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[QUOTE="WALKMAN, post: 778718, member: 20160"] KTM Mike, I don't know if you remember me, but we picked you up a couple of years ago on sweep at the Jackpine, when your katoom decided she was tired! well, you are very familiar with the area so I have to share this story. Last weekend my brother in law and I thought we would ride the Mio and Hunt Creek loops all as one, I have ridden both in the past and am very familiar with these trails. Randy has never ridden both trails, but being a very avid hunter he knows all the roads. After losing my nephew to a twisted ankle from a black soil, tree roots, too much throttle incident, we thought we would continue on. We had a great ride and we were on a great second wind and doing our best "AA enduro rider" impressions as we were finishing our ride heading back to the Muskrat Lake trailhead. We thought we would take the road from there, which is only a mile from the cabin on 32. As I came ripping around a corner there was Randy sitting beside the trail out of gas! I looked at my tank (which is transparent) and saw about a quart or less in the bottom, with no options and thinking we knew where we were, he stayed and I went for help with a new save gas attitude! After crossing two sections and thinking we should be at the parking area, I thought I would get off the trail and take a road! First road came up and I took it! Snake Branch Rd? where in the H*$$ is that! Sun is in the south keep it to my left should be going west! next road Pennsylvania crossing! never heard of that, ORV route I'll take that! BIG circle back to bike trail on Snake Branch Rd!!! After 4-5 miles of wasted gas (a savior, come to find out) I got back on the bike trail and went about 4/10 ths of a mile and heard the familiar Brrrrrrrrr of a dying bike! OUT OF GAS! Nothing to do but walk, the trailheads only a mile ahead and another mile to the cabin, I've did 40+ mile road marches in full MOP gear in the service, I surely can walk two in full moto gear! after an hour and the camelback was dry, I was starting to talk to myself when I heard a bike, it turned out to be a kid looking for the road to safety, his buddy had broken down and he was getting help, only problem, he was not sure where he was at! after hitching a very short ride from him on the back of a KX250 and my legs cramping from trying to hold them up! I decided to walk again! Difference is now theres a hint of panic, let's see sunday afternoon, been walking 1 1/2 hours, have no idea where I'm at and only saw one other lost person! Then I hear bikes again, not on the trail but running alongside, should I make a run for it through the woods or stick to the trail that has to go somewhere? stick to the trail, no sense in getting more lost (if theres such a thing?) two more hills and what greets me a big hungry, hunting coyote looking for some carrion to scarf down! Told him I'm not dead YET and he ran off, I'm positive circling, waiting for the moment. Just after that incident I here bikes again this time coming down the trail, I pick up the pace just enough to meet these GREAT older gentleman crossing the bike trail on a two track! Eight all together! What a godsend, they even had GPS! after a rest (from two hours of walking) and getting my wits back together. These saviours split up to give me a ride to the cabin and go get Randy ( who had pushed his bike out to the first road and knew exactly where he was, with no gas and not seeing one person the entire 2 hours). We were saved!!! After getting back to cabin,I thought I knew these guys, they are a group from South Bend, Indiana and back in 98 I had met them in Evart. A rider had a heart attack on the trail and my buddy was a nurse and tried to revive him with CPR even though he said he was past that point. These guys were from that same group! Ghostly heh? Moale of the story= speed kills, during our racer impersonation we completely blew by the cutoff for the trailhead and were starting our second loop, we had went two miles past and I walked another 6 miles almost heading back into the" black yuckies"! Lessons learned= our bikes can go 60 miles on a tank THATS IT! always carry a map, watch (the sun was in the west, to my left I kept going north) and a compass. no matter how well you know the trail! Call me if you need a trail guide, Its the first time I've ran out of gas and got lost in twenty years of riding in the MIO area (HONEST)! [/QUOTE]
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