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Hi! I moved to San Diego about 6 months ago and have been wanting to get into the dirt, and so I picked up a 2013 Beta 450 RS (street legal). I've only been offroad a couple times with a v-strom 650 I used to have and so I'm planning on just starting slow and trying to learn as I go. I currently haven't found anybody to ride with and it would be great to meet new people. I think first up on my list of places to go to is Corral Canyon since I hear so much about it. 😅 My other hobbies are going to the track with my ninja 400, camping in the desert, working on my motorcycles and taking care of my snake. A random couple fun facts is that I've swam with elephants and used to be on a navy submarine.

Another training school for ADV bikes is put on by our own Padu... the school is SOS, or SoCal Off Road School. @padu

Let's plan on going there as a group. I just can't separate easy from my stuff.

If you go to Ramona, then you have to hit up @Mr.JAJA he lives right there and knows the area very well. he would be the best point of contact for places to check out in that neck of the woods. He is also one of our resident engineering experts on all things motorcycles.

Yes, some real fun trails other than just up the mountain. 👍 The TT’s in Ramona are really fun too.

No, but yes for Q1 next year

This is good to know. I can arrange my time around that. Can’t do tomorrow but would love to link up soon. Glad you are back on a bike

Just for general information. We ride on Friday (tomorrow) early morning to beat the heat. Leaving my House at 8am. I will bail out around 10, to go for a PT appointment. Jim and some one will meet at my house. Let me know if you need my Adresse.

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xD !!! Omg, that all looks like so much fun. I gotta figure out where these places are!

Thanks for the suggestions of other trails to check out! I'm hoping to have the bike up and running this week. Maybe riding up to Ramona and checking out some off-road there. I'll let you know; maybe we can link up somewhere.

With Summer heat starting to the desert is not really an option. Otay is a good starting point. Black Mtn Truck trail is good but might be a little much if it’s your 1st time. Everyone is different though. There are some trails near Warner Springs. Cahuilla Raceway has a back section with some single track and a flow track. A very good spot to learn dealing with common obstacles you come across riding off road but you are not on a mountain side. I will be riding some dual sport within the next two weeks. Btw great bike choice!

Welcome Emily !

Welcome to the forum👍 What area of town are in? Otay mountain is another place to explore. Post up a day or three before you wanna ride, and I’m sure you’ll get some takers.

There are some easy fire road tracks in the east SD area, Ramona. Black canyon, Bolder creek. both can be connected with a lunch place like Descanso (Bolder creek) or Hideout (Black canyon).

You can have it as long as you need it to keep you riding

We also use Avenza when we ride. But mostly, I like to use Google Earth. I like to start dropping pins on routes and features as soon as I get home. It helps me with future routes and connecting the countryside.

Couldn't decide between fishing the Uintas or riding the Uintas when I woke up Saturday morning. Riding won out, and the clear bike choice was Bugz Beta for exploring a new area, especially with a long rocky climb to get to the trails I was interested in. The area war quite beautiful, maybe the prettiest spot in the Uintas. I rode around until I came to a spot where I decided to take a video. At that point, I realized that the clouds were gathering quickly, and not wanting to caught in a thunderstorm, it was literally the turning point for me. So I headed back down to the staging area. There must be other access points to the area. It's difficult to tell on Google Earth because the trails become obscured by the tree cover. I have some paper maps, but sometimes there are trails shown that don't exist, or none shown where I find a trail. At any rate, it's always an adventure up in the mountains, and I am sure I'll find a through route in that area soon.

Sure. First, let's be clear about one thing. Activating your Spot or Inreach, is not the same thing as activating SAR. To keep it simple, Inreach and Spot will activate a response to your emergency in the form of law enforcement and medical services, via GEOS (then forward to 911). Since Spot and Inreach know exactly where you are at, it has nothing to do with Search and Rescue (SAR). With that said, I suppose a Spot activation could turn into a SAR mission at some point if the first responders were unable to locate the person who activated their device. Now, as far as San Diego is concerned, and most other areas I'm aware of, a SAR mission will be initiated after several key members have assessed the situation and determined a SAR call-out is warranted. It will almost always start with a call to law enforcement. Usually in response to a missing person obviously (but there are other missions we handle). The reporting party will provide details to the responding officers/deputies. The deputies will advise a supervisor. The supervisor will determine if a call to the SAR coordinator is warranted. The SAR coordinator will then assess the information and make a final determination if there will be a SAR call-out, and if so, which resources. We have several different assignment groups. Not all will be sent all the time. Once SAR has been activated, team members will start showing up within about an hour anywhere in SD. The team members on the scene will start collecting pertinent information and establishing a place to set up a command post. Resources like the actual command post might take up to two hours to arrive. A supervisor will put together a search plan and start sending out teams. So, to summarize, let's say you are out in the desert and riding with a group of friends. One person goes missing. You get to the point where you need to call for help. Start by calling 911. The deputies or officers that arrive on the scene will assess the situation and make a decision on whether or not to start the SAR process. Anyone have any questions about San Diego Sheriff's Department SAR, let me know. BTW, we do have a dual sport response team, which I am a member of. I also am field certified for searches and a member of the motorized unit, which provides transportation to search teams in remote areas via 4x4 vehicles.

Wow that is a loaded question it really has a huge dependency on the SAR in the area where it is requested. Yucaipa back in the day has a very well staffed and organized volunteer SAR program and they were able to respond same day to events that took place in Big Bear and other areas I would say within a 100 mile radius of Yucaipa. In Death Valley it can be hours before you would get help to arrive because there are only a few rangers that patrol the area and depending on the service they might send out a ranger, or a sheriff it is hard to say. This is my personal account of the one time I uses the SPOS SOS feature. Wife went down and lost consciousness on the dirt road that takes you the back way into Ballarat from Panamint springs. I hit the button, and did a quick assessment, knowing where we were I decided since she came too but was disoriented I knew I had an hour at most to get her to the hospital that is in Ridgecrest. I was going to turn her into a backpack and take her there on my bike, leaving her's behind. At that moment a jeep shows up, I explain the situation and they agreed to take her to the pavement, in the amount of time it took them to get to pavement i rode back to panamint and got the truck and met them at the road, they waiting at most a few moments. On the drive too the hospital I got a call from Spot on the cell phone, they did not send any help because they were trying to get ahold of me first. That should tell you something. I told them I was already enroute and to stop any actions on their part, since they did not start anything nothing needed to be stopped. So it seems a lot depends on where, who gets the call etc.. This is where the 2 way communication ones have an advantage. As far as costs go, with the SPOT insurance if they issue the call then you are covered if someone else gets to you first it may not cover you, so it makes sense to have your own coverage somehow via an umbrella policy rather that depend on just the one for coverage. That's if your the type that spends a LOT of time in those kinds of stations that put you at high risk. Example

Thanks! Allied Gardens, SD kinda by Mission Trails. Does Otay have stuff other than the Truck trail that's so popular? I'll be sure to post when I plan out a ride! I've been in the middle of fixing up the Beta 450 I had bought as it was in rough condition and I just finished a carb rebuild but I kept finding other things along the way and here we are 1 month later. 😅