• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Escaping The Rain At Ballinger

The famous Carrizo Plain mud rears its ugly head. It got me, too, but luckily Eric was too busy getting his bike on the sidestand to notice...:p

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I've always thought of myself as outstanding in my field...
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We made it back to camp right before total darkness. After a perfect campfire and a tasty dinner we were prepared for a good night's sleep, but the bozo in the toy hauler that had just arrived had other plans for us. He turned his generator on at 7:10pm, about 7 minutes after he arrived, and it was still on at midnight when the first of the 2-stroke quads were fired up. We awoke at 3:30am, generator still rumbling, when the Staging Area 2-stroke Quad Hare Scrambles began. We decided then and there to leave at sun-up. Good thing we'd loaded the bikes the night before!
We headed out towards the coast and had our breakfast/lunch in this little town...
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With a whole day ahead of us and nothing to do, we decided to soak away the day, but we had to climb this staircase first...
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Aah...relaxation awaits...
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Our view from the tub...
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We soaked away the day while reveling in the fact that we surely had to be the luckiest people on the planet. We headed home, wondering when we'd be able to come back down here to enjoy all that cental California has to offer :)
Soon, I hope!

Thanks for coming along with us!

WoodsChick
 
Thank you Woodsie. I enjoyed being tantalised over a couple of installments. Absolutely great report and terrific photos.
I look forward to your next adventure and obligatory report.

Cheers.
 
Some of those ridges looked pretty scary to me! Damn, looks like you guys had another epic ride.
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ghte said:
Thank you Woodsie. I enjoyed being tantalised over a couple of installments. Absolutely great report and terrific photos.
I look forward to your next adventure and obligatory report.

Cheers.
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Thanks, ghte! The installments weren't planned, I just happened to finish the first post right as the SF Giants started their season opener. We had to leave for our softball opener before it was over so the report had to wait til the next day
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Srad600 said:
Some of those ridges looked pretty scary to me! Damn, looks like you guys had another epic ride. :applause:
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Yep! You should have come with us!

letitsnow said:
Thanks for sharing that!
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No need for thanks, I really enjoy taking/posting photos and stuff
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Muddy Waters said:
That you are :love:
I hope people remember to click on the photos to get the full size version cause some of those pics are epic in nature
And we are lucky enough to have you share it with us
Lovely as usual Woodsy

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Hey, I tried to click on my photos but they didn't appear any larger for me :confused: What's your secret?

...or are you teasing me because they're kinda big in the first place?
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WoodsChick said:
I acquired a fear of heights many years ago falling off the Rincon Trail down at Kennedy Meadows and I haven't really been able to shake it since. I'll attempt the gnarliest stuff out there, I have no fear of failure in that regard, but if it's anything that I can actually fall off of, well, I'm a wimpering crybaby. There have been trails in Utah where I've gotten off and crawled across, Eric riding my bike for me like a He-Man savior. I didn't want to ride down the scary spine trail, and Eric said we'd go another way. Halfway back I realized he'd tricked me and we were headed for the Downhill of Doom. I'd taken a photo of the trail map but hadn't looked at it since we'd been on the bikes. He, on the other hand, copied the trail map onto a piece of binder paper and he knew exactly where we were...:naughty: I made fun of his map but it was pretty damned accurate...


Anyway, I obviously survived. I told him to keep snapping away should I happen to fall off the side. It's not like he'd be able to stop me from tumbling to my early demise if he threw down the camera, and I figured he'd be able to use the photos in the ensuing murder trial :laughing

I made it to the next plateau and waited for Eric before going down the Dowhill of Doom Part II...




The high-exposure section in the right in this photo damn near gave me a heart attack...


I lived to tell the tale.
2 hours later I was on my SM610 headed for the Carrizo Plain! More on that soon...
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Don't feel bad! It's a major hurdle for some of us psychologically. I love people's pictures of that type of riding but I don't like being on it one bit either. I don't feel like I have enough control, which is complete non-sense. Yelling at myself "don't look down you idiot!".

Thanks for sharing yet another awesome pictorial adventure with us! Eric looks way mo' betta on the WR than the KTM
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WoodsChick said:
Hey, I tried to click on my photos but they didn't appear any larger for me :confused: What's your secret?

...or are you teasing me because they're kinda big in the first place? :p
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No Ma’am
I think it’s because I was viewing your photos on my wife’s laptop which is not that big, so I guess it has something to do with your screen size whether you get the full size pic or it is resized for your screen with an option for full size
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Bottom line if you move your mouse on the pic and it asks you would you like to view the full size, go for it, you want be disappointed
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This new software is great for all these pics and apparently disk space is not an issue (right coffee?) as the quality of these and other pics here is very good meaning their size is very big and JPG files are not compressible ..
 
ray_ray said:
This new software is great for all these pics and apparently disk space is not an issue (right coffee?) as the quality of these and other pics here is very good meaning their size is very big and JPG files are not compressible ..
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The pictures here in this thread are hosted by another site (in this case, Photobucket.....which is the website I use also) so they don't use up any disk space or whatever space jpegs use up.
 
ray_ray said:
What about the case where the pics are uploaded from a local hard drive?
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Attachments take up space. On our local club website, we aren't allowed to upload big jpegs, or any jpegs that aren't of motorcycles and in in a ride report. If somebody posts a jpeg in general photos or pet pics, etc., it gets deleted by an site administrator. They are very strict over there. Seems to be more relaxed over on this site as to where you can post an attachment.
 
For some reason I keep revisiting this ride report. The pictures are amazing, and the trails are so very different to what I ride here in Australia.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to make the post.....I really appreciate it..
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BTW, I would the rate that ridgeline trail as having a "Sphincter-Factor" of 10..
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Seahorse said:
For some reason I keep revisiting this ride report. The pictures are amazing, and the trails are so very different to what I ride here in Australia.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to make the post.....I really appreciate it..:thumbsup:

BTW, I would the rate that ridgeline trail as having a "Sphincter-Factor" of 10..:eek:
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Thanks, Seahorse! The trails at Ballinger are really different from what I usually ride, too. I'm usually in forests with big trees when riding my dirtbike, and I spend a lot of time in the desert (probably quite different from your deserts in Australia, too!) on my 610. I've been spending more time down in that area (just spent 2 days riding real close to Ballinger) and it seems the trails and roads are all on spines and ridgetops...or down in sandy narrow washes, not a lot of going uphill or downhill or sidehill stuff. Different for sure! We rode this on Saturday and I was on my 610 with a streety rear tire that was making its last ride before being tossed in the garbage...big fun!

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Looking back up at the road...
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I didn't want to ride back up it as it was loose and slidey, so we rode back through an even looser and slidier sand wash. Great route-finding decision on my part...I heard a lot of "I told ya so's" on that stretch of the ride
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