May 3rd Cinco De Mayo Hells Gate Run

If it was completely up to me, I would say yes bump it, it would be a good idea, save every couple like 20 bucks.  I imagine they will have lots more stuff as they are expecting lots of people because of the freebie.   We will probably want to bump the start time up a bit for the event to make sure we all get back here early enough to wind down and get to sleep for Monday work day.

Ahh shoot.. Sunday May 3rd is an AutoX day w/ the UBSCC :(

I'd have to flip a coin to see which one I goto lol

I will be going to Hells Gate on Sunday (May 3rd), but not in my Fiero.  I will be taking my family with me.   I won't leave the Vancouver area until around lunchtime though, so hope to see the Fieros there. 

Just found out that I can't make the run on Sunday, Pooh Stink.

Sorry....I was really looking forward to this 

FieroZen

 

 

Note the section between Hope and Boston Bar, that is where all the fun is going to be had, there is not 1km of that road that is straight, and the area between Hells Gate and Boston bar is one hell of an elevation climb through some of the best roads around.

I was there...but went later in the afternoon.   I did spot the group. Looks like 6 of you went?    I tried to get pix of you coming back, but you were
all separated and I'm still learning to work with the shutter delays of digital cameras.   So sorry, David, the picture that I took of your yellow 88
turned out to be the pick-up truck behind you.


Here are the two I got that looked like Fieros.....

 

                  Ok here is the link to the main gallery of pics.  There are almost no pics of the cars together, so I hope Tristan, Austin and Tim  got lots of pics.    http://captfiero.com/HellsGate2009/

There are 136 pics in the gallery.   I did get video but it was 90% side streets around Boston Bar.  Few quick clips as we drove around the group.   Video is here, http://captfiero.com/videos/club_runs/bostonbar.wmv   Its 100mb at 640x480 only about 10 seconds of Fieros though.

Ok now back to posting.

 

Hey Ken no problem on missing my car.   The return run got kinda divided up, Tim said he wanted to do some shopping and looking around, Lisa and I wanted to make a couple special side trips around Boston Bar.  (never really clued in on it, but my Dad asked me to snap a few pics of some specific areas, turned out I lived in Boston Bar when I was 1-2 years old)  

         Tristan in his 86GT, Austin in his 86GT and Austins friend took off and headed down the mountain ahead.  As much fun as it was hot dogging with the group, it was kind nice to cruise along and see the sites with the wife, granted she did dozed off a couple times. (I better duck now, as something is going to get thrown at me when she reads this)

                      It was a rather small group, as a lot of the regulars had things that came up and were not able to attend.   With Arlington just around the corner I hope everyone gets there cars out and dusted off.   This was a great shakedown run.   I don't think we had a single mechanical issue on the entire drive. 

  I don't know if you caught my post on the email list, but ya the crowd at the Tram was HUGE as we drove by on our way out.   When we got there 1st thing in the morning, we had our choice of parking and darn near walked right into the tram.  There was no wait at all, only wait was for them to get the tram door open for us.     I do have to say thank you for the heads up on the free day, I was amazed to see the price has gone up again, $17 per adult now to go on a regular day. 

         For the 1st time since we have been doing this run, I actually walked all the way across the bridge and up the trail a bit.  Kinda neat.   I'll post whatever pics I can.  Crap that reminds me, BRB

(heading to the top of the post)

           Ok pics and video link is posted.    Now where was I, .......

Oh ya, bridge thing, we walked across it, darn near froze ourselves, I can't believe how out of shape I am, we got about 100ft up the hill, I said to hell with this, sat down on a rock, light up a smoke and relaxed with the view.  Yes I do see the irony of that.   We got some ice cream, ya whats goes best if you are freezing, Ice Cream..........

So we got done our munchies took some more pics and raced up to a place called Alpine Village Restaurant, got some grub and then got on our own ways back down the mountain.

          Ok now that I have babbled for the better part of 10 Min's, I'll try to pick out some of the better pics and head to bed.    Talk to ya all at the meeting.

Hey guys, finally got around to posting my pictures. They're all here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=254669&id=58486020 3&saved

Enjoy.

I didn't want to compress ~30 images. Sorry. lol