"IT TAKES A VILLIAGE TO RIDE A DIRT BIKE"- HILLARY CLINTON 1994

 

Finally made it to Lime Creek this week (Thursday). Originally tried Tuesday but were rained out. It was a pretty steady rain on Tuesday. After waiting around & driving into Fairfield for burger it still wasn’t clearing up in the mountains, so we called it. When were unloading the bikes on Thursday I REALIZED I FORGOT MY BOOTS !!!!!! Fortunately David was thinking and had me call my oldest, Mitch. Mitch brought my boots and met us at the PILOT truck stop in Mountain Home. We lost a couple of hours but we eventually got on the bikes. I think we accomplished a GREEN SCORE pretty close to zero. Between the 2 days of driving we racked up 400 miles for 45 miles of trail riding. Plus we ate burgers both days and saw lots of sheep. MAKES ME PROUD !

 

Cattle drive on HWY 20. They were escorted by “COPS”-Citizens on Patrol -average age looked to be ~85. Hand signals for stop & were the same.

 

Bridge over Lime Creek on Sheep Drive Trail

End of Sheep Drive Trail ???????? We may have lost the official trail in a burn area.

President Trail- The rain rolled in ~ 10 minutes after this photo. All the way down Prez we had a light rain. Because of the rain we decided not to do the North Fork Trail. There were some mud holes approaching the Middle Fork but the creek crossing itself wasn’t bad. David was almost across the South Fork when he bobbled and dropped his bike. (It was raining so no pics!) It took about 15-20 minutes to dewater the bike & with the spark plug wire attached it fired in a few kicks.

 

Back at the corrals. It looked like the real storm was just starting to roll into the mountains. We made the right call not to extend the ride & had good timing on the creek crossings.