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- Joined
- Feb 1, 2007
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- Location
- Ten Sleep, WY
- First Name
- Justin
- Last Name
- Smith
It's been crazy here mis amigos, with two kids (one of them new), job going nuts, and moving to a new (rental) house thrown in over the holiday weekend. Ugh.
But don't despair I have been out a few times, just no chance to write up the reports.
Took my co-worker out for his first DS/Trail ride a few weeks back. Wore the poor guy out on heavily whooped ST before we hit the Powerline Road.
Love riding powerline roads through the lava fields.
Did some hill-climbing (did I ever post the video?? hmmmm...)
Ripped it up on the singletrack (no pictures, too much fun) and then headed home along the same powerline in a light rain. Love riding in the rain around here, really helps with the dust.
Late on the night of July 3rd (two days after our move and still buried in boxes) I got a text inviting me out for a 4th of July ride the next morning. I couldn't pass it up. We started at a buddy's house and were on dirt within a mile or two. From there headed west to link up with a snowmobile trail that runs from just north of Mt. Bachelor all the way to the north of Sisters, Oregon.
Absolutely incredible views along the way. This is how to spend the 4th of July.
Chewing on a powerbar while a buddy snapped the shot... lots of mountains poking out of the trees. I didn't get very many good shots on the ride, unfortunately, but it was epic.
Checking out a fire tower... the view from up here was incredible. Apologies for the snapshots, I have no time to post process at all these days.
My bike was running *most* excellent with new jetting.
Popped in and out of deep forest to burned forest all morning. This is looking over Sisters towards Mt. Jefferson I believe.
After riding some awesome gnarly jeep track through another lava field we popped out at Skylight Cave north of Sisters.
My shots of the cave that day sucked but I was impressed so took the family up there the next weekend. Pretty cool place!
My boy found toads at the entrance and spent a bunch of time there.
So let's see... that was Saturday after the 4th I think. On Sunday the day was a cooker and I did family time all day. At about 4:00 in the afternoon, with no AC in the house, I texted a few buddies to see if they'd be up for a last second ride. One replied and we beat feet for the mountains, just in time to be caught in a pretty good thunderstorm. Which was awesome because it tamped the dust and we had a ball. Finally got stopped at the snowline and turned around in a cloud of mosquitoes.
That almost catches us up... Last weekend I got another co-worker out on his first dirt ride. He cracks me up... bought a DR200 and got bit by the bug in a huge way. Now he's fully kitted and armored out and still on a... DR200. I started a pool at work to see how long he'd last until he buys a new bike . At any rate we made it through the snow field in the picture above and were able to connect through to the lakes on the back side. Still getting the photos uploaded from that one (there weren't many) and now it's already another weekend...
But don't despair I have been out a few times, just no chance to write up the reports.
Took my co-worker out for his first DS/Trail ride a few weeks back. Wore the poor guy out on heavily whooped ST before we hit the Powerline Road.
Love riding powerline roads through the lava fields.
Did some hill-climbing (did I ever post the video?? hmmmm...)
Ripped it up on the singletrack (no pictures, too much fun) and then headed home along the same powerline in a light rain. Love riding in the rain around here, really helps with the dust.
Late on the night of July 3rd (two days after our move and still buried in boxes) I got a text inviting me out for a 4th of July ride the next morning. I couldn't pass it up. We started at a buddy's house and were on dirt within a mile or two. From there headed west to link up with a snowmobile trail that runs from just north of Mt. Bachelor all the way to the north of Sisters, Oregon.
Absolutely incredible views along the way. This is how to spend the 4th of July.
Chewing on a powerbar while a buddy snapped the shot... lots of mountains poking out of the trees. I didn't get very many good shots on the ride, unfortunately, but it was epic.
Checking out a fire tower... the view from up here was incredible. Apologies for the snapshots, I have no time to post process at all these days.
My bike was running *most* excellent with new jetting.
Popped in and out of deep forest to burned forest all morning. This is looking over Sisters towards Mt. Jefferson I believe.
After riding some awesome gnarly jeep track through another lava field we popped out at Skylight Cave north of Sisters.
My shots of the cave that day sucked but I was impressed so took the family up there the next weekend. Pretty cool place!
My boy found toads at the entrance and spent a bunch of time there.
So let's see... that was Saturday after the 4th I think. On Sunday the day was a cooker and I did family time all day. At about 4:00 in the afternoon, with no AC in the house, I texted a few buddies to see if they'd be up for a last second ride. One replied and we beat feet for the mountains, just in time to be caught in a pretty good thunderstorm. Which was awesome because it tamped the dust and we had a ball. Finally got stopped at the snowline and turned around in a cloud of mosquitoes.
That almost catches us up... Last weekend I got another co-worker out on his first dirt ride. He cracks me up... bought a DR200 and got bit by the bug in a huge way. Now he's fully kitted and armored out and still on a... DR200. I started a pool at work to see how long he'd last until he buys a new bike . At any rate we made it through the snow field in the picture above and were able to connect through to the lakes on the back side. Still getting the photos uploaded from that one (there weren't many) and now it's already another weekend...