Call for Volunteers!<\/p>\n
On January 18, 2015, Sunday of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend,\u00a0 Carroll is kicking it up a notch with the Buena Suerte 50 Mile \/ Quick Silver 30 K Ultra Run in the Big Bend Ranch State Park. Some of the single tracks, creek beds, and unmaintained sections of the course in the Big Bend Ranch make the Course Roads of the National Park look like super highways for the runners.<\/p>\n
If you enjoy the desert and Big Bend area of West Texas. If you enjoy the\u00a0 challenge of camping out in the wilderness in winter time. If you can afford several days of vacation in January. Maybe you would like to visit the\u00a0 historic and naturally scenic Big Bend Ranch State Park.\u00a0 Located between Lajitas and Presidio where Ranching and Mining were once the\u00a0 driving forces of economy in the area. The Big Bend Ranch State Park is a wonderfully preserved area of the Big Bend Border Land covering over 300,000 acres.<\/p>\n
For 6 of the last 9 years, Carroll Voss kf5kqa, of Overland Race Management, has organized and directed Ultra Run foot race events in Big Bend National Park. It has been very popular with the runners and an enjoyable outing for\u00a0the support volunteers. The Big Bend Amateur Radio Club has organized the communications for the event and the San Antonio Area HAMs have assisted\u00a0 with a good number of HAM volunteers.<\/p>\n
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We are going to need HAM volunteers for the run in Big Bend Ranch State\u00a0 Park, but most of the stations will need volunteers with short wheelbase,\u00a0 high clearance 4-wheel drive vehicles and hardy individuals who would like to do some primitive camping out for a couple of days in some of the most remote wilderness of the Chihuahua Desert.<\/p>\n
There will be a need for a number of HAMs at the Sauceda Ranch Headquarters in the Park which can be reached with 2-wheel drive with a reasonable ground clearance, but not accessible to RVs. And there will be a need for a few extra hands at the Barton Warnock Center in Lajitas where the Start\/Finish, Net Control, and Race Headquarters will be located. It is located right off FM-170, the highway between Big Bend National Park and Presidio, and requires no special vehicles. There is the Maverick RV Park in Lajitas.<\/p>\n
Anyone interested in volunteering for this event is encouraged, First of\u00a0 All, to visit the bigbend50.com web site for more information on the race.\u00a0 Be sure to visit the section for “Radio Operators.” In that section I have\u00a0posted a kmz file for Google Earth users that should be helpful. Also visit\u00a0the Big Bend Ranch State Park web site at https:\/\/www.tpwd.state.tx.us\/state-parks\/big-bend-ranch<\/a> for details about\u00a0the Park, camping rules and reservations, road conditions, etc.<\/p>\n Then if interested in volunteering contact; For more info; ———————————————————- Call for Volunteers! On January 18, 2015, Sunday of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend,\u00a0 Carroll is kicking it up a notch with the Buena Suerte 50 Mile \/ Quick Silver 30 K Ultra Run in the Big Bend Ranch State Park. Some of the single tracks, creek beds, and unmaintained sections of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[783],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8024,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSan Antonio – Central Texas:<\/strong> Charles Land KC5NKK, charlesdland@gmail.com
\ncell phone 512 796-7565
\nBig Bend and West Texas:<\/strong> Bill Baker W5ATO, w5ato@arrl.net<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.bigbend50.com\/
\nhttps:\/\/www.tpwd.state.tx.us\/state-parks\/big-bend-ranch
\nhttp:\/\/www.bigbendarc.com\/
\nhttp:\/\/www.sanantoniohams.org\/
\nhttp:\/\/www.overlandracing.com\/<\/p>\n
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\nBill Baker,W5ATO
\nAlpine, Texas
\nw5ato.bill@verizon.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"