Cimarron River District Cub/Scout Mobile Race.
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:49 pm
Wikipeda discribes the Cimarron National Grassland to be a place like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimarron_N ... _Grassland" target="_blank
The U.S. Department of Agriculture & Kansas Travel:
Discribes it as a place where twenty three miles of the Santa Fe Trail cut across the grassland.
(Useing the map seen at the bottom of their web site.)
http://www.kansastravel.org/cimarronnat ... ssland.htm" target="_blank
I'll discribe the very place we held are race out on Cimarron National Grassland.
Just look at the middle of the map for road 16.. see the two charted trail headings?
Were racing right in the middle of these headings.
It was a cold and windy day with the wind blowing out of the north and the temp in uper 30's.
so are turn out for cars wasen't as many as we hoped for.
(With only 3 cars and lots of drivers what do you do?)
We all decided to put the smaller kids on the Cub Mobile car with an adjustable front steering axle.
And the taller kids on the older version.. & to let all the kids that could reach the brake handle..
on the outlaw car that I was told to build for this race .. Race the car.
(And that's just what we did!)
Getting all the cars to cross the finsh line was a little hectic at first with the distance we all were hopeing the cars would go.
But the 3rd time of moving the ramp closer to the finsh line was the charm.
All in all at the end of the day all the effort put forth from all of us to make the race happen..
Was well worth it.. no kids were hurt.. And no cars were crashed.
Though I as the race chairsman was almost ran over..
by a kid who's car turned very sharply while rocketing off the ramp.
The ramp.
The kids helping a troubled racer out.
and a few more photos.
back up the hill:
The kids loved driveing this one.
even us adults had to have are fun!
even the Vice-Chair had to take a run.
more kids in race.
Man could this girl drive she was the outlaw winner!
The Cimarron River District Commissioner
passing out the traveling trophies.
The kids and the trophies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimarron_N ... _Grassland" target="_blank
The U.S. Department of Agriculture & Kansas Travel:
Discribes it as a place where twenty three miles of the Santa Fe Trail cut across the grassland.
(Useing the map seen at the bottom of their web site.)
http://www.kansastravel.org/cimarronnat ... ssland.htm" target="_blank
I'll discribe the very place we held are race out on Cimarron National Grassland.
Just look at the middle of the map for road 16.. see the two charted trail headings?
Were racing right in the middle of these headings.
It was a cold and windy day with the wind blowing out of the north and the temp in uper 30's.
so are turn out for cars wasen't as many as we hoped for.
(With only 3 cars and lots of drivers what do you do?)
We all decided to put the smaller kids on the Cub Mobile car with an adjustable front steering axle.
And the taller kids on the older version.. & to let all the kids that could reach the brake handle..
on the outlaw car that I was told to build for this race .. Race the car.
(And that's just what we did!)
Getting all the cars to cross the finsh line was a little hectic at first with the distance we all were hopeing the cars would go.
But the 3rd time of moving the ramp closer to the finsh line was the charm.
All in all at the end of the day all the effort put forth from all of us to make the race happen..
Was well worth it.. no kids were hurt.. And no cars were crashed.
Though I as the race chairsman was almost ran over..
by a kid who's car turned very sharply while rocketing off the ramp.
The ramp.
The kids helping a troubled racer out.
and a few more photos.
back up the hill:
The kids loved driveing this one.
even us adults had to have are fun!
even the Vice-Chair had to take a run.
more kids in race.
Man could this girl drive she was the outlaw winner!
The Cimarron River District Commissioner
passing out the traveling trophies.
The kids and the trophies