Last weekend Eric and I sampled a little bit of everything that Central California has to offer. We staged out of the Carrizo Plain and woke up to this...
It was completely silent until all the birds roosting in the +100-year-old trees woke up. Then it was absolutely deafening...
We hit some high-speed pavement to the south. Man, I love my SM610...
We headed west out of the mountains on a lovely dirt road called Qattal Canyon and headed up into Ballinger Canyon. I thought of Big Red (Melinda Moore) as we passed SongDog Ranch. Lo! What's this? OHV trails?
I really dig my SM610
We headed back north through the Plain and stopped at camp to top off the tanks before continuing north. We ran into a few riders in camp and stood around shooting the breeze for awhile. One of them was a vintage Husky guy and had built a vintage Husky for the show at Mid-Ohio with Gunnar Lindstrom's help! We sent them on their way with a few CafeHusky stickers. Just as we were ready to leave a BLM botanist came over to talk to us. He was there to document some rare wildflowers. "Oh boy...here we go again" I thought to myself. We could tell he was not happy to see "dirt bikes" on the Plain, even though we were both on street bikes with street tires. We had a very lively and interesting discussion about OHV use, grazing rights, oil and other natural resource extraction, the Sierra Club and various other subjects. We talked for about an hour, and we both came away with a better understanding of the "other side." He stopped on his way out and gave us his card and said he really enjoyed talking with us. We enjoyed it, too, even though it shot the better part of the day. We decided to park the bikes and get an early start on our evening...
More to come...
It was completely silent until all the birds roosting in the +100-year-old trees woke up. Then it was absolutely deafening...
We hit some high-speed pavement to the south. Man, I love my SM610...
We headed west out of the mountains on a lovely dirt road called Qattal Canyon and headed up into Ballinger Canyon. I thought of Big Red (Melinda Moore) as we passed SongDog Ranch. Lo! What's this? OHV trails?
I really dig my SM610
We headed back north through the Plain and stopped at camp to top off the tanks before continuing north. We ran into a few riders in camp and stood around shooting the breeze for awhile. One of them was a vintage Husky guy and had built a vintage Husky for the show at Mid-Ohio with Gunnar Lindstrom's help! We sent them on their way with a few CafeHusky stickers. Just as we were ready to leave a BLM botanist came over to talk to us. He was there to document some rare wildflowers. "Oh boy...here we go again" I thought to myself. We could tell he was not happy to see "dirt bikes" on the Plain, even though we were both on street bikes with street tires. We had a very lively and interesting discussion about OHV use, grazing rights, oil and other natural resource extraction, the Sierra Club and various other subjects. We talked for about an hour, and we both came away with a better understanding of the "other side." He stopped on his way out and gave us his card and said he really enjoyed talking with us. We enjoyed it, too, even though it shot the better part of the day. We decided to park the bikes and get an early start on our evening...
More to come...
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