Fun RC Play Time

When there's an inch or more of snow on the ground you have a chance to turn your yard into a remote control monster truck event center.

There's no need for that snow to just lie there and go to waste. Design a monster truck rally course, and turn your yard into a neighborhood RC playground. Lay it out on paper first (draw a blueprint). Dream up a full-scale four-wheel competition track, and scale it down to radio control model size.

The only thing that limits your fun here is your imagination. Let it go crazy with this project. Give your kids, and yourself, a thrill.

Pile the snow into tall mounds, and create a hill-climbing event. Make the sides of your hills steep enough to give your trucks a challenge while they climb to the top. Flatten the top of your hills into mesas large enough to maneuver the trucks when they successfully negotiate the climb.

Build in-line ramps, separated but facing each other, for jumping events. Make sure you erect these ramps far enough apart to exercise your remote control monster truck driving skills. If they're close enough that the jump is an easy one, where's the fun in that?

Mold a line of side-by-side cars from the snow for a crushing competition. You'll want your snow cars hard enough that they don't easily crumble with the first impacts of the truck tires as they climb onto the obstacle line.

Build a frozen lake for driving your trucks on. See how well you handle icy driving conditions. Shape a large crater in the snow, then fill it with water, and let it freeze. You can hold some interesting races with other monster truck hobbyists on the ice.

To extend your RC playtime even further break out the construction equipment to build your hills, ramps, lake, and any other obstacles you dream up. Front loaders can shape oval tracks, and ramp approach lanes. Excavators can erect your hills and ramps. Dump trucks can move the snow to where you need it placed.

Lay out a yard-sized RC park and you can schedule all the racing events your imagination can create. Get the kids involved, and let them design some activities. They'll surprise you with that childhood knack for creativity that we adults often lose while growing up.

They'll have a lot of fun doing it too.

Think of all the fun you'll have watching the children driving their trucks around your four-wheeler park. Think of the exciting time they'll have just because you're there playing with them. Think of the crowd you'll draw as the neighbors come out to watch your monster-trucking antics.

Maybe those neighbors will break out their RC vehicles, and join in the festivities.

Snow and cold don't mean you have to take your radio control models inside. Create projects that turn perceived bad weather into cheerful RC hours.

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