Pertinent Excerpt from 'Route Section of Gear Book' on RAAM/Route page:
A series of moderate climbs away from the ocean takes the Racers into the shadow of Palomar Mountain near the crest of the Laguna Mountains. Then, not unlike a blast furnace, the temperatures rapidly climb into triple digits during the steep, dizzying, twisty, 3500-foot descent of the "Glass Elevator" into the Anza Borrego Desert. Desert conditions could get even more difficult below sea level along the southern shore of the Salton Sea, as rising humidity levels make a mockery of the "at least it's a dry heat" West Coast mantra.
Brawley, California, is the RAAM first- day desert oasis with a Time Station and full services between two hot 90-mile sections. These sections take Racers over san dunes and through Colorado River Valley agricultural communities to Blythe and the Interstate Highway I-10 bridge to Arizona.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Hoekstra, Merrill-P64393 <Merrill.Hoekstra@gdc4s.com> wrote:
5 hours
Patt decends 3000 feet in 10 miles
Passing ocotillo wells.
Elev 600?
Temp like 90 something
Merrill and goat in the RV
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