Rally Instructions, Esmeralda Rally X

Fall, 1997


Team Number _______

CheckPoints

 

All CheckPoints will be "passage points". This means that if you see one (and you may not see them all (heh, heh, heh)), don't stop; you will be clocked as you pass. Errors in arrival time at CheckPoints are NOT cumulative. That is, each leg of the Rally stands alone -- this is to your advantage. If you have an error at CheckPoint 1, you start "clean" at that point for the next leg.

 

There may also be "on-your-honor" CheckPoints (unmanned) where you will be asked to record your Rally time at that point. Be sure to write down time-of-day (NOT elapsed rally time) using both minutes AND seconds at any such CheckPoints.

 

Penalties

Penalty points are assessed as follows:

 

For each second EARLY at a CheckPoint 2 (to discourage speeding)

For each second LATE at a CheckPoint 1

Maximum LATE penalty at a CheckPoint 300

Missing a CheckPoint 600

Missing an asked question or photo 50

Headlights off at CheckPoint 100

Seat belts unfastened at finish or CheckPoint 500

Receipt of a citation or having an accident Disqualification

 

If you get lost...

 

If you get lost, try to rejoin the course and make allowance for time lost. If you get so hopelessly lost that you give up, open your Emergency Envelope. A map of the area is enclosed showing the final destination and the phone number. Remember that if you open the Emergency Envelope you are disqualified.

 

Equipment

The only equipment allowed for the Rally is pencil, paper, watch, and calculator. If you have fancy rally computation equipment, leave it at home. We suggest plenty of paper and a clipboard.

 

Average speed

AT NO TIME SHOULD YOU EXCEED THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT!

 

Rest stop/Free Zone

There will be an opportunity to refuel and/or drain biological tanks during the course.

 

Rally Rules

The following general rules are absolute:

 

1. Write your team number in the space provided above and on the Photo Sheets.

 

2. Follow each instruction until the next one takes over.

 

3. Write the answers to questions asked in the spaces provided.

 

4. Unpaved (dirt or gravel) roads DO NOT EXIST for rally purposes.

 

5. Driveways, dead ends, entrances to parking lots, shopping centers and so forth also do not exist for rally purposes.

 

    1. The terms "overpass" and "underpass" are from your point of view; that is, an overpass is where another road passes OVER your course of travel.
    2. When you encounter a place where it is possible to turn but there’s no instruction to do so, stay on the main road you’re on.

Terms

These terms will be found in your rally instructions; they simply permit standard abbreviations.

 

cm "course marker" Used only to reassure you that you are on course. A cm can be on either side of the road unless the instruction says differently. cms are easily visible from the car. If the cm appears in quotation marks it means "sign that says" rather than the object itself. For example:

 

cm "Winslow Church" means "sign that says Winslow Church"

cm Winslow Church means the church itself

 

bear go in a direction of less than 90 degrees to your present direction of travel as, "bear left". (An alternative meaning is "large fierce animal" but we won't normally use that one on the rally).

 

acute a turn considerably more than 90 degrees to your present direction of travel.

 

Y intersection an intersection shaped like the letter "Y" where you are approaching the fork in the "Y" from the bottom leg. You can only bear right or left at a Y intersection.

 

T intersection an intersection shaped like the letter "T" where you are approaching from the bottom leg. At a T intersection you can only turn.

 

cast means "change average speed to". Change your average speed to

the reading given and maintain that speed until further notice.

 

opportunity for rally purposes, an "opportunity" is a valid street or road. For example, "turn left at the third opportunity past cm Winslow Church" would mean to turn left at the third PAVED road past the Winslow Church. Driveways, dead ends, parking lot entrances and, of course, dirt or gravel roads are NOT opportunities.

 

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START

1

Enter I-85 North

cast 64.1

2

cm Exit 46

     

3

Right @ 4th opp

     

4

Right @ top of ramp

cast 38.7

   

5

cm Faith Baptist Church

     

6

cm traffic signal

     

7

cm traffic signal

     

8

Right @ 2nd opp

     

9

Right @ 1st opp

cast 46.5

   

10

cm Woodbine Cemetery

     

11

Right @ 1st opp

     

12

Bear right @ Y intersection

     

13

cm Jackson EMC

     

14

cm Round Barn Furniture

     

15

cm Jackson Memorial Gardens

 

Q: What does it say beneath the bible?

 

 

16

cm "Commerce City Limit"

cast 34.6

   

17

Left @ 7th opp (cross over RR tracks)

     

18

Left @ 1st opp

     

19

Right @ 1st opp (cross over RR tracks)

     

20

cm Massey’s Produce Barn

cast 50.4

   

21

cm Log’s Bar-B-Q & Stew

cast 39.8

   

22

Right @ Vivian’s Antiques

     

23

cm Grove River

cast 50.2

   

24

Right @ 4th opp

     

25

cm: Army Tank

     

26

Left @ 3rd opp

     

 

 

27

cm House with blue awnings

 

Q: How many blue awnings on the house?

 

 

 

28

Left @ 1st opp

     

29

cm New Salem United Methodist Church

     

30

Bear right at Y intersection

     

31

cm "Friendly Bob’s Auction"

     

32

cm Carnesville Church of God

     

33

Left @ 1st opp

     

34

cm Hopewell Presbyterian Church

     

35

   

Q: How old was Susie Wheeler when she died?

 

 

36

cm Traffic light

     

37

cm Sunnyside Baptist Church

cast 34.4

   

38

Right @ 13th opp

     

39

cm Tabor Motor Company

     

40

cm Lone Oak Motel

cast 53.4

   

41

cm state line

     

42

   

Q: What does Mr. Morehead do?

 

 

43

cm Corinth Baptist Church

cast 34.4

   

44

Left @ traffic light

     

45

Cm Colonel’s Fork Creek

     

46

Left @ 2nd traffic light

 

The Free Zone is exactly one mile; you have 30 minutes to cover that mile. You should pass the Little Texas Tavern exactly 30 minutes after the time you wrote down above.

 

Start Free Zone. Write the time-of-day here:

 

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Note: Use time-of-day, not your elapsed rally time!

 

47

cm Little Texas Tavern

cast 40.4

   

48

cm Stumphouse Ranger Station

     

49

Bear left at Y intersection

cast 33.3

   

50

cm Monte Vista Baptist Church

     

51

cm Mountain Rest Baptist Church

     

52

Bear left at Y intersection (do not follow GA28 N)

53

cm "Overflow Creek Road"

     

54

cm small lake on left

cast 42.4

   

55

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Q: If she weren’t a SEAL, what would Demi fight here?

 

 

56

cm Battle Branch Baptist Church

     

57

Right at Stop Sign

     

58

cm Virginia’s Kitchen

     

59

cm "Pure"

     

60

Left @ 4th opp (Hint: Rock & Roll)

cast 30.1

61

cm Mountain City United Methodist Church

     

62

Left @ 1st opp

     

63

Left @ 1st opp

     

64

Right @ 2nd opp

cast 44.1

   

65

cm Mtn. Mama

     

66

Right @ 1st opp

     

67

cm Blue Ridge Motel

     

68

Right @ 5th opp

cast 30.2

   

69

Left @ 1st opp

     

70

Left @ 4th opp

     

71

FINISH!

     

 


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