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Northwest KDX'ers meet?
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[QUOTE="jimicarl, post: 169459, member: 24432"] [b]YES!! AWESOME!!![/b] Hey; Emerald Trail Riders Association, Eugene. Our little "KDX Klub" sub-club of a half-dozen would certainly have representation at a NW meet. WHAT A GREAT IDEA!! Although..., I wonder how to administer such a ride. Poker run, maybe? Then, who would do the organizing? COMAC? I'll bet that a loosely organized "come-one come-all message over the internet" would net a ****-load of riders, which would almost certainly attract the attention of the forest service. I dunno. Maybe not. Something to think about. Whoever said that Gifford Pinchot (GPNF) is like East Fort Rock (EFR) has rocks in his head. Where EFR is flat, fast & dusty..., GPNF is exceptionally steep & rugged, generally slow going, mostly deep woods and above-the-treeline. Honest-to-god (10"wide) single-track on AT LEAST 100% side hill. Blow a turn and you'll spend a couple hours hoisting your bike back onto the trail. Some of the switch-backs are so steep and sharp that you must dismount and lift your bike around the turn, (then immediately scale a 3' vertical wall with only about 5' of a run). If you don't have a good map & compass (or GPS) and somebody who knows it to ride with..., you'll almost certainly get lost first-time out. Take your eyes off the trail to absorb the unbelievable scenery, and risk disaster (not just off-the-trail disaster, but tumble-down-a-300'-rock-cliff kind of disaster. My last ride there (which was my first) included a group of 8, and required all to hoist the bikes over a 6' diameter windthrow across the trail, and work the bikes over an un-bridged large extremely rocky creek (like a small river fer cryin'out lout). And all this after committing group suicide bulldogging off a steep road-side to follow a trail of ribbons that we THOUGHT (thankfully, correctly) was a newly hewn trail. It's KDX country for sure. But does NOT compare AT ALL with EFR. It apparantly stays open because of the amount of rainfall they typically get. I believe it's open right now! I'd love to go back this year..., but need to think about the season. I hear that they'll get snow, very early. We went in, about 1 1/2 hours north of Hood River, through White Salmon. Brown's Camp (and many other similar staging areas) are in the Tillamook State Forest, roughly between Portland and Tillamook. It's embedded in the coast range along the Wilson River Highway (Hwy 6). Also relatively steep, rocky and rugged. ETRA is doing it's annual Till-U-Puke ride there, in a couple weeks. Believe me..., it really is "'till you PUKE". There are several riding areas there, that stretch down to Willamina (Upper Nestucca). Fun riding. Expect gouges! Your new plastic, unscuffed frame and new tires will look very different after a weekend there. The area near Bandon..., is known as "Winchester". It's about 15 miles south of Coos Bay, on Hwy 101, on the Coos County Forest. I've ridden it only on my mountain bike. It's very tight deep woods, infested with slick exposed roots. And, it's relatively short. I think you'd be done with it in a half-day. Another punishing place to ride, I'm told. In order to cater to the novices & lower skill levels, I think that EFR is a good bet. EVERYBODY can have fun there, and it's really central to the State. Newbies at GPNF could easily get themselves into a bunch of trouble (emergency nights out on the trail are a real possibility, and an injured rider might be difficult to extract). The Tillamook forest is a good riding area..., but again the newbies will certainly have touble with many trails. It's a bunch of fun, but can be a bunch of work. How 'bout the riding area near Jacksonville, administered by the rider's club in Medford (MRA)? I hear it's fairly rugged, but fun & makeable. How 'bout 4-corners, south of Prineville? A lot like EFR, but flatter? Most of the areas we ride around the south end of the valley, are heavily broken between private and public, which makes riding difficult to access. You know..., descriptions of all these areas (with some maps) are accessible on the [url]WWW.[/url] Search the USFS. Search Oregon State. Search OOHVA.org. Take a look at the ETRA website (ETRA.net), and hit "places to ride". Also on the ETRA website..., hit "links" for access to many of the other rider's club's websites. Let's keep this thread going. We should be able to figure something out. Woudn't it be a gas to ride with bunch of other KDX's? Pray for rain. [/QUOTE]
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