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I led a club overnight ride for noobs a few years ago to Santa Rosa (Tom, weren't you on it?). Everyone had a blast. And quite a few learned some valuable lessons on setup, gear, luggage, etc. One guy had a yard sale of gear, sorry can't remember who it was, for about a mile down a trail because he tied everything down with bungee cords. Bungee cords don't work for what we do. We fixed him up and got back on the road and everyone had a laugh over it. God, who was it??? Anyway, these types of rides are an excellent resource for noobs to learn. I've ridden thousand and thousand of miles off road in remote areas camping off my bike and am constantly learning and changing things up. I think I have three full sets of bags, tents, gear, etc, that I went through before I got a pretty good grasp on the way I wanted to do it. Here's a pic from the top of Santa Rosa

I'm very interested in this.

The small (biggest I'll do!!) double sequence. 1st lap rolled it, jumped it on every lap after.

Trying to remain calm in good form. Sequence is good for self training study

@350thumper I want to Thank You for the ride. I learned a lot about riding in sand, it’s not for the timid and it takes a lot of skill to be successful at it. You constantly checked behind to make sure I was still there and your encouragement after I was successful going through an obstacle was excellent. You were/are a great guide…stopping at difficult points to discuss how to pick the best line through an obstacle – pointing out the plus and minus of each line. That alone was worth the price of admission! But best of all…in the post, you didn’t even mention that I had a “get off” in the first 100 yards of the leaving the pavement (LOL). Didn’t have any more the rest of the day – but I can’t count how many times I came close the hitting the sand. That’s one pair of shorts I have to throw away… As a new person to ADV riding, I need a ton more work…on both soft and hard pack. Darren, Thank You for helping me yesterday!!! @Pokey151 we'll see ya soon - I'll tell you about my trip north. Let me know when you want to get a cold one

As expected the start of the first lap was dusty I even stopped at the first rocky uphill with zero viz until the dust settled. Very soon after all was fine everyone spread out and there was never another case of blinding dust. The temp was good, not too hot and for this guy 4 laps was quite enough, pros got in 5 but I only got lapped by a few guys. every other lap that first rocky climb went super smooth. Race Story 1) I did spot a pro line on the back side of the course with dirt tracks going over some big rocks but I never looked back up at it from the normal curve around the rocks trail . On the last lap I hit it and my arse was in my mouth, flat up the ramp, a 2-3 foot gap to another flat top up on top then a 6' straight drop off the back to the trail almost perpendicular to the trail heading to the left. Not much downhill slope, it was a hard landing and a good save. And I kind of cursed myself , because I did risk too much on that one without a proper spotting first. Race Story 2) ZR/DP did this event at the same location a few years back and my wife and neighbors came to watch, I pretty much spoded the mini endurocross section in the spectators area, just rolling all the obstacles. Since then my wife has still called me out on that. So this time with none of my people watching I doubled the double, jumped all the way over the buried car and hit the tires and carried over perfectly......now I need some video or pictures to redeem myself. I will get some photos up for fun and one of our local young guys did run his go pro helmet cam.

Locally promoted by ZR Promotions. Sponsored by DP Racing. I raced the 60+ open class for the win, competition was light, even the 50 class was small. But I figured I'm 61 and have earned the age. So I come away with another cool Lower California racing plaque for my efforts