I saw the message from Bill L. and know what it said, and I'm not disputing at all what he said. I was asking if anyone took a good look later - Saturday or Sunday - to see how the racing surface was when the event would have been happening, not the day or two before. It's not Bill than I'm questioning in any way. I'm wondering what other racers saw.
No problem Slim, I don't think any racers hung out until Sunday just to see that it looked like the pictures I posted. George Callaway lives on the western edge of lakebed next door to the SCTA property and it has been reported by him and others that live nearby the the lakebed was dry throughout the weekend.
I think three things need to be remembered...
1) It didn't rain on the lakebed this weekend.
2) As Nathan pointed out the BLM has put cones around the low spot on the east end of the lakebed where the perpetual dampness is. We race
5 miles away from that point.
3) There are other access points to the lakebed.
I will say this; if they let the racers on this weekend they would have had to let every other user on too. If it would have rained while we were out there and couldn't load up quickly enough we would have had to leave our trailers on the lakebed until dry enough to remove them. This has happened before.
In the end we didn't race, and it was dry. Maybe a missed call of judgment. Maybe politics. The BLM rangers get paid whether we race or not, less work for them if we don't. The State gets any $$$ for entry fees etc.