Our camp at Black Rock... pass the sunscreen! (47,896 bytes)
I went with some friends to the Black Rock Desert (a dry lake about 80 miles north of Reno, Nevada) in 1992. Our mission was to watch and participate in the annual LDRS-XI (Large Dangerous Rocket Ships) and BALLS-02 (Big-Ass Load-Lifting Suckers) amateur rocket launches.
Our camp at Black Rock... pass the sunscreen! (47,896 bytes)
(Left-to-right: Roger, James, Brian, Linda, Jimmy, Yerz Trooly)
The Down Right Ignorant, a scaled-up version of Ron Schultz's "Esoteric" design -- scaled way up! (34,810 bytes)
The launch of Down Right Ignorant (17,876 bytes)
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