Topic: Pikes Peak Hill Climb (Read 1008 times)

chrispy · « **on:** July 15, 2008, 05:19:34 PM »

Just a reminder that the Hill Climb is this Sunday.

http://www.ppihc.com/

Hanging out at the ski hill, as usual.

Scott · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2008, 06:31:22 PM »

Ski Hill??

SwiftMKIII · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2008, 06:58:46 PM »

Yeah, I even looked at the Hill Climb Website and couldn't find Ski Hill

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Smokestack · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2008, 07:09:52 PM »

$40 for Gen admin? I was seriously thinking about taking Jen to this until I saw that! I'd pay up to $50 for the two of us but not $80.

Ski Hill - 10,900ft. It's across from the "Map Legend". I always camped at Devils Playground myself.

VWO4L · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2008, 07:19:07 PM »

Damn, I've lived here all my life and have never once made it to the Hill Climb. Used to be tougher though when it was on July 4th.

Won't make it this year either, leaving to New Mexico for the weekend on Friday morning. Sucks too, I had wanted to check out the Fan Fest they will have downtown Friday night.

http://www.ppihc.com/content.aspx?tabid=6&contentid=179 Not much info there, but the Gazette had something about it last week.

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2008 Fan Fest

Friday, July 18, 2008

5:00pm to 10:00pm

Tejon Street between Kiowa and Colorado

On a different note, I also kind of wanted to see Billy Bob Thornton at the Thirsty Parrot Friday night, and I'd have liked to go to Denver for the Mile High Music Fest. Just a bad wekend to have a family reunion I guess.

chrispy · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2008, 07:28:09 PM »

"Ski Area", sorry.

SwiftMKIII · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2008, 07:35:31 PM »

Quote from: chrispy on July 15, 2008, 07:28:09 PM

"Ski Area", sorry.

So, I still missed Ski Area when I looked at the map. Good thing I invested in a GPS for traveling

chrispy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2008, 10:07:54 PM »

@ 10,900. Ft. Relaxing area. Bring chair, towel, & beer.
Too many beers in tonight to give proper instructions.. ..
will communicate tomorrow.

Corrado Adolescent · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2008, 10:26:32 PM »

got my tickets today and my camping pass
the highest they will let you camp is glen cove. im just gonna wake up really early to make it to the playground

Corrado Adolescent · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2008, 07:17:23 PM »

just noticed that Nobuhiro "monster" Tajima is coming back to attempt to break the 10 min mark. and apparently so is rhys millen

slownomore · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2008, 08:33:12 PM »

Rhys Millen and his cars are down in Motor City at the Pontiac dealer a few doors down from me.. Ive seen them playing with evos all week up and down motor city drive.

Amarao · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2008, 09:48:12 PM »

I'll be at Devil's Playground on Sunday. Hopefully the weather is good, I went to the peak on Monday and it was snowing.

Lady at the front gate asked if I was gonna race my way up.

lol

Giggidy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 18, 2008, 03:28:40 AM »

I saw some of those tractor(trailor) trucks getting prepped it looked like right before you would get into manitou on cimmaron by the bridge for 24

GTiGuy · « **Reply #13 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:14:23 AM »

Usually you can drive through manitou and see a bunch of them.

I'll be going up late sat. night and i'll be around glen cove

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Corrado Adolescent · « **Reply #14 on:** July 18, 2008, 08:36:30 PM »

eric gimme a call or shoot me a text I'll be camping in the corrado at glen cove
719-244-2964

fotograf · « **Reply #15 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:13:52 PM »

I'll probably be up at Glen Cove or Ski Area at 4 in the morning. I just need to find somewhere to sleep in my car overnight...

Amarao · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2008, 10:34:25 PM »

Everyone have a good time? Sadly a lot of red flags this year, anyone hear if the drivers are OK?

fotograf · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2008, 10:37:26 PM »

It was a lot of fun. The last I heard was that the co-driver was being transported to a Denver hospital...

Note to self: next year bring sunscreen and use it!

punkrider99 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 20, 2008, 10:39:37 PM »

um yeah how about some pics?

fotograf · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2008, 10:40:15 PM »

They will come...

punkrider99 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2008, 10:45:23 PM »

soon?

fotograf · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2008, 10:46:25 PM »

hopefully, but no promises.

Amarao · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2008, 11:24:35 PM »

Should have a few put up by sometime tomorrow.

Scott · « **Reply #23 on:** July 21, 2008, 06:28:38 AM »

Here are some that Boki posted on Audiworld...

Scott · « **Reply #24 on:** July 21, 2008, 06:29:13 AM »

Is it me, or does the boot on the turbo look like a 16v VW intake boot?

chrispy · « **Reply #25 on:** July 21, 2008, 07:29:08 AM »

Here's mine.

http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/chrispy808/ppihc/

Smokestack · « **Reply #26 on:** July 21, 2008, 08:35:08 AM »

Quote from: Scott on July 21, 2008, 06:29:13 AM

Is it me, or does the boot on the turbo look like a 16v VW intake boot?

Some type of CIS boot for sure.

Corrado Adolescent · « **Reply #27 on:** July 21, 2008, 10:40:08 AM »

Quote from: fotograf on July 20, 2008, 10:37:26 PM

Note to self: next year bring sunscreen and use it!

yeah my face looks like a tomato.
i have lots of pictures but it will take to long to upload here are some of my favorites

Amarao · « **Reply #28 on:** July 21, 2008, 03:17:12 PM »

Is this the car that crashed 10ft outside the starting line?

Smokestack · « **Reply #29 on:** July 21, 2008, 04:32:16 PM »

It's weird seeing that road paved now. I'm used to seeing cars going sideways around those corners.

punkrider99 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 21, 2008, 04:52:04 PM »

no that's not the car. that's lisa klassen's evo. she's a solo driver. the car that crashed was nate and brandye conley. they were in a yellow subie wagon.

fotograf · « **Reply #31 on:** July 21, 2008, 10:35:50 PM »

900+ photos to sort through, almost 4gigs worth. I still have some to go through and edit, but here are some to start it off.

The vintage cars:

The bikes:

The trucks:

The cars:

The crash:
this guy high-centered on his tranny. He sure took it well though. I don't think I could stand there that calmly if I just crashed in front of hundreds of people on a race like that.

The only car I really wanted to get a good shot of and I fubar it. Monster was a force of nature though. No one even came close to how fast and beautifully he came up and around our hairpin. That man's driving is an art form in itself.

The diesel trucks:
I now love these things, they are awesome!

Like I said, just a few for now...

Things to bring next year:
- sunscreen
- radio
- tent (way preferable to 42 hrs no sleep)
- second camera body
- paintball gun to shoot the next jerk who decides to show up drinking
- tire deflator so that said jerk can't drive home drunk

MrGhia · « **Reply #32 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:57:23 PM »

went to day one of practice today at 4 am with my dad and my son and had a blast going again tomorrow

here are a few pics

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MrGhia · « **Reply #33 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:01:42 PM »

few more pics

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MrGhia · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:14:02 PM »

and a few more

took 120 pics

plan to take the same or more tomorrow

love the 928 gts but he hit a guardrail

3ed practice run up but ran again next run and was just as fast

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