So, back to how I should have started this report....
If you notice, there will be no smilies in my post. The need to put so many, mixed with all the pics, put me over the limit, so I left them all out, with the exception of one.
So now, on to the events of the day.
The plan was set to do the Geek home turf of LPNF Saturday. With a ton of DBAers going, and a chance to ride a location I had never been before, I was in. Up, and on the road by 5:00 AM, to meet at Big Johns for breakfast at 7:00, put me at Pyramid Lake around 6:30.
I would have loved to hit some of that glass that morning.
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Looks like someone needs to call Vanna White, and buy a vowel.
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I stopped for some gas when I got off at Frazier Park, and this cool old Pete was there.
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Red, white, & blue, you gotta love it!
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After a quick breakfast, we went to Geeks house to wait for everyone, most all were already there.
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Geeks little slice of heaven.
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All were paying homage to the Berg.
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Now that the last DBAer showed, we hit the road to the staging spot.
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As CDA said, we had quite the caravan.
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Pulling into the campground.
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The rest of the shots I have is just random trailside shots.
Cleonard and Rack.
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530KTM, CDA, and Rack Jr, along with the dust.
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Notice that we are already seeking out the shade.
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All except CDA who always parked in the sun, to see his scooter sparkle.
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Rivethead, and one of the Jr Palmers, who is hiding behind the tree.
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From that first trailside stop, I put away the camera, and rode. It was some
gnarly, cliff side in spots, single track, that was pretty cool. I'm sorry that I can't say what trails we took, because I have no idea, but after a break at a shady tree with a bench, we back tracked on the same trail to the last junction, and continued on a different trail that had a fairly decent stream crossing, and a few upper gear sections, 3rd gear!
Once out of that section, we stopped at this little creek to gather everyone up.
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A lot of fire damage at this end of the park.
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This was a cool hangout spot, with the water flowing through.
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Even the DBAers were cooling off.
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This is also the spot Cleonard discovered his broken carb linkage. As he hit pavement, we crossed back over, and up to the top at the old look out tower.
It was quite the view.
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The tower was in pretty sad shape though.
CDA getting the view shot.
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Rack was right behind him.
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What seemed to be a trend for the day, 530KTM was last to come up.
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The pre tagged ED cabinet.
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Those are all the shots I have. From there it was down the mountain to the campground, for a ride debriefing. Where little Palmer showed up and said his Dad, and Brother weren't back, so he takes off back upthe fire road we had just came down. We were all sitting there bikes loadedsaying "crap." Just when we were deciding who was going back up, Palmer comes around the corner from his truck in shorts on his bike. It seems they were already back and loaded, waiting for Junior. Palmers statement as he pulled out cussing his kid was classic,"He didn't even check the f@#*ng truck!" Well a few minutes laterwe heard 2 bikes come back down, and stop some distance from us, but even at that distance we could tell Jr got a earfull.
From the campground, a few of us went back to Geeks for some dinner, and refreshments. That's where I'll leave this, but I am looking foward to Carls version. I pulled out at about 10:00 dead tired, but my own shower, and bed felt excellent.
Thanks to all the DBAers for a great ride;
Geek
Irish Hill
Rack
Rack Jr (Yamadawg)
CDA
Palmer and the 2 Jrs
530KTM
Travice
Rivethead and Buddy
Cleonard
and that non DBAer on the DRZ that was a rocket Cameron
You all