• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Big Bikes On Little Trails

WoodsChick

WoodsChick

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Hey, everyone! I know it's been awhile since I've posted a ride report. There have been some life changes (some good, some not so good) that have kept us off the bikes more than we'd like, but there's been a few rides and reports that never got posted here so thought I'd post one up.


Our friend Mark got himself a brandy-new BMW and wanted to go on a big bike ride. Eric and I saddled up the 950 and the Husky 650 and we all met up for breakfast on our way to Hull Creek up off HWY 108…
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Trail interrupted...
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That's a big rock!
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That trail was a bust but we managed to find some good granite to play on anyway…
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It was hot on the granite, good time for a lunch stop…
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Which means I had time to wander around and look at all the pretty flowers!
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Ok, let's go find some dirt!
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Yeah!
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Eric's digging it, too...
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This section was kind of long and uphill with some tight spots so there weren't many photos. Mark and I stopped for a rest and spent a little too much time waiting for Eric…
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More later…


WoodsChick
 
We waited for Eric long enough to know that something wasn't right, so we suited up (sorta…it was hot!) and turned around…
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Eric must have heard us coming as he was waiting with the camera and caught us coming up the trail…
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Seems he got hung up in a really silty uphill right-hander. It was tough…I had to battle my way through it earlier and barely made it. We're not on knobbies…
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Alright…we are back in business!
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Time to start thinking about finding a place to camp!




WC
 
Time to find some water to cool off in and a place to set up the tents…
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This will do! The Clavey River is one of the very few undammed rivers on the western slope of the Sierra. Thus, the water was not cold at all...
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Enough goofing around, time to set up camp.
That place over there look good!
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We set up camp, ate some dinner and shot the breeze around a fire pit that did not have a fire in it. Restrictions, don'cha know.


Up early the next morning, hoping to find a route down to a river…can't remember which one…sorry…
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Mark is a really good rider and he rides this BMW like a dirt bike. He really likes it!
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There was lots of this going on…
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Oops! The BMW touches terra firma for the first time, but it was just a tip-over. Luckily the 2nd time it happened, when I was on it, Mark was not so quick with the camera :D

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The area had experienced a fire in the previous year or so and there were lots of closed trails and locked gates everywhere. We ended up getting frustrated and running out of time and fuel so we headed back up over the ridge and decided to just bomb back down the hill and head for home.

We had a great time up there on the singletrack (well, singletrack for big bikes, anyway) and I wouldn't mind going back up there again sometime.




WoodsChick
 
Dirtdame said:
Now we will get some REAL ride reports!
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:lol: I'll try to keep up with you! I don't get to ride near as much as you do anymore :(

ray_ray said:
This goes out to WC; Hate to give ya a one-liner so I'll let Mr. Winters say it for me...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo

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What camera do you have? My cell phone just misses the view too often 4 me and yours seems spot on....
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Hah! You crack me up ray_ray...I love that song! :love:

The photos of me were taken with a Panasonic Lumix ZS10. All the other photos that I took were taken with a Panasonic Lumix ZS19.
They take great photos and are very small and light, but they're very susceptible to getting dust inside (thus getting spots on the photos.) The zoom function is also great...all the way up until it isn't. I tend to be hard on them, I guess. I've gone through a bunch of them. I'm sporting an Olympus Tough TG-5 at the moment. Not happy with the zoom function (or lack thereof) at all, but it is waterproof, dustproof, freezeproof down to 14°, and apparently it's "fall out of the mini-Pelican case on the trail while riding" proof :thumbsup:


Huskynoobee said:
Epic scenery! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks, `noobee! Sharing is caring :D



WC
 
WoodsChick said:
Hah! You crack me up ray_ray...I love that song! :love:
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I remember that song from yrs ago and it just fit perfectly for your saga of leaving and coming back... Hoping you might see some humor in it also; Withers sang it like he meant it also;

And thanks for the camera words also...
 
ghte said:
Ahh! Some good adventure riding-Looks like a great playground.
Thank you for sharing WC
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Thanks, ghte! I feel pretty lucky to live so close the Sierra range. There's a ton of good stuff up there. I rode my Terra to Portland, Oregon on dirt for a wedding, and I also rode it for 2 weeks/2500 miles through Nevada on mostly dirt. I should post up a report on those rides...


WC
 
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