Web-based tracking: https://share.delorme.com/dammralliers
So Garmin acquired Delorme, including the latter’s ‘InReach’ service.
I was formerly a Magellan man, ever since some mid-Nineties angst about ownership of data and what the GPS hardware vendors would allow you to do with the hardware that you bought from them
when I was trying to add another two pounds of ground coffee to a 3# can that already held 1+. He said,
What you need is some vibratory compaction,
revealing another of the myriad hidden facets of his knowledge. He proceeded to lift-and-drop the can, up about an inch off the countertop, and then down! with a sharp impact. The granules shifted with each strike, scrambled loose by the shock — but drawn downward, relentlessly, by Terran gravity. Their rough edges collided, slid, and skipped, and the mass settled just a bit with every hit.
After a dozen repetitions, the 3# can held 3+ pounds of grounds.
My current container is not so round nor regular as a can. It’s the frunk of the 996; and I need to get all of this into that confine:
After less than a dozen repetitions of unpack-repack, the hood does close. It’ll be interesting to see how things have settled when we meet the car in Boston in three weeks.
Fabbed mounts for the fire extinguisher, axle sensors, rally computer, and the spare tire. Ran cables. Stuck Velcro. Zipped zipties.
Ready
Kinda chilly at 6500 ft
Designed by Hume Media, Inc.
The 996’s flat-six motor is mounted behind the rear axle. To lower the the car’s C.G., the motor’s mounted low. And, to make it light, the motor’s made mostly of aluminum.
This all means that when you (or the previous owner, heh) backs the car up into a parking space and scrapes the curb, the lowest, rearest aluminum edge on the motor (the edge of the oil pan) is going to give way when it meets the concrete.
non-discriminatory scrapage (both sides) 
Yeech.
I started scheming on a UHWM polyethelene sheet to cover the pan, but — whatyaknow? turns out Porch has an accessory bottom plate that pretty much bolts on. I took the weazy way out, wabbit.
Rally route.. Who says this hobby isn’t an excuse to drive beautiful roads?
Mendocino Gold TSD tomorrow, ten hours’ drive from Portland. Had to stop for ice cream.
Was up late last night replacing sensor magnets on the left front halfshaft. Precision!
With the turbo, there’s plenty of power for the Siskiyous passes.
For the wet and rough roads of Targa Newfoundland, 18″ low-profile tires are not the ticket. Something with a bit more sidewall is called for; and to mount the big skins, some rugged Braid wheels.
Despite the additional strength of the FullRace RallyX wheels, they’re each more than 10 pounds lighter than the OEM stuff – taking that much unsprung weight off each corner.
