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27 August to
26 September 2023
Day 17 Jackson Hole to Heber City (546km)
13 September 2023
photos: Marcus rowe - gerardbrown.co.uk
Richard Turner and Nigel Lee, 1938 Ford Model 62 V8
Jackson Hole reminded us this morning that it is
a ski resort, delivering a chilly start to our day. As
we pulled on an extra layer we saw it was going
to be a longer and busier day than yesterday, with
two back-to-back regularities in the morning and a
couple of passage Controls in the afternoon.
from the car park we turned away from the Tetons and
started on a southerly course through wyoming towards
two regularities at Murphy Creek and Mcdougal Gap. A
total of 100km of high mountain dirt roads. They may have
been close physically, but geographically they were very
different. The first feeling like a drive through the foothills
of the Alps, with pleasant woodland filled with autumnal
colours and a stream meandering along the bottom of the
valley. The second was via a high mountain pass, fringed
with steep cliff faces, and led on into wide open plains.
A long, sweeping, gravel piste took us towards the Time
Control and lunch at the daniel Junction restaurant which
served up some classic pulled pork buns and beautiful
salmon salad.
After a pretty intense morning, the pace slackened
slightly over the afternoon and, without the pressure of the
clock bearing down on them, the rally was better able to
appreciate the vast western landscape.
There were two passage Controls along the Green river.
The first was in Kemmerer, where the famous department
store JC penney Company was founded in 1902. The owner of
the Kettle Café informed us that the area had been under 12
foot of snow last year. It’s also incidentally the world’s fossil
capital with the fossil Butte national monument nearby.
www.rallytheglobe.com