- Jun 5, 2001
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The SoCal Group got together yesterday at Miller Canyon. 12 psychos turned out for the fest. RMJeff, who needs to check the LOCAL weather cause he said it'd be around 84 degrees, NOT. How's 100 sound?!
There were some new riders to the group Triston and KXsteve I believe and it was great to have them along. A mix of about 3 2 strokers and the rest were sally 4 strokers, even one with an electric start!
They finally were able to get me more than 100 yards from my elk, turned out to be a bad thing. I'll get to that later. We took off with Jeff leading the group. If you weren't riding the guys tire ahead of you, you were in deep dusty poopoo!
After a short stop God knows where along the trail, I noticed 89er had a torn jersey and some blood splaters. Along with the torn DRN fender sticker:scream: We had a short ceremony and prayed to the mighty Okie and asked for forgiveness, then all was good agian. I told 89er I was sorry to hear he crashed, sorry that I didn't see it that is!:)
Along the ride, I noticed a flying extra gas container, (I packed it, along with a few waters in a back pack). The little bugger flew over my head and landed on the trail. I stopped and noticed I'd lost my water and another gas container. Not a good thing!:|
Well, we continued along, enjoying the slicing and dicing of the single track. We came to a rock climb and watched as some jeep folks tried to traverse the knarly stuff. We wroke our way through it and made our way farther away from the elk. We must have rode at least 300 miles, give or take! My water supply in the body seemed to be ruinning short. Thankfully for the group we had, everyone was more than willing to keep the elkster watered. Can't say thank you enough for that my friends.:D
On our ride back, Desert Racer and I began a fun little race down the road. The first little detour the Zuki took was all Desert's fault cause his electric start KTM kicked up wayyy to much dust on a 4 inch trail! I took a little off course detour down a gully then reappeared up on the other side. We continued the firendly race down a road and low and behold, POOF! A Ford Bronco was heading the other direction!: I hit the brakes and stopped short of becoming a hood ornament.
Well we finally made it back after we split up on the return trip. I took the fireroad back with Jeff cause I was feeling sick to my stomach with the little water intake I was getting. He got us back and I hit the ground. I heard, "Hey look, it's elk and he's lying motionless on the dirt." I wasn't exactly motionless but I did enjoy lying on my back for about an hour and a half!! And of course Desert Racer wanted to take advantage of the situation and put a rainbow stiker on the back of the elk!:moon:
All in all, it was a great ride, except for my return trip. The dehydration set in and I paid dearly for it. Again, I want to say thanks for the help you guys did when I was down. I'll do that ride again, this time I'm getting a camelback, maybe two! Thanks!
Elk
There were some new riders to the group Triston and KXsteve I believe and it was great to have them along. A mix of about 3 2 strokers and the rest were sally 4 strokers, even one with an electric start!
They finally were able to get me more than 100 yards from my elk, turned out to be a bad thing. I'll get to that later. We took off with Jeff leading the group. If you weren't riding the guys tire ahead of you, you were in deep dusty poopoo!
After a short stop God knows where along the trail, I noticed 89er had a torn jersey and some blood splaters. Along with the torn DRN fender sticker:scream: We had a short ceremony and prayed to the mighty Okie and asked for forgiveness, then all was good agian. I told 89er I was sorry to hear he crashed, sorry that I didn't see it that is!:)
Along the ride, I noticed a flying extra gas container, (I packed it, along with a few waters in a back pack). The little bugger flew over my head and landed on the trail. I stopped and noticed I'd lost my water and another gas container. Not a good thing!:|
Well, we continued along, enjoying the slicing and dicing of the single track. We came to a rock climb and watched as some jeep folks tried to traverse the knarly stuff. We wroke our way through it and made our way farther away from the elk. We must have rode at least 300 miles, give or take! My water supply in the body seemed to be ruinning short. Thankfully for the group we had, everyone was more than willing to keep the elkster watered. Can't say thank you enough for that my friends.:D
On our ride back, Desert Racer and I began a fun little race down the road. The first little detour the Zuki took was all Desert's fault cause his electric start KTM kicked up wayyy to much dust on a 4 inch trail! I took a little off course detour down a gully then reappeared up on the other side. We continued the firendly race down a road and low and behold, POOF! A Ford Bronco was heading the other direction!: I hit the brakes and stopped short of becoming a hood ornament.
Well we finally made it back after we split up on the return trip. I took the fireroad back with Jeff cause I was feeling sick to my stomach with the little water intake I was getting. He got us back and I hit the ground. I heard, "Hey look, it's elk and he's lying motionless on the dirt." I wasn't exactly motionless but I did enjoy lying on my back for about an hour and a half!! And of course Desert Racer wanted to take advantage of the situation and put a rainbow stiker on the back of the elk!:moon:
All in all, it was a great ride, except for my return trip. The dehydration set in and I paid dearly for it. Again, I want to say thanks for the help you guys did when I was down. I'll do that ride again, this time I'm getting a camelback, maybe two! Thanks!
Elk
