• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

The Chick And The Dame Ride Kennedy Meadows

Cool report, thank you very much ladies :applause:
Did you girls leave poor old Eric to guard the fire ? :lol:

This gets the gold right here;

Dirtdame;108330 said:
....I don't mind making sacrifices as long as I'm allowed to complain about them.
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Muddy Waters;108350 said:
Cool report, thank you very much ladies :applause:
Did you girls leave poor old Eric to guard the fire ? :lol:



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Yeah, Eric hung around camp nursing his broken shoulder, but he took my 610 out both days and explored the dirt roads in the area...

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WoodsChick
 
WOW****************************************! Well you've outdone yourselves again**************************************** What a great report!!! The scenery is BREATH TAKING****************************************!! But I have to know what kind of cameras your using, the pics are so clear I could smell the two stroke smoke****************************************
 
Oops, didn’t realize he’s on the injured list, wish him well
Brave man, riding the “tanker” with a broken shoulder :D

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Great report and beautiful pictures! :thumbsup: Looks like it's extra green and has more water than usual this year, due to the heavy snowpack over the winter. I'm headed up there in a few weeks myself. I hope the mosquitos are gone by then, because they absolutely love me. :D
 
jckid;108354 said:
Great report and beautiful pictures! :thumbsup: Looks like it's extra green and has more water than usual this year, due to the heavy snowpack over the winter. I'm headed up there in a few weeks myself. I hope the mosquitos are gone by then, because they absolutely love me. :D
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The mosquitoes were around two years ago when it rained every day of our trip in July, and they were around last August when it was dry as a bone. Take plenty of OFF, no matter what.:busted:
 
You Gals have put together a great ride report. Lovely photos, thank you very much for the effort. I always look forward to your reports, there are more photos and interesting snippets etc.
 
Another great travelogue. Felt like I was there. Thanks for letting us southerners live vicariously through your stories and pics. Looking forward to more ride reports.
 
Stroker Ace;108352 said:
WOW****************************************! Well you've outdone yourselves again**************************************** What a great report!!! The scenery is BREATH TAKING****************************************!! But I have to know what kind of cameras your using, the pics are so clear I could smell the two stroke smoke****************************************
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My Spidey senses tell me WoodsChick uses a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS, and DirtDame uses a Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS. Well, it's either my Spidey senses, or the EXIF info in the pics. :)
 
AndrewS;108386 said:
My Spidey senses tell me WoodsChick uses a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS, and DirtDame uses a Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS. Well, it's either my Spidey senses, or the EXIF info in the pics. :)
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Wow man.. You're getting that info from looking at the pictures????
 
AndrewS;108386 said:
My Spidey senses tell me WoodsChick uses a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS, and DirtDame uses a Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS. Well, it's either my Spidey senses, or the EXIF info in the pics. :)
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:lol: You're close. Eric uses the Canon and I use a Panasonic (Lumix) DMC-ZS3 :)




WoodsChick
 
Muddy Waters;108353 said:
Oops, didn’t realize he’s on the injured list, wish him well
Brave man, riding the “tanker” with a broken shoulder :D

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Thanks, Muddy :) He's almost all healed up and is going back to work on Monday.

jckid;108354 said:
Great report and beautiful pictures! :thumbsup: Looks like it's extra green and has more water than usual this year, due to the heavy snowpack over the winter. I'm headed up there in a few weeks myself. I hope the mosquitos are gone by then, because they absolutely love me. :D
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You are absolutely right. There was water in every meadow and every little creek crossing and gully. We would get swarmed with mosquitoes sometimes when we would stop on the trail. They were even out early in the morning. We did get swarmed by a raging horde of lady bugs, though, and that was ultra-cool :thumbsup: I wouldn't bet on the bugs being gone in a couple weeks.

Dirtdame;108355 said:
The mosquitoes were around two years ago when it rained every day of our trip in July, and they were around last August when it was dry as a bone. Take plenty of OFF, no matter what.:busted:
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Yup...good advice :thumbsup:

ghte;108359 said:
You Gals have put together a great ride report. Lovely photos, thank you very much for the effort. I always look forward to your reports, there are more photos and interesting snippets etc.
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Thanks! It was fun to do :)

jfoulkrod;108372 said:
Another great travelogue. Felt like I was there. Thanks for letting us southerners live vicariously through your stories and pics. Looking forward to more ride reports.
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I'm sure there will be lots more in the future! I really enjoy doing ride reports and taking photos.




WoodsChick
 
wallybean;108319 said:
Nice report Woodschick....Meadowchick? Cool pics and looks like a great place to ride.

Walt
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:lol: I love the meadows there, it's such a beautiful place to be. Eric and I once did a dualsport ride there, me on my KTM 450 and him on my SV650 and we had just as good of a time as I did on the single track. I particularly enjoyed watching Eric ride the SV on the Monache Jeep Road :D

Motosportz;108377 said:
Brilliant stuff, love it. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Thanks, Kelly! That really means something coming from you, Mr. I-Get-To-Ride-Some-Of-The-Most-Beautiful-Trails-In-The-World :)

CKPC;108380 said:
Great shots, Thx for sharing!
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Thanks, CKPC. I think it's safe to say that we both had a good time putting it together:)

Blazes;108424 said:
Awesome :thumbsup: Great to see what the other side of the world looks like from here---:applause:
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I really enjoy seeing where other people get to ride, as a lot of it is really different from what we have at home. So when is your next ride report going to be posted?? :lol:




WoodsChick
 
Our 2nd day's ride was to be shorter since we both wanted to splash around in the river afterwards...
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We started off down the Mahogany Trail...
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DirtDame coming down the switchbacks...
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We headed up to the Bald Mt. Lookout for a nice view of the Dome Land Wilderness, a fantastic landscape of solid granite formations...
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The hike up to the actual lookout at 9400' is very grueling in gear so we opted for the view from this wide spot in the road...
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Can you see the teeny tiny lookout on top?
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Back down to Mahogany Trail to Rattlesnake Trail...
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And out to Bonita Meadow...
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What a lovely view, eh? :D
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Speaking of lovely views, this meadow on Beach Trail was spectacular...
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The trails out on the western side tend to get ridden less because they're harder to get to and they tend to be a bit more technical...
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Here she comes down the rocky trail...
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WoodsChick
 
Nice little waterfall near the trail...
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Water water everywhere...
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Corral Meadow...
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We got back on Mahogany and headed back to camp. This outcropping has always been a tad scary for me, as the "tink" of footpeg hitting rock has put me over the side before on several trails, but DirtDame seemed to make it through with no drama...
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We made it back after 40 fun miles and had plenty of time to head on down to the Kern River for some soaking. I was avoiding wine the entire time since the altitude can make me feel crappy and alcohol makes it worse, but since there would be no more riding I helped Eric drain the boda bag of a scrumptious bottle of 7 Deadly Zins :D We had a great time splashing and talking and soaking up the very warm late afternoon sun. The long night sitting by the campfire capped off a very fun and relaxing 4 day holiday. I think we all had a great time. Thanks for coming along with us :thumbsup:




WoodsChick
 
Wow, some truly breathtaking shots. Thanks for posting, it's giving me the wanderlust.

Glad that Eric's on the mend too. :)
 
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