In a word ":cool:"
Had a blast , I 'm still sorer than @*#! That's why I didn't post yesterday.
Trails were great (except for the miles of Whoops in some sections. ugh!)
Trees, rocks, streams, cabins, dogs, get offs, cliffs, beers, cows, bees, wat a weekend.
Thurs. we arrived unloaded and took off riding, Thank TTR for sharing the camp spot. I felt really quick and light on my new KLX 340 (coming off and XR600) and was hitting some 2nd gear trails in 4th gear, and losing Fremont Guy. After going over the bars twice. :scream: (once on a rock that bucked me off and once curtousey of a tree stump.) I kicked it down to third, and actually started making the corners.
Fri. TTR, Fremont, Thumbs, and me bailed up Jackass, and did the over the bars thing again, :scream: I love those surprise rocks around corners. ( had to saftey wire a bark buster back on) Fremont and Thumbs caught up to me and off we went again. I decided to ride sweep (to control myself/speed) got kinda tired of that after a few so I made the pass on Fremont, railed a corner that was appearently too small to take sideways. There was a 6FT boulder on the inner part and we had different opinions. It proceeded to rip my throttle right off the bike breaking the housing in 2 , Did I mention we were 20+ miles in the middle of nowhere! Some zip ties & electrical tape later I earned my MacGyver badge and off we went. You allready heard about the rest of the trip with the dog and all.
Sat. the remainder of the crew showed up and we were already pretty beat. we did a marathon loop and had a blast. Thumbs and kip were way low on fuel so we take trail "B"(20 miles) back to camp. About 5 miles into it Kips outta fuel. We Macgyver tranfering fuel from Thumbs via his fuel line and and NGK box for an extender, curtousey off yours truely. thumbs fuel line clamp proceeds to fall into Kips tank. Man, I gotta do everything for these guys!:p On the way back, had a bee fly in my helmet and another down the back of my jersey Ouch! 3 miles later Thumbs is outta fuel. Kip takes off as he's almost out also. I still have over half a tank( gotta love 4 strokes) We leave him there and I ride back to camp and find Kip coasting home on the Highway outta gas. I fill up and Evion bottle fuel of premix and bolt back , If I could only remember where I left thumbs! I come across him after a few wrong turns and were all back. Kip, thumbs, and I take off for a sunset ride after everyone else poops out. Spectacular but uneventful.
Sun: We redo our sunset ride though technical rocks and hill and jam though a canyon with several water crossings. Coming out we climb some narly/ rocky hills (reminded me of John Bull, but with a sheer cliff on one side. ) I wait at the bottom as kip is stuck and get a hand while blowing out a tire. he clears and I make it before rest of the group even catches up to us. As we were hauling butt being the last day and all. We nurse Kip back to camp minus some spokes, and with a completly thrashed Excel rim and tire.
Drove home exhasted and happy. :)
Thanks again GSR and TTR, oh yeah and Thumbs for the chair.