Haydays Survey, TAKE IT!!
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I gave my opinions.
I also gave my opinion - move it to larger venue (Fair Grounds) with infrastructure to support it.
I see they are offering 5 free pair of tickets - WTF? They make a ridiculous amount of money and they offer $200 worth of tickets for everyone's troubles...laughable at best.
I see they are offering 5 free pair of tickets - WTF? They make a ridiculous amount of money and they offer $200 worth of tickets for everyone's troubles...laughable at best.
At least their not hiding from the problems.
I gave my thoughts.
I gave my thoughts.
Yes, the traffic was really, really BAD. But overall, for a new location, it was good. Great racing, great freestyle show, good food and the swap meet had lot's of great stuff. As to the traffic, I don't think you can lay the problem completely on the Sno Barons. I think the "local officials" were not on top of it. While the Sno Barons had told them what to expect, maybe they could not comprehend how many of us 30,000 is and that we would all be showing up at 7am on Saturday! 
The Sno Baron seem genuinely concerned about the problems and I think many of these problems should be ironed out by next year.
The Sno Baron seem genuinely concerned about the problems and I think many of these problems should be ironed out by next year.
Yes, the traffic was really, really BAD. But overall, for a new location, it was good. Great racing, great freestyle show, good food and the swap meet had lot's of great stuff. As to the traffic, I don't think you can lay the problem completely on the Sno Barons. I think the "local officials" were not on top of it. While the Sno Barons had told them what to expect, maybe they could not comprehend how many of us 30,000 is and that we would all be showing up at 7am on Saturday!
The Sno Baron seem genuinely concerned about the problems and I think many of these problems should be ironed out by next year.
Not true. The city filed several petitions to not allow the SnoBarons to have the event, but they lost and look what happened.
Was the City of North Branch against it and Chisago County was for it? I heard someone else say the same thing the other day.
Or was it a petition signed by people that live in the area?
I like BIR... then I could stay at the lake and rent out camping spots an hour from the event and make a killing
Fron what my friends in the club have told me the Sno Barons thought they had a couple more years at the old property and could develop the new land once they had the permits, but Columbus told them 2009 was the last year. The conditional use permit wasn't even issued until last year. Without that there was no reason to put money into a place that had no chance of having a race. Basically the 2010 race was put together in less than a year on property that had nothing done to it other than old buildings removed. Other places may seem like better locations on the surface but the fact is Haydays is going to live or die where it is now. Take the survey and let hem know what sucked and what was good. I wasn't even there this year and I threw in my 2 cents about all the crap in the swap that has always been there.
Swap was a lot better this year, just about all was power sports. Love the new site, just need to rent more land to park.
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haydaysswaptroll
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Actually the permit for the new spot was granted this spring. Additionally, financial constraints limited how much developing we could do at the new site over the last couple years. Afterall, we're a club not a business!!
p.s. BIR and the fair grounds are out of the question. Zero and I mean zero chance.
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haydaysswaptroll
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Well we finally own our own land so there's no point. Also, neither place has a racetrack. Neither place has the expo area. Costs alone to truck in the dirt/clay would be insane. And that's just the start.
