Ok I guess it was time to get back into the swing of things and get a good ride report posted. However I felt the need to include some scenery pics as well. Kind of taking the old family slide into cyberspace. I hope nobody minds, I'll save the actual Ride report toward the end, so that way you have something to look forward to. Sorry for how many pictures listed here, and I actually only included the real good ones. Ok here goes. If you remember I headed to the shop to pick up the KLX and the TW200 and we got over half way there and I realized I forgot my helmet as I wanted to ride the bike back 35 miles to the lake, so what was I going to do? Oh sure I could have loaded the bike up in the truck and pouted all weekend while it sat there in the Camp ground parking lot, but nooooooooooo I decided to buy a new helmet and some gloves. Well I liked the look of the green Vega MX helmet, and I also really liked the look of the Matte black Scorpion helmet, I decided to get one of these. Kind of like a combination of both.
And here is the Tensioner that they replaced, it still looks good, I wonder if it really is causing the noise, the mechanic said something that I didn't realize. He said that when you add a skid plate, it amplifies noises up, and so sometimes noises were always there, but now the plate is sending it up. Hmmm food for thought I guess. They said that usually they don't give you the parts, because they are required to keep all warranty parts for 90 days, but they told me if they needed it they knew how to get a hold of me.
Ok now if you can forgive me for posting some scenery pics, this is the lake we stayed at, its 600 ft deep at the deepest spot, and goes from 1 ft deep to 160 in only 40 ft from shore. Here are a few pics.
These pictures are 40-60 ft deep
Ok now these next few are from an old train tunnel from the 20's and 30's used to haul out giant spruce logs.
Original timbers used for the tracks
Ok now onto the ride report. About5 miles from the park a friend and I headed up to the power lines, and we got up there and I realized that I had forgot my camera. So these pictures are from the second day when I re-traced the trip. Some of the campers probably didn't appreciate me getting up at 7:30 and heading out, but oh well.
This first one is from the boat launch, I just thought this tree was cool.
Ok a short trip up the highway and I came back to the bottom of the power lines.
I'm just going to post the pictures as I took them, I figure this is going to be long enough without me going on and on.......Well you didn't have to agree with me.[8D]
Yes there was a little mud.
Its all steeper than any of these pictures can do justice.
I didn't actually go up the single track trails, there were switchbacks all the way up, but still quite a work out.
Half way up.
Looking back you can see the highway way down at the bottom. Also that trail is not where you come up, there was a switchback.
Storm debris
Ok these next few pictures are of a place I visited about 12 years ago, and I have to say if you have ever been close to the edge of somewhere you knew that you shouldn't have been and had the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up, I can guarantee this would do it. The edge doesn't just drop off 3-400 feet, it actually goes under you and then down. I tried to take a few pics, but I got all freaked out and didn't want to get any closer. I didn't want to end up on the news as one more victim hiker falling to a horrible death. Dang I just got one of those all over body shivers thinking about it again.[8D]
Ok back to the ride.
Getting closer to the top
Looking back again.
Ok here is where it got interesting real fast, as I came around the corner I found what some of the people that I have talked to call the hard part, and lets just say it was harder than I wanted to try or will try again. I got half way up and thought to myself "deej (yea I call myself deej too) what are you doing you stupid idiot." I quickly realized that there was no way I was going to make it, and since I was by myself I had better find a safe way to end this and get back down this mountain. So I hit the brakes and dumped the clutch and laid the bike down. Now as I said before, pictures never really show how steep a trail is, so imagine it waaaaaaaay steeper.
Ok this picture is looking down from where I set the bike down, and it actually looks accurate, I guess pictures looking up are less accurate, and down they are closer to the real thing.
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Camping/ride report--warning 50 + pictures
