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2012 Rally!

People who worry about a lack of air conditioning have obviously never been to the Pacific Northwest in the summer.

That's why we live here. We don't need air conditioning in the summer.

We do need webbed feet in the winter, but we all come pre-equipped with those.

If you don't want to pay jacked-up motel prices, you can rent a room in my house for $100 a night. I'm about 20 minutes from the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. :thumb
 
If you don't want to pay jacked-up motel prices, you can rent a room in my house for $100 a night. I'm about 20 minutes from the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. :thumb

Hell... For a beer ticket you can camp in my yard.

No... Wait... Make that Two Beer Tickets.
If it's here in the PNW there'll be good beer.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_popper/3959296277/" title="Not Mowed. by GrafikFeat, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3959296277_d01f9ec70f_b.jpg" width="1024" height="687" alt="Not Mowed." /></a>

No Worries... I'll mow it in time.
 
:thumb

Thanks for doing this, Jim.

ian

A pleasure Ian.

In all seriousness...
You'd be hard pressed to find a better venue in an area w/ AMAZING riding.
Fire roads for GS... Mountain passes for touring... Small towns on secondary roads for family outings or antiquing...
It really is an awesome area w/ soooo much to offer on all levels.

:lurk
 
T'was a pleasure... I'll go back on a 'sunny' day.
Funny, as this day was.

Anyway... Looking from above I think the huge field to the left can be utilized.
I would think for camping etc. There are plenty of treed grassy areas through out the site so... i know how that goes.

Local camping is awesome and there is a great RV site nearby on Ben Howard Road.
It's right on the Skykomish river. AWESOME SPOT for the RV'er.

Local hotels are like any town. Some are great... Some are 'section 8'.
If this place is chosen I'll write up what's what in the area.
Camping and GSing are primo so that's a given.

In case you couldn't see in the images... There is a food court and bathrooms through out the site. Out buildings abound for seminars etc.
...And a race track... So... A track day?

Anyway... Let's see what happens.
It's great spot in the middle of GREAT riding.
Google North Cascade Loop. =WOW=

Great job scouting the place out !

I like the large parking lot for advanced rider training and the infield.

Is there a dirt field, lot or area were we could have GS events or is this going to be a touring white bearded male rally site ? :whistle A place where we can take alot of GS pictures for photo of the week and ON covers. Say 52 and another 12 large format. Its very important since Tour-a-tec USA is nearby.

:hide

Next prepare a proposal and send it to Chuck Manley...........I don't think he looks at the forum he is too busy out riding. Chuck is part of the Rally Selection Team.

http://www.bmwmoa.org/contact_form/Rally Site Search Liaison/rallysearch

I think the club needs 2000 hotel rooms available within 20-25 miles of the site. Allow beer sales................and lots of food.

Everything else looks great. :thumb:thumb ;) I would love to attend a rally in that part of the country.
 
Downtown Seattle is 30 miles away as the crow flies, so that certainly won't be a problem.

Sultan, Bothell, Snohomish, Everett, Woodinville...

All of this will be covered if this site is ever chosen.

We should never have a "5R"

Ride, Rally, Relax, Redmond,
Repeat.

Not when there are venues like this out here.
 
Have you looked into whether or not the Evergreen State Fairgrounds has availability for the third weekend in July every year? Seems a place like that might already be booked with annual events every weekend.
 
People who worry about a lack of air conditioning have obviously never been to the Pacific Northwest in the summer.

That's why we live here. We don't need air conditioning in the summer.

We do need webbed feet in the winter, but we all come pre-equipped with those.

If you don't want to pay jacked-up motel prices, you can rent a room in my house for $100 a night. I'm about 20 minutes from the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. :thumb

That sounds jacked up to me. I'll camp in GrafikFeat's jungle! :nyah
 
Have you looked into whether or not the Evergreen State Fairgrounds has availability for the third weekend in July every year? Seems a place like that might already be booked with annual events every weekend.

Not my 'yob main'.

I've done my part. :love

this venue info has been forwarded to the rally site search team and the process has begun. there will be discussions at the upcoming Board meeting and a site visit will be arranged.

the site visit report employs a set of evaluative criteria that has been defined over the years. open dates are one of those criteria.

if all that checks out, the site search team makes a referral to the site selection team, and more formal talks with the venue get started. if those go as we need in terms of budget and other rally must-haves, a contact is signed and Rally Chairs selected.

this can happen reasonably fast, but sometimes it takes a while for a venue to fit into the rotation. that's why we like to have multiple options for sites within the various rotation areas. contracts fall through for lots of reasons and it is good to have options. (fwiw, that is how Redmond II came about)

we really need lots of people looking for and referring sites, and this forum is a great way to do that.

thanks again, GrafikFeat for taking time to do this preliminary site visit.

ian
 
I've always said: "If you don't vote, don't complain".
I'm learning that the majority of my mistakes I make here are by myself not having enough information.
One such is the process of site selection.
That being said. Don't complain about a rally location if you've not participated a selection process. And by location I don't mean the rotation.

At this point if Monroe, WA gets declined for what ever reason at least I participated in the process and got it to be 'considered'.
To be honest it was actually kinda cool to be able to do it.
It's selfish to think how many people it would effect it in fact gets selected.
Effected in a positive way.
Like the National Rally being 16.5 miles from home! Ha! :laugh

Seriously though... If you know of a place... Go take a ride out and take some pictures.
The majority of my 80 images were shot from the saddle.

There is another site down in Enumclaw, WA
I meant to see that's in the shadow of Mount Rainier.
It may be too small though...
Next Week, perhaps...
 
this venue info has been forwarded to the rally site search team and the process has begun. there will be discussions at the upcoming Board meeting and a site visit will be arranged. the site visit report employs a set of evaluative criteria that has been defined over the years. open dates are one of those criteria. if all that checks out, the site search team makes a referral to the site selection team, and more formal talks with the venue get started. if those go as we need in terms of budget and other rally must-haves, a contact is signed and Rally Chairs selected.

When did NASA take over the rally site selection process? :hide
 
OK.....

So, today in the MOA board meeting, the site of the 2012 International Rally was announced. It is more than 8 hours later and I haven't heard one remark on the site chosen, or even someone telling everyone where it will be. Is everyone asleep??? :dunno

tb
 
Sedalia, Missouri
July 19-22, 2012

Then it is on a rotational basis.
2013 is in the "West"
2014, 15 and 16 are in different coloured sections of the map (?- anyone?)

addn'l info from the webcast

2014- Red area
2015- Zone 2
2016- Yellow area

Anybody got the map?
 
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OK.....

So, today in the MOA board meeting, the site of the 2012 International Rally was announced. It is more than 8 hours later and I haven't heard one remark on the site chosen, or even someone telling everyone where it will be. Is everyone asleep??? :dunno

tb

Now that the place isn't a secret any more, what about the dates?????
 
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