Salt conditions?

[SabreTooth]

I also have a picture from 2011 of the Salt & thickness. It was taken at the start line of course #4 (Rookie / Orientation) early on during Speed Week 2011. The start for course 4 was located at the end of the dyke towards I80.

The second picture shows the relationship of the hole to the start line.

The foot model was a kind lady waiting in line.

Jim

P.S. Living in Canada, my brain still cannot comprehend that this is salt not ice, despite the heat. I continue to catch myself talking abut the holes in and reflections from the ice...er, salt. And no, we don't have snow and ice all year round, it just feels like it sometimes during the 7 months of winter.

[dw230]

Next time a little more leg please.

DW

[Tman]

Next time a little more leg please.

DW

I owuld rather see the J.A.P. in his avatar! Well, that and more leg

[gas pumper]

Just add my 2cents to the topic.

We were pitted about 1/4 mile, maybe a little more, north of Speed Demon on the outside row of the pits. One of the guys with us was asking about the salt thickness so i dug a hole with a screwdriver in the pit.

We had about 3/4 inch of salt before we hit the brown clay.

[Dr Goggles]

We were pitted about 1/4 mile, maybe a little more, north of Speed Demon on the outside row of the pits. One of the guys with us was asking about the salt thickness so i dug a hole with a screwdriver in the pit.

We had about 3/4 inch of salt before we hit the brown clay.

I didn't go digging any holes as I felt like a guest the whole week but I'm kind of shocked to hear that. In areas, typically on the edge of the lake, where the salt is that thin at Lake Gairdner it collapses under the weight of the traffic. To me the salt felt fat and I didn't see any of the collapsed areas like I just mentioned that we see here. The problem we had in 07 with thin salt was seemingly related to the huge amount of topsoil that was washed onto the arm where we race during a storm, but under it was still another six or more inches of salt.

The pot-holes on the road to lands end were something I hadn't seen on the salt before, like I said ours seems to behave more like ice when it is too thin....then again , in the grand scheme of things, I'm a Johnny come lately.

[55chevr]

The food concession had a barrel of soda-s on ice ... It was sweating from the heat and where it pooled it put the salt cover in liquid suspension which created a window in the surface. It was only a inch to the mud substrate. 

[SabreTooth]

I owuld rather see the J.A.P. in his avatar! Well, that and more leg

Without hijacking this thread, I can oblige on the one J.A.P. count.
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,3693.msg169149.html#msg169149

The other will have to wait for an opportune thread. 

Cheers,
Jim

[Dave Haller]

NOAA has a live camera at the truck weigh station. You can check that daily. MESO something has hourly documentation on temps, precip and so on. I have been checking from up here each day and haven't seen any reports of rain. If anyone has been out to the salt in the last week maybe they can share what they see. We travel about 840 miles to get there and don't want to waste a trip at $4.00 a gallon when my faithful old tow rig only gets 8mpg towing. Absolutely worth it just to be there though.