The Twentynine Palms City Council will gather this evening and, for the first time in months, the proceedings will be open to the public, though face masks and social distancing are still required. Reporter Heather Clisby has details…
Tonight, the Twentynine Palms City Council will meet with an open door to the public. The council will discuss and likely approve a county contract for the Project Phoenix wastewater system.
To avoid confusion, the council will consider changing the name of the Community Services Building to Luckie Park Activity Center, and the new facility at the Project Phoenix site to the Twentynine Palms Community Center.
KOH
There are always debates about which race is the toughest. You have your Baja guys saying they go 1,000 miles non-stop through desperate terrain down in Mexico. You have your Dakar guys saying their race lasts a week and covers 5,000 miles. There’s probably even some guy who says he suffered at the Goodwood Fesitval of Speed because his champagne went flat before the final serving of the epicurean luncheon buffet. They all have good points (and we’ve been to Goodwood, so we know). But you could make a terrific argument that no one suffers more than those who run the King of the Hammers.
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King Of The Hammers Is Tough On The Competition
The King of the Hammers is not an easy competition. This year 87 competitors started off and fewer than half of them finished the boulder-strewn course.
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To say that the King of the Hammers is tough on the competition is putting it mildly. The competition kicked off as with 84 competitors setting off on some of the rockiest terrains you might imagine. The KOH race aimed to crawl up and down the boulders on the super-tough course under 14 hours. Only 34 of the starters made it.
The low-down on the KOH
Here s the low-down on the KOH, in case you haven t heard of it. The King of the Hammers began 14 years ago. It was the brainchild of a bunch of racers who thought that it would be a great idea – and great fun to drive up and down trails with boulders strewn about in around the Johnson Valley testing their metal – and vehicles, of course – against rocks the size of small battleships.
About 10 pounds of a high-powered explosive disappeared last month from the Twentynine Palms Marine base during an exercise. A San Diego television station reported last week that the 10 pounds of C4, a malleable plastic explosive with a texture like modeling clay, may have been stolen.
C4 is more powerful than TNT but needs a detonator in order to explode. When detonated, one pound of C4 can demolish a vehicle.
U.S. Marines with Company A (Alpha Co.), Combat Engineer School apply and cut out the amount of C4 they need for the live fire range aboard Camp Geiger, N.C., Feb. 9, 2017. This exercise was used so students would get a hands on experience making C4 explosives in the field.