• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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.

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More summery weather Dual Sport ride 03/28/15

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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So....the weather has been downright hot and dry out here in Southern Cali. Pleasant for some dualsport, but terrible drought still.

It seemed like it was time to pull the big fat heavy bike out for a dual sport ride. My riding partner and I started in Anza, trading pavement and trail back and forth all day. We ended up in Idylwild at La Casita for a late lunch, after hitting Tripp Flats trail, Red Mountain, Hixon trail and Control road. After lunch, we moseyed down the highway to Garner Valley to see if the Forest Service ever opened the gate to one of our favorite loops. Approaching the north entrance, we found the gate covered in padlocks, but traversing the valley floor and heading to the south side, we found no locks on the gate. We proceeded all the way to the canyon before turning around, as it was late in the afternoon, and we still had a ways back to the truck. We just wanted to make sure that we could get in for the next time we ride out that way.

View from the top of Red mountain.


Hixon trail seemed way gnarlier than I remember it being, especially the last part, the steep descent.







Middle section of Hixon on the mountain slope.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJa5pVNhZE


It was pretty good day, and I think I broke my unlucky streak....last three times that I rode my 450 out there, I crashed and got injured (well, the last time it was just my bike that got injured). But I made it through the whole ride on both wheels this time.:banana:
 
We basically did that same ride two weeks ago. Hard to imagine, but there was still patches of snow up in Idyllwild. We ended up doing Hixon both ways. I know what you mean; some of those tight switch-back turns that were steep and rocky were pretty sketchy.
 
ptkatoomer said:
We basically did that same ride two weeks ago. Hard to imagine, but there was still patches of snow up in Idyllwild. We ended up doing Hixon both ways. I know what you mean; some of those tight switch-back turns that were steep and rocky were pretty sketchy.
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Yeah, sliding AND bouncing at the same time. I stalled out a few times.:(
 
Hi Dirtdame long time no hear. Glad you got your bush weapon out and came out unscathed.
Take care and keep posting please-love your work.
 
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