mcrider
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- Jan 1, 2006
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- Location
- Westfield, Texas
- First Name
- Chris
- Last Name
- Hardy
Ray Hooper (Hoop) and Chris Hardy (mcrider) do the Continental Divide Ride in New Mexico.
The route for the first 4.5 days of the ride followed the GPS route by BigDog. Thanks, it was a great help.
Ray & his XR650R. Navigator.
Chris & his 625 SXC
Ray’s Prologue:
I was aching to go for a ride out west, so when mcrider said "when do we leave?" I had to come up with a date. We decided to leave a few days before Labor Day, and ride for about a week. Now, the question was where to go. I had ridden the Colorado and New Mexico portions of the Divide Ride from North to South last year, and wanted to go back and re-do the New Mexico sections, because it was really good riding, and because I was to the point of exhaustion on some of it and didn't really enjoy it as much as I thought I could have. Anyhow, we settled on riding from Deming NM to the Colorado border in 3 or 4 days, then we would decide what to do next.
At the last minute, I also made up a route that tried to go east to the Wild Rivers area, then east again to the Carson NF north of Taos, then head back south and west trying to find dirt roads, avoiding the interstates and large towns as much as possible. I used Garmin City Navigator to look for routes, which I knew would be problematic, but it was all I had time for.
I picked mcrider up on Wednesday, Sept 2, and we drove 14 hours to Deming NM.
Day 0
Ray is to be at my house at 7:30 am Wednesday.
Waiting.
And we are loaded.
The route for the first 4.5 days of the ride followed the GPS route by BigDog. Thanks, it was a great help.
Ray & his XR650R. Navigator.
Chris & his 625 SXC
Ray’s Prologue:
I was aching to go for a ride out west, so when mcrider said "when do we leave?" I had to come up with a date. We decided to leave a few days before Labor Day, and ride for about a week. Now, the question was where to go. I had ridden the Colorado and New Mexico portions of the Divide Ride from North to South last year, and wanted to go back and re-do the New Mexico sections, because it was really good riding, and because I was to the point of exhaustion on some of it and didn't really enjoy it as much as I thought I could have. Anyhow, we settled on riding from Deming NM to the Colorado border in 3 or 4 days, then we would decide what to do next.
At the last minute, I also made up a route that tried to go east to the Wild Rivers area, then east again to the Carson NF north of Taos, then head back south and west trying to find dirt roads, avoiding the interstates and large towns as much as possible. I used Garmin City Navigator to look for routes, which I knew would be problematic, but it was all I had time for.
I picked mcrider up on Wednesday, Sept 2, and we drove 14 hours to Deming NM.
Day 0
Ray is to be at my house at 7:30 am Wednesday.
Waiting.
And we are loaded.