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Message: [QUOTE="scar tissue, post: 621003, member: 21098"] A very very good time. Just like the last 2 years :thumb: We made it up there Wed. and ha a good time every day. Fishing, riding hiking, slepping, eating, telling lies around the campfre what could be better :yeehaw: . It was good to get to know Prvt Joker and family a lot better. 2stroke4fun pulled in shortly after and was very cool also,it was good hanging out with you. Boodac and family were already there. Thursday 2stroke, joker and I went for a short loop 2 hour loop before lunch. I believe it was up beach ridge , across Albinata and down Jackass. It was good fun with a lively pace. Albinita was by far the most fun. I got the pleasure of watching Joker take a few Geology samples on jackass. :moon: Glad he wasn't hurt thoose boulders looked quite hard. Cruised back to camp for lunch and family time. The Kern had more water in it than last year so swimming was OK. Oddly enough some of the other trails like Rattlesnake had alot less water. Go figure. Had some fun fishng , eating ice cream from the general store and riding the kids around on the fireroads. Friday came the real ride. 2 stroke, Eel, Joker and I took off. (we just missed Placelast, we would have waited if we knew when you were coming up) Bummer. Joker and I were planning on being out for about 3 hours. We wnet over mohoganey to rattlesnake and then down towards Big Meadow. Lots of fun, a little dusty but good. It was helpful that my camelback was comfortably resting, full of water, back at home in the garage. :confused: Just a had a little 8 oz bottle in a butt pack. About 2 hours in we talk about heading back, 2stroke says yeah were doing a loop it'll be shorter to keep going. (sounds like a Kiwi statement to me) Soon we ride off the bottom of the forest service map. The trails we find are numbered and named but not listed. We stop to get Eel some gas from our 4 stroke tanks, he was on a 2 stroke. His bike ran a little lean and crisp. My empty water bottle came in handy. We started up this real long, steep, rocky, sandy, uphill trail at 9400 ft. 2stroke and Eel apparently mad eit all the way up. my little 250f was just spinning its wheels about 3/4 of the way up, after dog paddleing and pushing for a while my lungs were about to explode and my bike boiled over. 2 ktms' a 450 and 525 came up and stopped a few swtich backs below both boiling over as well. Joker made it up to just below me and boiled over also. We decided to head back. It wasn't worth blowing up the bikes. We took a few interesting detours and crossed a few downed trees. before finding a road we could locate on the map. we took that to the fireroad and hauled a$$ back. 5 hours later, exahuasted and dehydrated we pulled in to camp. Eel and 2stroke made it back an hour or so later. It was a fun time. Joker and I then loaded up the family and hiked up to bald mountain lookout. Very cool for those of you who haven't done it. Troughout Friday more of the crew showed up and we had a nice campfire that night. Sat. I was pretty tired and skipped the AM ride. reserving what little strength I had left for a possible PM upper meadow ride w/ Placelast, Greg and others. I hung out an chatted with Herman the German while he waited for Kiwi. He seemed like a pretty cool cat. We talked about, what else but our next bikes He has me convinced to buy an electric start 4 stroke. Possibly a KTM 525 over a crf450. although the wr450 is still in the running. Placelast returned kinda banged up from his AM advenutes and decided to call it a day. I wasn't completely motivated so I followed suit and loaded up, we drove back happy, exhausted and completely filthy. It was good to see everyone again. and to meet some new people. Our custom tent trailer was comfy however, now my wife wants to buy a full size RV. Spent part of Sunday RV shopping. Now I need a bigger house to store all the toys :thumb: [/QUOTE]

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