glangston
Husqvarna
Pro Class
In! Can I borrow your bike? Actually, bikes need to be plated in order to ride the last 100 yards or so to Lett's Lake so bring a TE, ok?
Sure, George's bikes don't sink.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
*** New Dates! *** Spring Fling Husky Ride, Stonyford, CA, May 13,14,15
- Thread starter WoodsChick
- Start date
Husqvarna
Sure, George's bikes don't sink.
Here's a photo I took of part of the Stonyford map. It's kind of big (sorry!) but it shows some of the trails and terrain and the campground, too...
With the new forum it resizes so it does not mess up the peoples threads until they click on it to make it bigger.
Mind if I make the link in post #1 a bit nicer to look at?
Please do!
I believe that looks a bit better. I typed in the words "Stonyford Recreation Area Link", highlighted those words, then clicked on the link symbol. Then a window popped up and I could paste that long link in.
I should go update that tips and tricks thread I put up today.
I should go update that tips and tricks thread I put up today.
TonyWilliams
Husqvarna
B Class
I lived in NorCal for 10 years, but never rode there. I'm supposed to be returning from Italy about then.
TonyWilliams
Husqvarna
B Class
It's about 600 miles each way from SoCal. Perhaps my oldest son could deliver bikes for guys from SoCal that want to buy a cheap round trip ticket on Southwest Airlines to Sacramento.
That would be cool to meet you and some of the SoCal crew! Where did you live in NorCal?
TonyWilliams
Husqvarna
B Class
Fremont, east bay. Then I lived in Sacramento (Rancho Cordova).
Stlll have the WR300 and Bill let me ride a TE511 yesterday. I think I'm in love convenient that it is Valentines Day :-)
Daniel508s
Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey, everyone! We had so much fun at the PNW Ride that we want to do it again!
We're thinking Stonyford in the Mendocino National Forest in Northern CA on March 25,26,27 2011.
Stonyford Recreation Area Link
Stonyford features quite a bit of varying terrain and has something for everyone: tight stuff through the trees with lots of elevation changes, wide open quad trails, huge long hillclimbs, rocks and creek crossings, easy dualsporty routes, lots of forest roads, a lake to swim in if it gets warm, and a small play area for kids. It even has a monument to a fallen Husky rider up in the trees
I can reserve the Gray Pine Group Campground if we have enough attendees to make it worth our while. It has fire rings, tables, bathrooms, garbage service,and a few of the only trees left in the camping areas after a big fire swept through there years ago. The MNF website says it has potable water but there hasn't been potable water in the other campgrounds there for a few years so I'd have to double check that.
Anyway, let me know if you're interested!
WoodsChick
As we get closer to March 27th I will get some directions from you. I know a people can get lost easy in that area, plus I will be driving there early in the morning. Will be fun, cant wait.
Just to be clear, the meeting / camping place is Gray Pine Group Campground - which is about 2 football fields before Davis flats. Although we should have some type of signal set up I suppose.
Look at the map in post #22
Well, it is tentatively Gray Pine Group Campground. I want to see how many people we're going to have before reserving the group campground. It's $75 per night, but if we have enough people it will be well worth it.
Also, when cresting the ridge and coming down the hill towards the camping/staging areas, you can look down onto the campgrounds and see them all quite clearly. I'll do up a Google Maps tomorrow. For some reason I'm not getting the background map on it right now.
Well ok, but the intention at least at this time, is to be in the flat area and not up at one of the more complicated to get to campgrounds, correct?
And to avoid the logistical silliness of multiple group camping areas. (See China Hat thread)
WC, We certainly dont expect you to absorb the cost of the $75 per night. Any way to set up a PayPal link or some such so we can chip in easily?
Yep... lets make it Gray Pine, and keep it Gray Pine... I am sure there will be at least a few that will make it.
Yes, that is correct. I don't want folks having to drive all over hell and gone just to find us. If we don't get enough people to make it worthwhile to reserve the group campground we can always meet up at Davis Flat. I never, ever camp at Davis, as it is a big empty dirt lot with only a few tables on the outside edges. It's funky.
I figured a jar for donations would work
Gray Pine is the only reservable group campground there.
