Mini Group Drive

^ Yes definitely. I have had my old car down that road to Beaver Cove. It was good enough. Dunno what its like now, but its an Idea to check out.

 
Heh, don't think anyone cares, but I just went VIP Membership. Woopie!
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Less than a week to go guys. Take some time to go to the store and buy a walkie talkie if you don't have one.
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that's right. I have an extra one if someone needs it.

 
So lots of dirt I take it??? Let the chips fly.
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There is a fair amount of dirt. Dan and I have put together a final route that details the longest possible route taking backroads over state routes where ever possible. We should have enough copies of the route to go around but I suspect for the most part we will not need them. The problem with the whole dirt thing, apparently in recent years the state has seen fit to pave a lot of them. a lot of the roads we are taking between strong and madrid use to be dirt or part dirt but are no longer. There are a lot of roads I would call roughly paved that often have gravel on the pavement and/or curvy S turn type segements. Some of them are like roller coasters. Some of them a scenic like Rt.17 also know as "The Rangeley Scenic By-way". And yes there is dirt. The majority of dirt will be found on the Byron road between Coos Canyon and Weld. There are a fair amount of hunters and hikers out there too so we will need to keep an eye out. We also will see dirt on the 2nd half of the South Shore Road in Rangeley.

If some of you have never been to Rangeley before I think you will be in for a treat. Rangeley is beautiful practically any time of year. We will probably go in to town for a rest stop and store/gas stop if necessary before jumping on the South Shore Road. We can also stop for pictures at the scenic overlooks if some of us have never seen them before. After the scenery it is a short trip to Coos Canyon where we will jump on the Byron road.

We also have recalculated the route on Google Maps following all the roads we wanted and it calculated the route to be a little over 5 hours. I think that is a very conservative estimate. We should able to beat it pretty easily. If some of you need to leave the group early we will hardly ever be more than a few miles from good fast state roads like Rt2, Rt4, Rt17 etc. We should be able to give you easy directions on a much faster route back to Auburn.

FYI, I did a check on the road conditions for a large part of our Route today. Had to give my new blizzaks and winter rims a thorough breaking in. I drove from Auburn where I met Dan to plan the route, back through Rt. 4 and jumped on to 108 back up through Canton and down the Canton Point road, through Dixfield and up to Weld. I then jumped on the Byron Rd, and took it a reasonable enough speed to have fun. The road is in great condition and has just enough moisture content to keep us from kicking up dust. The road also looks like its been recently graded as well!
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We should have no trouble at all. I also hit the Rangeley Scenic By-Way and skipped up to the South Shore Road. We are more likely to get chipped paint on this short 1 to 2 mile stretch than any where else. I then went to Rangeley for gas and took Rt4 to Phillips and off to visit some friends. I basically drove half of our group drive and it took me just about 2 hours.

As long as the weather holds out for us, this should be a BLAST!!!!
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:ro:Hope to see you all Wednesday!!!

 
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rays rs told me that you will be going through rangeley. Defenetly count me in for going from auburn to rangeley but ill leave off there for some holiday dirt drifting.

 
You got it, happy to have you along!

Also it looks like WRXnate might be stopping by with some mainelysubaru.com decals for our cars. I know that I need to get a bigger one:D! If you want one or two more, bring some cash along with you. Hopefully Nate will be able to meet up with us before we head out. I believe that they are $4.00 for the smaller decals and $6.00 for the larger ones and they come in blue and red. Check out the mainely subarus swag thread for pics...like you all haven't seen these before:o

 
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Not sure if I am going to be able to make it. Getting some trees cut that hang on my roof and the guy said it may be wednesday before he can do it.
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Aww, Adam come on!!! The house isn't that important is it? You can always buy another one.
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ha ha ha. I hope you can make it becuase it would be a real bummer for you to not be able to come on a drive that you helped create.
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Not sure if I am going to be able to make it. Getting some trees cut that hang on my roof and the guy said it may be wednesday before he can do it.
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Yeah, I really hope that you can make it! You're part of the reason we are doing this in the first place!

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maybe nate can bring some cards too ??
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I have some extra if you need them....I think that I've tagged all the Subarus in the Augusta area.

 
I will have cards too....

Just as a reminder can someone send me a PM once you have the plans 100% set. Let me know the time to meet you, and the place.

Thanks guys.

 
I will have cards too....
Just as a reminder can someone send me a PM once you have the plans 100% set. Let me know the time to meet you, and the place.

Thanks guys.
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Here goes nuthin... I am gonna try and embed a link to the route. I had to re-create this route becuase I did not have a way to save the one we created yesterday. We will meet at 12:00pm noon. I don't expect that the drive will take as long as the route in Google maps is saying but to be on the safe side I removed the crash rd. on the return trip and if we still feel up to it we can swing up through and hit it anyway, its a short detour but according to google it adds about 20 minutes.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Washington+St&daddr=Millett+St+to:Fairbanks+Rd%2FME-27+N%2FME-4+N+to:ME-149+N%2FS+Strong+Rd+to:ME-149+N%2FME-234+W%2FNorton+Hill+Rd+to:Lambert+Hill+Rd%2FME-149+N+to:Davenport+Flat+Rd+to:Reed's+Mill+Rd+to:Reed's+Mill+Rd+to:S+Shore+Rd+to:S+Shore+Rd+to:ME-17+E%2FRoxbury+Rd+to:Byron+Rd+to:ME-142+S+to:ME-17+E%2FUS-2+E%2FWilton+Rd+to:Canton+Point+Rd+to:ME-108+E%2FTurner+St+to:Washington+St&hl=en&geocode=FXHznwId8NjP-w%3BFQaipgId7PvQ-w%3BFbr9qQId8HTR-w%3BFZNaqgIdoCHR-w%3BFQSsqwIdaI7Q-w%3BFfXEqwIdDGfQ-w%3BFXZerAIddXnO-w%3BFf-qrAIdYxTO-w%3BFTEKrQIdqhnN-w%3BFdeKrQIdE3zJ-w%3BFRpbrQIdYvrI-w%3BFbxzqgIdxu7J-w%3BFcCGqgIdl1_M-w%3BFYD3qAIdDqzM-w%3BFaZGpwIdgJ3N-w%3BFZmKpgIdZ0PP-w%3BFd_0pQIdtkjP-w%3BFX7znwIdFtjP-w&mra=mr&mrcr=0&via=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16&sll=44.385311,-70.252504&sspn=0.02334,0.065961&num=10&ie=UTF8&z=9

or

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=106880021237230355691.000478f83a0e38c23ab46&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.48234,-70.436951&spn=1.491213,4.221497&z=9

 
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