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Its the one time I've pulled off because I didn't think it was worth it. The only dust I've seen worse is desert silt. Pretty classic NorCal coastal hills MX; beautiful at Fall/Winter/early Spring, hard pack and dusty Summer
They also had difficulty getting ambulances in and out; a couple of hour plus breaks waiting on new ambulance after someone else carted off.
So much potential in that track, but wrong time and not enough infrastructure to compensate.
The Shop
I will commend them on the fact they watered the track during the middle of the day. Only a select few places will water the track in the middle of the day during summer.
Built a track in slat/red clay. Had no way to water anything except the start. You would leave the start and sweep over a hill. Once you went over the hill it was a dust bowl.
It had a bottom straight that went along a ditch that they had pushed trees into when they built the track. During a race a guy came up missing. His gf was raising holy hell and finally convinced them to hold up racing. He had run off into that ravine. He hit one of the down trees and snapped the steering head on his cr 500. He was just coming to when they found him.
Trees everywhere along the track, stumps on the edges, and dust so blinding and choking that if you didn't get the holeshot you were lost.
I know sometimes us older guys wax sentimental about the good old days but I can honestly tell you when I think about that place I dont know wtf we were doing racing there.
Motocross has changed a lot, and not all bad.
Now quit your whinning.
Hard pack, absolutely horrible if it was moist in any way.
Irrigation culverts and pipes that at one point were buried under the surface but had worked their way up.
The "fill" for the jumps was old hunks of concrete, cinder blocks, tires etc... Always awesome to try and remember where on the landings there was a giant hole edged with square blocks of concrete... It was the last place I rode at with a legit whoop section though, which is something I wish more tracks had.
At one point, it was obviously a really great place to go, but they had let it go.
Pit Row
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