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[QUOTE="YZMAN400, post: 1079229, member: 49098"] [B]D-DAY! Day #1[/B] Well Monday June 26th finally came around. My wife offered to drop me off at the White Cloud staging area at 9:00am so I wouldn’t have to leave my truck there all week. We got there after a slight detour back to my house to get my backpack that I forgot on the kitchen floor (yea ok it was early and I was a little scattered because this trip was actually happening after all these months of prep) 9:00am So we show up at the staging area to meet the 2nd member of our team Tim. He is riding a 99 WR400. His packout consists of a set of saddlebags, a watertight bag on the fender (no rack though), a moose # plate bag, and a really nice Ogio backpack [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/timspackout.jpg]>Tims loaded up rig<[/url] 10:00am Our next 2 members, Rudy and Jason, were supposed to meet us at 9:00am also. They had camped at White Cloud campground like 2 miles down the road. But somehow they got lost on the drive over to the staging area (the big brown OFFROAD VEICHLE STAGING AREA sign on the road must of confused them). By the time they found the staging area it was 10:00am and they had already ridden like 18 miles. But they were there. So a few quick introductions and we were on the trail at last. Rudy is riding a WR250 this is his bike [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rudyspackout.jpg]>loaded up<[/url] Jason is on a Husaberg….a 450 I think here is his bike [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/4d73d9df.jpg]>loaded up<[/url] And so the adventure begins. Within the 1st mile or so we had to stop so Tim could adjust his luggage that was bouncing all over the place. A few miles down the trail and Jason announced that he went down, bruised his hip and bent his front rim. But he was still good to go. 11:00am Then at about mile #6 Rudy snapped the return cable in his throttle cable. Things were not starting out very well at all. We got the remains of Rudy’s broken cable out and he was good to go again. On the Yamaha thumpers they have a push pull throttle cable. The return cable always seems to be the one that breaks which is great, because you can still ride the bike that way. The throttle is just a little sloppy. Around this time I was really starting to wonder what I had gotten myself into. I mean we started an hour late and within the 1st six miles we had a few pretty good delays. This was going to be an interesting week to say the least. So with Rudy’s bike patched back up we finally start to make some time. Everybody’s luggage seams to be riding ok for the time being. It was decided to make a stop at Peacock for a new throttle cable when we get up that way latter in the day when we get close. [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/whitecloud.jpg]>group on the whitecloud trail<[/url] We are now out of the White cloud trail and into the Big O trail system. [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/timbigo.jpg]>Tim on the Big O<[/url] 2:00pm Somewhere on the southern section of the Big O we are heading down a dirt road and see a handful of bikes ahead coming our way. At 1st I see this ratty ol blue bike with a cobbled headlight on it. The rider was partly shirtless. My 1st thoughts are just some backwoods locals riding there rolling trash down the road. As I get closer to them this blue bike swerves at me, I counter the other way. He counters back at me, I slow to a stop and suddenly it hits me…..WOODSY!!! Scott, Ted, Larry, Bob and a friend of there’s were out for one of there legendary Monday rides. They started at Twin Lake and ended up intercepting us. I had told Scott weeks ago that we would be leaving that Monday. He remembered and tracked us down like an ol coon dog. [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/bigoencounter.jpg]>Picture #1<[/url] [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/scotttedandlarry.jpg]>Picture #2<[/url] After chatting for a few minutes Rudy reminded me that we had to get on the trail and up to Peacock for his cable. So we were off once again. 3:00pm We are now into the Whiskey Creek area. Shortly after we passed Hawley road, Rudy and Jason disappeared. A short backtrack found Rudy transferring some gas from his Wr to Jason’s Husaberg. Jason’s 2.4gal tank was dry (could of had something to do with that 18 mile detour in the morning maybe?). Jason had previously informed us that his fuel range was probably going to be an issue. And it was starting to rear its head. As it turns out it wasn’t that big a deal as gas was mostly available when we needed. Once back running it was determined to skip a short section of trail and make a bee line to my cabin near Branch were I had stashed 5 gallons of gas. On this short ride to the cabin it started to sprinkle. 3:30pm At the cabin we gassed up and a quick look at the sky told me to put on my rain jacket. A quick look at the time told us that we weren’t going to be able to run the top of the Little O and still get to Peacock in time for Rudy’s parts. 4:00pm So we decided to run US-10 east to Peacock. On the ride over it started to rain….HARD. By the time we got there we were all pretty soggy. But the folks at Peacock didn’t seem to mind. They had Rudy’s part in stock. Tim got some new gloves and a few bungee cords to reinforce his luggage tie down system. 4:30pm With that settled we headed down the road for gas and dinner over at Club-37. At the restraint I checked my messages and found the final member of our group was waiting to meet us at Ravine campground south of 55. It was funny. Even though the folks at club-37 are used to us offroad crowd we still got a few strange looks as we pretty much took over a few tables with our riding gear spread all over. That “strange look” trend ended up following us throughout the week wherever we went. 5:30pm Back on the bikes it was still raining a little bit. We ran single track up to 7 mile staging area when it quit raining. We shed our rain gear and dove back into the trail. [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/littleManistee.jpg]>Lincoln Hills Staging<[/url] The trail was wet and slippery. The trees were wet as heck. After a few miles of this soaking we decided to hit the ORV route up to Lincoln Bridge to save a little time. The ORV route had just been graded. There wasn’t a single track on it. With the grading and all the rain it was like we were surfing in dirt, pretty strange. After several miles of this we were getting a little tired of it and dove back into the single. Man that was wet. All the branches were wet and hanging low. We got soaked. Finally up to Lincoln Bridge we stopped for a brief rest. On up past that is more single track up to the Ravine campground. 8:30 After a good bit of trail we finally hopped out and headed to the camp were Rick was waiting. As we set up camp Rick and Jason headed over to the nearest gas station to get some….refreshments. [url= http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/ravinecamp2.jpg]>Ranine Campground<[/url] 12:00am Having put a healthy dent in our liquid refreshments we finally went to bed around midnight. Approx milage for the day was about 118 To Be Continued............. [/QUOTE]
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