• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Northwest Fall Gathering Round 2 - China Hat / Bend Oregon Oct 2011

Coffee said:
Some So Cal people came up to ride Stonyford. They said it reminded them of Mammoth Lake.

But Stony welcomes riders and at least I think it is fun to ride.

Might want to check it out at some point. :)
I tired to edit my post before anyone quoted it :)
It's so beautiful here and the land is absolutely amazing, but an astounding percentage of the LEO's should have been born and served during the Nazi regimine. I was born and mostly raised in Cali and it saddens me to see so much of this state locked away for no one to use and the Gov't and advocacy groups are still trying to take more. I know there's killer riding somewhere here, but it's for outlaws only (thanks to USFS).... and they aren't sharing the coordinates.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm pissed. I used to love this state once upon a time, but after my LEO incident yesterday (and the ones in years past) I am done with playing by the rules. Cause I still get fined!
I'm ready for the revolution.....

See some of you in Bend!
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Coffee said:
What happens in these events people start drifting in on Thursday, then there are a few remaining until Monday... for the most part.

I see no reason not to (at least tentatively) pick Thursday October 27th through Monday October 31st.. At China Hat.
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I edited my post slightly... Sounds like it is time to make a couple of phone calls..
 
I'm in. I will be finishing up my annual right before that at China hat.....so more riding?? - I can only be that blessed!
 
It's 600 miles one way to China Hat for me and it'll be in the 20s overnight if the highs are mid 50s. Count me out.
 
600 miles for me too but that weather which is pretty much what it was last year was great. Of course I had a nice warm bed in the hotel.
 
Before people start saying they won't, or will, go. Give me a bit of time, at least 10 days. Not sure what I can come up with, but anything is possible.
 
I've seen 70 degree days out there in mid Nov, so dont let the temps scare anyone.
Anyway, just bring a few beers and a cold weather bag. Problem solved

I think I'm going to sell my RV before then, so I'll be bagging it myself :cheers:

I've got a few people commited for that weekend so far. I can probably get a dozen people to go, but I'm not sure I want to crowd the campground with my unruly, non-husky riding friends.
 
wallybean said:
600 miles for me too but that weather which is pretty much what it was last year was great. Of course I had a nice warm bed in the hotel.
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Drive time between Bend & China Hat? 30 minutes or so?

I am assuming that there are reasonable hotels in Bend, though I did not look for them.
 
I just talked to someone on the phone..
Coffee said:
Before people start saying they won't, or will, go. Give me a bit of time, at least 10 days. Not sure what I can come up with, but anything is possible.
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I continue to make this recommendation...
 
Coffee said:
Drive time between Bend & China Hat? 30 minutes or so?

I am assuming that there are reasonable hotels in Bend, though I did not look for them.
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Yeah, pretty much, There's a couple routes depending on which part of town you stay in. Bend has everything from fleabag to oh-my-god expensive for hotels.
 
BrandonR said:
Yeah, pretty much, There's a couple routes depending on which part of town you stay in. Bend has everything from fleabag to oh-my-god expensive for hotels.
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In this respect, Bend / China Hat is far superior to Stonyford... which is pretty remote. It might be possible that some would prefer not to camp, the ones without camping gear, toy hauler, or just want a nice place to stay.
 
We will have a dozen over from the valley, Camp II, not all on Huskys but they are all welcome, besides you always need someone around to do the dishes!
 
I can pull back up my general information document from last year and update it so all the logistics stuff is in one downloadable place....

Since MoombadRdr opened the can of worms about campsites..

We may want to consider Camp 25 ... it is between 2510 and Camp II, tends to be underused and ignored (you many notice that the FS link up above barely mentions it, this may be why nobody knows about it) it is larger than Camp II, easy to get toyhauler into, doesnt seem to attract the swarms of minibikes running through camp that 2510 has ....

I may be out there this weekend and take some pics so we all have an idea what we are talking about.
 
oregonsage said:
I can pull back up my general information document from last year and update it so all the logistics stuff is in one downloadable place....

Since MoombadRdr opened the can of worms about campsites..

We may want to consider Camp 25 ... it is between 2510 and Camp II, tends to be underused and ignored (you many notice that the FS link up above barely mentions it, this may be why nobody knows about it) it is larger than Camp II, easy to get toyhauler into, doesnt seem to attract the swarms of minibikes running through camp that 2510 has ....

I may be out there this weekend and take some pics so we all have an idea what we are talking about.
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There's better cell coverage at Camp 25 than either of the other camps too if that matters to anyone. Camp II has almost none (have to walk up on the hill to get any service) and 2510 is spotty but Camp 25 was pretty reliable last year.
 
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