ioneater
Husqvarna
AA Class
David (fitness2go) and I headed up there Sunday morning with directions and guidance from Russ (homefinance). Perfect weather (45-50 deg) with the seasonal rain leaving us alone for the day.
Russ had warned us about the first hill that must be overcome to enter the trail network from our staging area, boy he wasn't kidding! Greasy, steep and full of big rocks and ruts. Well, David made it up on the 1st try however, I wasn't so fortunate, hehe. Not a good spot to get slow with knobs and try to start up again.
Well, after that fun we worked our way through some really nice, scenic trails including 4x4 and single track with plenty of water and steep grades mixed in.
Stopped for a well deserved break on top of a ridgeline after negotiating some pretty tight and steep switchbacks. This little fella was hard at work watching us and stuffing his mouth with nesting material. Wasn't the least bit concerned with our presence.
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Yep, it really is that long
We're feeling pretty good at this point and enjoying the views when possible.
Somewhere along the way (several hours into the day) we figured out we were going to have to turn around and make our way back. Well, we took the LONG way back as it turned out. The sun had just set and we finally found that steep descending trail back into the staging area. The ride had started at 9:00 a.m. and we rolled up the the trailer at 6:00 p.m.!
We were some tired, sore, dirty, hungry monkeys as the plan was not to stay out anywhere near that long! Looking back, neither of us had a GPS or map and there was no cell service in the area. Fortunately, neither of us got hurt or broke down. Both of us had messages on the cells when we got signal driving home, and families were a bit concerned. On a good note, both Husky's held up great. I bent the rear chain guide, handlebars and a footpeg. The new 3 gal. IMS worked like a champ, I went all day on 1 tank of gas and it took 2.34 gal. to top off. We rode about 60 miles as it turns out so not too bad. David's bike only suffered a nice thick coating of mud. Not a bad day and we both learned a lot.
Russ had warned us about the first hill that must be overcome to enter the trail network from our staging area, boy he wasn't kidding! Greasy, steep and full of big rocks and ruts. Well, David made it up on the 1st try however, I wasn't so fortunate, hehe. Not a good spot to get slow with knobs and try to start up again.
Well, after that fun we worked our way through some really nice, scenic trails including 4x4 and single track with plenty of water and steep grades mixed in.
Stopped for a well deserved break on top of a ridgeline after negotiating some pretty tight and steep switchbacks. This little fella was hard at work watching us and stuffing his mouth with nesting material. Wasn't the least bit concerned with our presence.
Edit: crap I hit submit instead of preview
Yep, it really is that long
We're feeling pretty good at this point and enjoying the views when possible.
Somewhere along the way (several hours into the day) we figured out we were going to have to turn around and make our way back. Well, we took the LONG way back as it turned out. The sun had just set and we finally found that steep descending trail back into the staging area. The ride had started at 9:00 a.m. and we rolled up the the trailer at 6:00 p.m.!
We were some tired, sore, dirty, hungry monkeys as the plan was not to stay out anywhere near that long! Looking back, neither of us had a GPS or map and there was no cell service in the area. Fortunately, neither of us got hurt or broke down. Both of us had messages on the cells when we got signal driving home, and families were a bit concerned. On a good note, both Husky's held up great. I bent the rear chain guide, handlebars and a footpeg. The new 3 gal. IMS worked like a champ, I went all day on 1 tank of gas and it took 2.34 gal. to top off. We rode about 60 miles as it turns out so not too bad. David's bike only suffered a nice thick coating of mud. Not a bad day and we both learned a lot.
