I ended up with Blakes gopro and grabbed some pix off it. Just thought you might like to see how the trails in the NW look. thats me up there on my 83 XC500 Fun.
Spring and fall are epic, summer is dusty and dry, winter is sloppy wet muck. That was a real nice day.
Was an awesome day.... Weather / condition wise, might be the best we get... That stupid chunk of mud....
Looks like where we rode in the PNW but I think we were miles north of you with St Helens between us ... same ferns, same trees(up and down), same big stumps, same moss .... we had pumice up there everywhere ... Lots of it looked like it was manicured ... Most if not all the trails we rode in GPNF were made around the early 1900s I think ... They were made for the fire look-outs ... People had to walk or ride horses\mules in there to see what was happening ... People can cry and complain all they want but motorcycles help keep them open by riding them ... Lots of the areas we were in had volcanic several feet deep after St Helens erupted ... The knobbies would of course dig a hole out there and it would be mostly ash usually ... This is Badger Lake I think ...
This is totally different from the riding we did in GPNF, probably due north of MT ST Helens and well south of HIway 12. No spring or summer riding due to snow... Snow lines control the riding time each yr ... Our area must have been at a higher altitude I guess ... The snow was just another cool aspect for riding to us ... We saw it ~mid July come and go, then it returned Nov(?) and force us out ... We'd start at the bottom and ride into ... Just like seeing an old friend come and go each yr ... Here's a map of that area ... You guys ride over in' the Silver Star area? Or do you go west? Running south to north or vise-versa between HIway 12 & Vancouver and between Adams and St Helens would be a good way to spend some time. Might be some GPS files out there on a route, maybe alot of true woods roads and trails ...
Ray, my pictures are at the coast range. Yes thats badger lake you show and yes only open for about 5 months a year due to high elevation snow. I ride there a lot in the summer / fall and know all those trails very well.
Lots of diversity here. Drove 3 hours to central Oregon yesterday for more testing. Epic wet dez. FUN!!!
Link to H cam!! I wanna see and hear the 5 Hunny XC If Jake can stay off the gas long enough to let us hear some 5 Hunny music
