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Rocky Mtn TR Club up Pikes Peak

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If any one is listening, Rocky Mountain Triumph Club is driving up Pikes Peak on Sunday 24 June 2007 at 9:45 am.
Here is the scoop:

<span style="color: #3333FF">Sunday, June 24. Pike's Peak Run. The road should be nicely thawed by now and in good shape for the July 4 hill climb. We haven't done a Pikes Peak drive in quite a while. Please be sure that your cooling system and brakes are in good condition for this one. We will meet at the Shamrock Station at C-470 and Santa Fe at 7:30AM, leave at 8:00AM and take an interesting route (not the one through Palmer Lake this time) to Pikes Peak. You can meet us at the Pikes Peak entry booth at 9:45 if you aren't driving down from Denver. There will be several miles of unpaved road, but then, the 19 miles up Pikes Peak isn't paved either. Entrance is $10.00 per person but we are trying to get a group discount which may bring the cost to $7.00 per person. Please RSVP to Terry Hughes at 303 428-5291 or Andy DeVisscher at 303 452-8806. And please remember to bring warm clothing as it is likely to be cold at the top, even in June. Hopefully we won't get stuck behind a family in a Winnebago eating lunch while they drive.</span>

This is otherwise called the "Drive to the Clouds" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif
About 14110 feet to the top of Pikes Peak. This is the same road that is raced on July 4th, called "Race to the Clouds", done in about 10 minutes, no guard rails and dirt road.

Ought to be a good test out for the drive to VTR.
 
Brooklands said:
How about passenger seat photos through the windshield of the drive?
Enjoy the run up...I have only ever done the Cog Railway to the Peak.

Driven it once a few years back in the Stag, so this will be another opportunity to take a few more photos. Last time up it was so fogged in and snowing, photos would have looked like a Stag on a dirt road with a white sheet for a background.

I am thinking of both a video and some photos, but those are definitely taken by the passenger on that road because a slight diversion on at the wrong moment and you are taking the short rocky route down. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif
 
well the car was ready but we were not. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/nopity.gif
So maybe some of the RMTC group can post some photos.

Perfect day, no clouds, late afternoon thunderstorms and wind in the weather with a high temperature at our elevation - 99F.

That slow decent from 45F at the top into almost 100F in the springs is like driving into an oven.
 
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