Thank you for sharing these Larry.
My brother has a desire to go to this event as do I.
I shared the thread with him. He's without power today due to the fires in Nor Cal today. He did look at the thread on his phone though and really liked it.
Great pics, what do you shoot with?
These were taken with a Nikon Z7 and Leica 28mm Elmarit-R, Nikon 58/1.4G, or Contarex 180mm/2.8. Strange mix, I know.
It’s definitely out of the way, but you should both go sometime. Worth bearing in mind that, though the dates are fixed on the calendar, they run this “depending on the condition of the salt”, which means you might show up there, and they won’t run. Unlikely, as there is usually sufficient advance warning, but it happens. This year they didn’t run the first two days of the schedule, and they quit running a day early due to conditions. Salt wasn’t ideally dry and hard, and it began breaking up.
That’s another reason I found it remarkable, people drag cars, bikes and motorhomes there from all over the world without even being sure they will get to run or not, or, if they run, if salt conditions will be good enough to actually get into the record books. The lady I referenced earlier, who has been going for a decade and had driven her car down from New Jersey, told me that one year everybody showed up, and conditions were “day to day” and the whole week went by with no runs being done. She said everybody sat around telling war stories day to day, had a good time, then went home and waited till next year.
It’s a very collegial, low key atmosphere; very friendly.
