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Kelly's Pond Rescue $$$

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My name is Rusty and I went to SHNF today for a short ride on my TTR-250 and had a little bit of trouble. I have been to Kelly's pond in the forest before but usually it's sandy and doable on my TTR250. Well this time it was slick as owl 's snot and at a piece of trail that I have not been down before was Gooey sticky slippery Gumbo mud that just kept you spinning the whole time.
The goo grabbed my end of life Knobbies and just made forward progress impossible. The Yamaha TTR-250 is camping in the forest tonight. I went down a hill and through a :giveup:washout-2-track and it just got worse from there. After a small getoff/laydown, I saw how much gumbo was built-up on both tires and decided that a turn-around was the best plan. Going uphill even after using a branch to dig the mud out yielded very little movement multiple times. I manage to get it off the trail. The bike runs fine the clutch is fine and the battery is fine. It still starts right up. I left it off the trail but need to get it back to the Kelly’s Pond area to take home. What I need is some help getting it back to the Kelly’s Pond camp/pick-up area. For your services I will gladly pay $150.00. But what I don’t want is someone that doesn’t have experience is this kind of knarly Gumbo and have someone get hurt. So Please PM me if you have a crew to do this kind of recue. I will gladly handover cash to get my bike back. I will give details of location and Key etc. in PMs . Please be very familiar with the area. I know there are lots of you that ride SHNF and if you don’t please don’t offer . Thanks a lot. I may just wait until the trail dries out and I will be telling the Rangers the location and circumstance Monday. Thanks for reading.

Rusty Burke
 
That sucks man- hopefully somebody with a quad and some spare time can help you out. I will be out of town tomorrow or I'd be willing to hike to it with you and help get it out.
 
If you decide you just need some muscle let me know.
 
Hail said:
If you decide you just need some muscle let me know.
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Thanks but with weather clearing this this week and a badly twisted knee I think it's best to wait for now. And thanks to Silverbullet and JT for similar offers. That's awesome that you guys would offer to help a total stranger.


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Rusty, I know all about that slim on the Kelleys pond loop, I'm 64 and been riding the SHNF many decades and am very familiar with all trails out there. If you need help call my cell @ 281-414-3334 and I'll help you recovery your bike. I have lots of expierience in riding all that terrain. Larry
 
Buelligan said:
Rusty, I know all about that slim on the Kelleys pond loop, I'm 64 and been riding the SHNF many decades and am very familiar with all trails out there. If you need help call my cell @ 281-414-3334 and I'll help you recovery your bike. I have lots of expierience in riding all that terrain. Larry
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Thanks Larry, I maybe able to go by Thursday or Friday, do you think 3-4 days of dry weather will be enough to change the slim into something better?
 
Re: Kelly's Pond Rescue UPDATE

Thanks to this forum and "Old Dudes on Dirt Bikes" my abandoned TTR250 is on its way home. It would seem to be a joint effort by Buelligan and Mark (not sure of his handle). Silverbullet who hooked me up with Poser who is hauling it home to me now. Anyway I heard it took quite an effort just to get it to roll but I will let Mark the person that rode it out of the quagmire tell that story. So thanks again to all who helped and all that offered help. It's truly amazing the good people of the riding community.

Rusty
 
lol. Great ending to the story and way to go old dudes !!



(I did this once in the black gumbo at the old Speegleville off-road area on Lake Waco . Mid 80's . My buddy and I both burnt our clutches smooth out within 100 yards of each other . Sent him back 2-3 days later with a guy on a 4 wheeler. They hooked a tie down to the handlebar crossbar and they drug him out for miles with that tie down hook sliding this way and that on the crossbar. And then had to go back and get mine. I hate mud.)
 
Great news that they got it out, I wouldn't have been able to sleep, worrying that someone might steal the bike or parts from it.. Glad to hear its going home..

Gary
 
Made the drop about an hour or so ago.
Someone else had gotten it out of the muck and closer to the FS road. I found it pretty easily and loaded it up.
The wheels had about 50lb of mud on them :rofl:
 
This thread gives me warm fuzzies ;-) nice job guys :thumb:
 
Come on, NONE of you guys took pics or GPS locations? How are we spectators supposed to enjoy this? :D Poser, you know better!
 
TwoSmokeDS said:
Where exactly is this quaqmire?
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The bike was between the trail section from Kelly's Pond Rd MC crossing sign going eastbound towards fs204 about halfway between. It didn't get silly slick until just before the downhill but after that I was to far gone and tried to ride it threw. Lessons learned and So much help appreciated. TWTEX does rock.:rider:
 
:clap: Good job guys. I have meet Buelligan once and he is a great guy, I have never meet poser but have read many of his post and am not supprised he got in on the action.
This is what I like about TWT just good folks everywhere you look. :sun:
 
jqueen said:
Sounds like fiction to me!
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Photo courtesy of Poser !! This was after Mark got it out. I didn't think to take one of it before I left it.
 
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