private FIA meet and Fossets private time.....etc......

most at your Boogy-Boogy speed multiplied by 2-3+

Joe

[JackD]

You might want to be a little careful.
Sami reads this also and with 40 + years of racing and many on the salt, She won't pause a moment before setting you straight.

[JohnR]

Ahh. Classic case of male menopause.

don't you mean MANopause?

[Dean Los Angeles]

Hey Bret! Nice info.

Do I have this right?
What is preventing driving on the salt? It's 20 miles from the end of the road.

[JackD]

The darker areas shown West of and near Floating Mountain are not suitable for traffic like an event would generate.
You can see the encroaching mud (silt) from the mountain range to the West as it slowly replaces the missing salt and reduces the usable area for LSR. 

[Bret Kepner]

Hey Bret! Nice info. Do I have this right? What is preventing driving on the salt? It's 20 miles from the end of the road.

You have it right, Dean. As Jack pointed out, the only access from the south would be through the pass between Floating Island and Mount Cobb and, as I pointed out, we all know the quality of the salt through that pass...none. It's a thin crust under which lies miles of mud.

The only access would be on the Donner Freeway on the north side of the Silver Island Range and I can tell you from experience that would be a three-hour drive for a truck and trailer if it was passable at all.

[aswracing]

As shown above, there's a line that *appears* to be a road, extending from the freeway to Floating Island. Zooming up close, it appears to go around Floating Island and then shoot across to the Silver Island range.

Any possibility of access on this road?

[JackD]

In the lower left of that shot, you can see the access road that we use  clearly.
The little speck is SSS standing, not sitting like it looks, and waving for help.
It seem He was determined to claim My Hodaka for his own.
East of that is a line that is less well defined (clear), that line is the dyke that everybody has run up to.
The line from the highway and the shorter one going west from Floating mountain is a dyke.
When the salt is thin, it looks every bit as good as thin ice on a pond.
At that point, you have to either think or be ready to swim.

[Bret Kepner]

Ummm,yeah...that's a dike. (Different spelling for different things, Jack  )

Even if it were a road, it'd be the worst possible access unless every vehicle had a spotter walking in front of it...which we've actually done many times in that area!

The Donner Highway is elevated about 70 feet off the salt along the bottom of the Silver Island range; it actually makes a complete loop around the Silver Island Mountains. Total trip, if I remember correctly, is 77 miles from the Bend In The Road.