How To Mark Cones on wet asphalt ?

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How To Mark Cones on wet asphalt ?

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Started this thread on the SCCA Forum:

http://sccaforums.com/forums/thread/394618.aspx

Anyone know what our wet cousins do up North and East ?

All we can think of is Lumber Crayons ... which aren't THAT big, ie. we're going to need a lot of them!
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Ask my Dad how many lumber crayons it takes to mark a course, National Staff used to ask us to use Lumber crayons instead of drywall to mark the ProSolo courses.
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There is (was?) a bunch of them in the CTV.
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Doing course set-up tomorrow/Friday afternoon
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The yellow ones are easier to see than the red ones if there's a choice.
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We use the yellow ones, over the white lumber crayons, to mark people/cars in the motion picture industry when it's wet.

From the SCCA Forum:
Our region would double cone everything with an extra cone beside the regular cone When a cone was hit, the one beside it was usually untouched and could be used to put the hit cone back in place. Not a perfect solution, but worked great in most downed cone situations.
THAT would be a LOT of cones for our typical courses!
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yellow lumber crayons are the standard marking device in the wet northwest.
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