re: #161 calochortus

Oh, absolutely, friction reduction is important-I kind of took that as a given. When I was there you could see where idiots had pushed some rocks around and of course it plowed a sharp furrow in the playa, not that nice smooth track.

And also, their footprints right next to it.

That was a fun trip. We got a flat tire out by the Eureka sand dune and actually had a ranger pull up to see if we were ok (these are not horrible but not fantastic dirt roads).

Once they saw that we had the full size spare tire, green goo, and portable air compressor, not to mention the car already up on the jack and the tire off, they felt pretty good about leaving us to our own devices. :) The green goo worked well enough to let us keep using that tire, which was good because we weren’t going to head out to the Racetrack if we’d already had to use the full size spare.