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[QUOTE="YZMAN400, post: 1082853, member: 49098"] [B]Day 4[/B] 7:00am Up again. For some unknown reason it took us FOREVER to get moving this morning. I was sitting around packed for like an hour waiting for the rest to get moving. Jason did have to make a few calls to try and find some brake pads so Ill cut him a little slack there. 10:00am Finally we get moving. We headed down the trail…well we found the trail. Tim informed me with a huff that we missed like ½ mile of 2-track….Big woopidy doo. But he was a little miffed that we kept missing trail. 1st it was little O then it was part of Lincoln Hills, Then Kalkaska, then part of Atlanta, Now the tail end of Mio. We all thought we were going to be able to ride all of the trail. But I knew early on that was not realistic in 5 days. There was just no way that was going to happen, not with all the delays and we were having. So we had to skip a little here and there. Well I was getting a little miffed with Tim this morning for some reason. I think it has to do with being around guys for this long. It’s inevitable, you hang out with guys this long and you start to wear thin on each others nerves. So I decided that I wasn’t skipping even 1 ft of trail this day. My plan was to run Tim into the ground. He was already complaining earlier about how he wasn’t getting enough sleep at night cause we kept him up. Well I could see he was slowing down a little and I moved in for the kill. We pushed and pushed and pushed. Some real nice trail. Tim and his saddle bags were not liking it at all. I was having a blast. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/noquad3.jpg] > No Quads < [/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/singletrack.jpg] >Single Track<[/url] One uphill got Tim, and instead of helping get him moving we all just sat there and waited, forever, for him to get his bike running and up the hill. He was being a little bullheaded so we just let him deal with it on his own. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/impassable.jpg] > Ugly < [/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/timhill.jpg]>Tim before the hill>[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/timhillgonebad.jpg]>Tim after the hill<[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rudyhill.jpg] >Rudy Climbing the hill>[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rickhill.jpg] > Rick on Hill < [/url] 12:00pm Luzurene and lunch. We filled up the bikes here and got lunch at Ma Deeters. Nice little bar. HOT little barfly waiting on us. Having not showered in 4 days I am sure that we did not leave a good impression on her at all. Oh well. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/madeeters1.jpg] > Drive like hell < [/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/madeeters2.jpg] > Ma Deeters < [/url] 1:30pm Back on the trail. More nice single track. All the rain reeked havoc on this trail. Rooty hill climbs and downed trees. Way too much fun. I made it to the Meadows system and stopped to wait for the rest. From all the rain there was a river running down the trail. Pretty cool. I dunked my head in there to cool off. As I was waiting a tractor drives up down the orv trail. It was the forrest service. They were trying to get the river out of the trail. It was draining into a road and had flooded it. We chatted with him a little. Mentioned the downed trees in the trail and he actually sounded interested in trying to fix it. Now that is strange. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rivertrail2.jpg] >river trail<[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rivertrail1.jpg] >More river trail< [/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/fedquadtard.jpg] >Quadtard? <[/url] Jason was pretty whipped after this last section of trail so I gave Tim and Jason an out. Tim and Jason were going to take the orv trail to the south end of the Meadows loop and Rudy, Rick and I were going to ride the single and meet up with them. I could tell that Tim really didn’t want to skip any trail but he was getting tired. We met up with him ½ way thru this system and he was wondering what the trail was like (It had been pretty intense up till he left) This section was awesome. I lied to him and told him it was nasty. He continued on with the orv route. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/jason.jpg] > Jason en Route < [/url] The next section of single was horrible. All woops and ****. Somewhere in here I managed to scare up a deer that was resting in a shady spot in the trail. Actually I don’t know who scared who, that critter got my heart rate up pretty good when it jumped up 20ft in front of me. It ran a short distance away and stopped. I waved Rudy and Rick off and managed to get 2 pictures of it before it ran a way. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/deer2.jpg] > deer 1 < [/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/deer1.jpg] > deer 2 < [/url] When we finally cleared this section and met up with Tim and Jason 1st words out of Rudy’s mouth to Tim was “man was that a great section or what” I just smiled……He just said that to get Tim’s goat. Rose City was up next, actually some nice trail in there. I was having fun. I learned another trick. I pulled up to an intersection and waited, pretending to fiddle with my gps or glasses. As soon as Tim would turn off his WR I would stab the gas and was gone. Because of his saddle bags he had a hard time starting his bike. Anything to make him work a little harder. Heck he is only 19. He has plenty of energy right. 6:00pm Jason had made arrangements to meet up with his Husaberg dealer who had agreed to drive his rear pads to him. Jason had mentioned turning off on Sage Lake Road to go get his pads. So I set off in search of it. The trail thru here is awesome. I was having a good time. I think I went on a 15 mile run thru here without stopping. When I finally hit the road I was getting tired. I couldn’t hear anyone behind me so I ran down the road to a house to see if we might be able to use there hose to cool off and fill our drink systems. But no one was home. Before I could get back to the trail Rudy blazed past me and was gone. Instead of chasing him down I waited for the rest of them. So now Rudy is on a mission chasing me but I am behind him. Tim and Rick eventually show up. Tim got on me for riding so long without stopping. Asked me if I didn’t like riding in a group. I just shrugged (thinking to myself, I would ride with the group if the group could keep up). I ran down the road to see if I could intercept Rudy but had no luck. He was ridding like the wind. We waited a little longer and still no Jason. I had managed to scuttle the whole bunch. We made a plan for Tim to ride down the road to try and get ahead of Rudy and meet up with us at 7:00pm at the Ogemaw hills staging area (hopefully with Rudy) and he was gone. Then a few minutes latter Jason rides up coming down the road instead of the trail. So now we have me Jason and Rick but have lost Tim and Rudy. Apparently Rudy finally reached a point in the trail when the tracks he was following (not mine) disappeared. He realized something was up and called Jason on his cell. Jason after relaying this info to us called Rudy back and left a message to meet us at the staging area. Rick and Jason headed off to get ahead of Rudy and try and find Tim at the staging area. I jumped back in on the trail to make sure Rudy wasn’t on the trail somewhere broke down or something. After a bit I found the turn where Rudy realized I was not in front of him. From there on out it was easy to follow him as his was the only track on the trail. I felt like an ol bloodhound chasing down my prey. I found a spot in the trail when his track quit. I backtracked and realized that he turned off the trail and onto a 2-track. I followed his trail as best as I could and eventually found myself descending a steep bank and crossing railroad tracks. I followed the track towards St Helens. After a bit I saw a headlight coming my way. It was Tim, but no Rudy. Hmmm. The track I followed across the RR tracks was Tim’s not Rudy’s. Apparently Tim and Rudy were very close to each other but somehow missed each other. 7:45pm So Tim and I headed down to the Ogemaw staging area to wait. I knew that at some point we were all going to need gas and if we didn’t meet up at the staging area we would all end up in St Helens. Someone in a Goldwing was there and we chatted with him for a bit. Nice fella. He even offered us use of his shower as he lived close by. But we were still missing 3 riders. Finally the rest of the crew shows up. Apparently they went up to the Ambrose Lake staging area to wait. After figuring out were we were at the headed down to find us. 8:00pm We make it to St Helens for gas. 8:30pm Hit the Peach Pit for Dinner. All you can eat Pizza and salad Bar Buffet. Yummy! 9:00pm Tim and Rudy headed north to the Ambrose lake campground. Jason, Rick and I waited around for Jasons brake pads to be delivered down at highway 75. 10:00pm Jason’s Husaberg dealer arrives with Jason’s parts. That man is a saint. I can’t think of any of my dealers that would drive an hour out of there way to deliver parts. But he said that he can’t let one of his Husabergs down. Very nice fella. We hit the road north to try and find camp. 11:00pm Finally after wandering around forever we found camp. That place is not easy to find. I was wiped out but good. I threw my tent down, stripped out of my riding gear and fell fast asleep. Done. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/ambroselakecamp1.jpg] > Ambrose Lake Camp < [/url] To be continued………. [/QUOTE]
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