WARM SPRINGS 9/18/ 2011

 

RIDERS – DAVID , GORDON, JON, TIM , JOHN

LOOP – 64 MILES

DAVID  RIDING UP DOLLARHIDE RIDGE

 

TAKING IN THE SIGHTS ON DOLLARHIDE  RIDGE

STOP ALONG WARM SPRINGS

CONNECTOR BETWEEN RED WARRIOR AND WARFIELD.

LUNCH ALONG MIDDLE FORK WARM SPRINGS

THE “SOB’S TAKE IT TO” EAGLES NEST - 9/10/2011

 

Jon and I rode Eagle’s Nest Saturday. Jon was my chaser. He did a damn good job for his 1st ride of the  year.

Loop ~ 46 miles.

The morning was smoky but a bit better than Donnelly or McCall. Jon said the valley was much worst.

We got on the trail ~ 10:30. ( Barry didn’t see or here us so I’m not sure it counted .)

About 5 miles into the ride I couldn’t keep up with Jon or stay on the trail. Finally noticed I had a rear flat.

I got the tire off and tube out but couldn’t find the puncture. Jon came back to find me. At first he couldn’t find it either. Tried water , no luck. Then pumped up the tube and we could hear and feel the leak, a very small prick !

 

 

Eagle’s Nest after the flat.

Scare crow to keep the greenies off the trail.

THE DUST UP

We went past the Gold Fork Rocks to Dollar Ridge Trail.

On the way down I took another spill for no reason then a hundred yards latter Jon saw that I had flat again. We were about half way down the switch backs with no good place to work on the flat. We used Jon’s MTB pump to inflate the tube so I could get to the bottom , you can’t ride a trials tire flat the sidewalls are to soft. It was another slow leak and I made it down & across the creek.

While I was replacing the tube Jon found another small leak in the tube I pulled out. We checked the tire again but still didn’t feel any thing. Maybe the tube is worn out ,  it has close to 1500 miles on it.

Climb up to Gold Fork LO

Jon after his climb up to the look out. The climb is a bike boiler and it’s the easy way up from the Gold Fork River.

TREE HUGGING

CLIMATE CLINIC 9/4/2011–WARM SPRINGS TRAIL SYSTEM SAWTOOTH NF

AFTER A DIRT BIKE HIATUS SINCE THE SPODE FEST, DAVID AND I SETTLED ON WARM SPRINGS (KETCHUM).

LOOP ~ 50 MILES.

GOOD RIDE, SURPRISINGLY EMPTY FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND. NO OTHER DIRT BIKERS AND JUST TWO GROUPS OF MOUNTAIN BIKERS. HAD A BIT OF SMOKE FROM THE FIRES . NOT BAD JUST A HAZE. RODE A NEW SECTION OF TRAIL THAT FOR SOME REASON WE HAVE BEEN BYPASSING.

DOLLAR HIDE RIDGE TO MEADOW CREEK

POISON FLATS TO DEER CREEK

 

GETTING SOME DIRECTIONS FROM A MOUNTAIN BIKER. SAID THEY SAW 3 WOLVES A FEW MILES BACK DOWN THE TRAIL.

 

NORTH FORK DEER CREEK TO WARFIELD

SADDLE ON WARFIELD

WARFIELD

MIDDLE FORK WARM SPRINGS

DAVID ALWAYS CHATS WITH THE MOUNTAIN BIKERS ,PART OF HIS TRAIL AMBASSADOR PROGRAM.