Great! Looking forward to the gathering of the Minis on Saturday...will you be bringing any "cheese minis" with you?

 

Maybe Mini Brownies or cookies this time.

 

As of a couple of hours ago, NOAA was still predicting a NO RAIN day for us on Saturday. Temps still up in the high 60's.

Keep rubbin' those mojo bones Peg

 

OK Ed I checked the magic 8 ball and....

so I'll check back later!
I get partly cloudy in the mid 60's also...
But I do think the roads might be a tad wet in the morning around PA from showers the night before so you might want to put the rain slicks on!

 

Ahhhh geeezzzz Edith! You just broke da bubble. Here I thought you had real magical mojo bones.

But yes, you're right, they are talking about rain/showers late Friday night and cloudy early Saturday morning. Like Jim sez...if it rains we just take the twisties a little slower. Dorothy said to remind you to bring your binoculars!

 

Ah yes my binoculars to search for the Eagles at the Hawks Nest.
A link to the pics we took last time we played hookie and went...
http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/lunch/HawksNest.html

 

The Showers are scheduled for the early morning, we wont start the run till around 10 so by then hopefully they will have passed.
I also would like to see some hawks, going to bring the long lens and hopefully my Co Pilot can grab a shot or 2

 

Wow! VERY nice shots. What kind of camera/lens were you using to get those pix? Dorothy is really hoping that we will see something along these lines (your pix).

JIM: The reports for the central New Jersey inland areas doesn't mention anything about showers for Saturday morning, although they do mention some showers for late Friday evening. I guess it all depends upon what is considered to be late Friday or early Saturday with the weather forcasters...and I suppose there could be a slight difference between our NJ weather Vs. PA. I plan on enjoying the day regardless and hope we are treated to a few "Raptors"!

 

Here is the latest report for the area were we will start the run in

Saturday

Oct 10Mostly Cloudy Hi: 60° Lo: 39°
Mostly Cloudy. High 60F and low 39F. Winds W at 14 mph. Air Quality: NA, UV Index: NA
0% chance of precipt

 

Just out of curiosity...does anyone have an ideal of what roads we will be traveling on for this run. I know where we are going to start and I know that we end up traveling on NY#97 and will apparently terminate at Port Jervis. It's the part between Scotrun diner and Rt#97 that I'm interested in.

 

Thats a good question Ed, We might be able to make this as it seems that the Prestige Mini Run looks like it is a repeat of last years run. The only difference that I see is that they are going farther. If I am wrong someone please let me know. I spent the week end in NW PA, with the PhillyMini group and had a blast, 2 runs in 2 days and around 300 miles on mostly twisty down and up mountain sides.

 

Robyn's changing up the route this year to add a few more twisties. Others on Facebook have asked for the route to meet the group along the way and she was going to send it to them.

Last year it was a great mix of state and local roads heading northeast from Scotrun, over the hills, thru the forests, along the lakes, streams and rivers!

Here's a few pics from last year.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3128606...02328265/show/

 

Peggy - We were up in northeast PA last weekend and saw lot's of hawks, turkey vultures and other birds of prey. We hiked to the top of Hawk mountain and were at eye level and above as they were soaring by. Joyce's camera battery died so no pics.

Hoping to stop down by the river after the run to see if our friend(s) are still there!

russ aka 007MINI

 

No one wash or shine their car this week and we'll be guaranteed sun on Saturday!

 

I have not washed my car in 2 weeks, (NOT like me to let it go that long)
to let it go a 3rd weekend Umm not so sure. I am still thinking we will have just clouds on Saturday

 

I also posted on Her Facebook Hawks Run page as well as sent her an email and never got an answer to my questions

I tried to view your pix but got a message on the site that they couldn't be found...drat!

 

sorry Ed - the flickr privacy settings were changed somehow. now they're public. here's the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3128606...02328265/show/

 

John & I were thinking the same thing!

 

OK Russ, now that's more like it! Bee-you-tee-full. Now I'm really hyped. I've got my camera battery on charge!.

PS: NOAA is still forcasting partly sunny (no rain) for Saturday, however they now are forcasting the temperatures to be into the low 70's...can it get any better??

 

I also have the Camera ready to go, and picked up a few extra memory cards for the Video Camera hopefully wont miss any of the twisties on the Video this year

 

If it's raining out, I might have to bail. Tires allowed my car to get a bit unstable this past Tuesday, don't want to chance it by pushing it.

 

I have 2 runflats with a little more then half thread on them, they're yours if you want them.

 

NOAA weather has been holding very tight on the expected weather for this Saturday. They are calling for NO RAIN, partly cloudy in the morning and temperatures in the high 60's...NO WET ROADS!

 

They've got tread on them, they're just not the greatest tire in the rain. I'm holding out for Hankook Ventus v12 Evo's for the spring.

Maybe I'll put my all seasons back on tonight so I don't have to worry about it. Thanks though

 

No Problem,, if you them they are here for ya