Showing posts with label chuckwagon races. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chuckwagon races. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Chuckwagon Races


Back to Calgary. One of the popular rodeo-ish events is the chuckwagon races. These were vehicles used to prepare food for cowboys on long cattle drives. Today's versions closely resemble the old ones, down to the special oven they carry in the back. They come in from the right, do this complicated figure 8 pattern around barrels, then swoop back out where they came from and do a full lap around the track. The get penalties of so many seconds for not doing something exactly right. I never really got it, although they probably wouldn't understand the subtleties of skateboarding on moving NY subway cars like I did in my teens. Pick your own excitement.                            

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