Quick Steamboat comment

[kappa@travelin.com]

   While I'm sure Chris will be posting up the report on our last two trips to 
CO in the next day or so, I feel obliged to defend myself (ever so) slightly.

I've been slandered! Well, maybe not.  But I don't want the whole list getting 
the right, err... wrong idea about my driving or judgement.  I will say this:

1st- the vehicle driven out and used for this event was specifically chosen.  It 
had minor body damage going into the event, and was therefore the logical 
sacrifice out of the combined fleet.

2nd- several of the east coast i-qlister's who were unable to trek out due to 
various reasons made me promise to enjoy myself enough for them as well.  I did 
try to create a certain Bob D'Amato effect on one of my passengers, but alas, 
this poor fellow from Colorado Springs only laughed harder and enjoyed the ride 
as I tried to create lines where previously there were snowbanks.  Besides, Chad 
helped me spot various pieces of my car as they went AWOL...

3rd- I can safely say I may have gotten _slightly_ overzealous when another 
lister showed me his lines, and how well the banks could/should be used to scrub 
speed as needed.  A little less enthusiasm may have kept me from getting sucked 
in so often, which lead to parts losses and unintended 360's.  But the Hakka's 
and a little help got me out of every snowbank I stuff the little 4KQ into.


Thought for next year...  For those of you who ski, I may have found a little 
ski excursion for next time.  Coming over Loveland pass, not through the tunnel, 
it occurred to Chris and I that if you parked a vehicle at one of the many 
pulloff areas on the east side of the pass, you could drive a second vehicle up 
to the pulloff at the summit/divide.  You would then have some decent 
extreme/tree skiing down however many thousand vertical feet to where you parked 
the first vehicle.... Hmmm.


-Stott Hare   (YES, STOTT!)
'84 4Ksq

BLACK & blue and lighter/whiter for the experience...

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