Boise and beyond

[bajataxi]

Wassup strange(rs)!
Almost forgot about this place, until I saw Rack showing up elsewhere, hope all is good.
Busy riding here, how about a copy and paste trip report from September '13;


The bikes;

The boy;

My son lives in Idaho, so every year I load up the bikes and make the drive to Boise and beyond.....
I tried to get some Cali boys to go up there, but you know what they say

It rained good the week before I got there, temps were cooling and the fires were laying down, perfect timing.

16 hours up the lonely hwy, get some sleep and stock up for the next stop

the "hard and technical part", oh great.....

 

[bajataxi]

Some of the Boise boys met us up there, we took an easy "blue trail" to start with;

what you can't see is the rain rut chock full o' rocks and bikes and bodies steaming.....

An easy lil switchback;

smooth buttery rocks

MotoMergan used to be a Cali boy but he has adapted well to the northern climbs;

You definitely have to earn the views around here;

 

[bajataxi]

these trails were definitely work, a lot of them started with a B

for breakfast.............

once up top however;

no dust

we would do that far stuff another day;

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[Rack]

Welcome back! nice ride report!

 

[jackson409]

Nice RR

 

[bajataxi]

down the trail some;

and now the other way;

and straight ahead;

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[bajataxi]

so after some smoking and laughing

we all gather up

and look for signs

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[SRAD97750]

so after some smoking and laughing

I LOVE smoking and laughing trailside...

Cool trails! -BIG DAN

 

[DirtBikeUtah]

I'm only a couple days into winter down here in central Utah and already miss the mountains. Thanks for posting the pics. That looks like an amazing ride. Oh and thanks for the picture of the map.

 

[bajataxi]

25 miles in 5 hours?!

That was quite the trail with the first 5 miles being the hardest....

At this point we had a couple tired riders and a yellowjacket victim who were thinking of home

or at least a place to rest

A few of us still had some gas so we thought we'd ride up this

we cleared 3 or 4 trees off the trail until we gave up, ironwood deadfall isn't easy to cut or break....

Oh well, might as well go do some easy trails

 

[bajataxi]

the rest of the easy stuff to finish up the first day;

nice bridge, trail user fees at work! Carry a saw if you go that way....


Meadow to Loon Lake, we thought about hiking to the plane crash, for 1/2 a second.....

Secesh, labeled black diamond on the map, uh no barely a blue (this section - heard the other section "has some spots"

trails end;

so easy a snake could do it;

Sorry, no pics of the cold beverages, hot fire, millions of stars or the rib eye dinner

 

[rezrider]

Nice RR..... looks beautiful up there.....

 

[Mojavekid18]

i think this just made it on my bucket list

 

[tima414]

I need to get out there to ride asap....

 

[bajataxi]

I need to get out there to ride asap....

No hurry, it's all snowed in until next summer.

Day 2 started with ice on the seats and hot coffee

The creek was steaming (outlet from hot springs)

Back through the easy stuff

across the river

and upstream this time

not how it's done

good dirt, good trail

somewhere we missed the trail junction and did not stay on the river, we heard it has some scary spots....next time

We ended up on Whangdoodle trail, what a name, what a trail!

naked trees

back to the green stuff

back to work