It's been a week now, so I think that I've recovered enough to recap the Maple Leaf Winter Rally, held last week in Bancroft.

First, a huge thank you to all the workers, who manned the checkpoints, the radar, the scoring, the course cars, etc. And especially to Ross, who recruited the crews and orchestrated the moves like a master chess player. Thank you all.

Thank you to all the teams who entered. From what I hear, most every one seemed to enjoy themselves.
There were a few offs that we heard about, and one trip down a snowmobile trail that cut one team's rally short. Yes, they got out the next day. Other teams helped pull cars out of snowbanks when they could.

We had two crews come up from the states to partake of our own particular kind of rally madness. You can read Frank Beyer's and Steve Mckelvie's stories from their respective seats here http://nescca.com/nescca_main/rrreportmlw.pdf and here http://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/speed-costs-us-at-the-maple-leaf-w.... Frank is from New York, and Steve came all the way from the Boston area. As well we had Dave and Neil Guertin come in from Vermont.

I will be sending an email to all crews with a short survey. I'm looking for feedback about the various aspects of the rally so that Jane and I can improve on it for next year.

Congrats to
1st expert - Ferd and Christoph Trauttmansdorff
1st intermediate - Richard Krottner and Sue Clark
1st novice - Kevin Schoenwiese and Brian Sexsmith

Full results and scores are posted.

Bruce and Jane Leonard
organizers
MLWR

difficult how? I would assume some pretty hairy CASs.

Jeanne,
Front page of MLRC website, click on link for ML Winter Rally and then at top of that page click on results and voila!
Donna

Thanks, Dave!  

Jeannie

Initially there were to be 14 checkpoints in Leg C. Martin set it up as such, and, when one CP was dropped, left it in his spreadsheet. CP13 is EOR.