S2ki Wake the Dragon 2016 Part 2


Part two of the coverage begins with our first full day in the area. We used this day to check out the Dragon itself since it was a weekday before the event started. Without a doubt this was a great choice by the group. The roads were a lot less crowded and it allowed us to enjoy driving and the scenery.

 

Besides the Dragon we hit up a couple of other roads in the area and we finished the night up with a quick photoshoot of Mike’s AP2 and Fernando’s NA1.

Click here if you missed part 1.

 

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Everyone was prepping their cars first thing in the morning. Here Fernando is removing the blue tape off the car.

 

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Kevin making sure the windshield of his SI is nice and clean.

 

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Taking tape off is a painstakingly long process, apparantly.

 

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Billman doing a valve adjustment for someone.

 

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Waiting for the troops to gather.

 

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Mike sitting on his TE37 rt’s. #TEam37

 

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Fernando parked up with his CE’s.

 

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Stan started experiencing some clutch problems on the drive down so him and Billman decided to check it out real quick. Another #TEam37 member.

 

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Billman back to work on the valve adjustment.

 

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Historic Tapoco Lodge is where we spent the week. A great place with a lot of history to it. At one point it was owned by Alcoa and used as a retreat for employees.

 

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Yup Fernando again. There’s just something about NA1 NSX’s. I think I’ll own one some day. But an NA2 with popups.

 

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Stan getting down and dirty. After this we headed over to Deals Gap for breakfast then hit up the dragon a little after that.

 

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Mike experiencing the dragon for one of the first times.

 

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A quick stop at Deal’s Gap again.

 

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We pulled over to take pictures at the top of the dragon.

 

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One of the many gorgeous views of the week.

 

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Joey rolling in sans opera singing.

 

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Back to driving we go with Stan giving chase to Fernando with me and Mike close behind.

 

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Pulled over for another break/more pics.

 

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Billman stuck behind a motorcycle.

 

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Group shot.

 

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Photoshoot time.

 

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As the sun disappeared we headed back through the dragon at night and had a little party back at the cabin.