frostkerry

That is the most beautiful area I know of, I'm definately riding this one. Who else is going and how are you getting from SD to WA?

Fun ride gents, thanks! Great shot of MooPoo Pond kkug.

Great Writeup 2Wheels! I'm headed to Bass Lake for week of camp/ride/relaxation next week. This is good information!

Greydog, If it's OK with you I'd like to put my brother (64 retired last Thursday) in touch with you. He lives in AZ but keeps a KLR with side car at my place in Chula Vista. He visits often and is always ready for 3-wheel do-able dirt rides. Just a thought...

A one-day ride to Mike's would be rushed in my opinion also, although I guess it could be done. Tecate to Laguna Hanson, on the other hand, can be done in less than 2 hours at an easy pace. Tecate to La Rumorosa on the free road is 37 miles and it can easily be done at about 55 MPH. From La Rumorosa to Laguna Hanson is 35 miles on the dirt road. That road can be ridden at 30 MPH at an easy pace. Does this sound like an easy day ride? It is... Why not just post it as an open-invitation day ride with a meet time and place where anyone can show up? Things can go wrong. - One round of ammunition can get you hard time in Mexico. - What can a "personal use" item get you in Mexico? Don't know, don't want to find out the hard way. Guilt by association. I'd rather not be in a group where someone gets popped for breaking a foreign country's laws. On the open-invitation rides, we sometimes get people who've never ridden a motorcycle off pavement. Everyone was new at one time or another, but a foreign country isn't the place to be learning. If, and this is a big if, Laguna Hanson were in the States, I'd post it as a noob introductory ride. Back in the old ride write ups, there's a thread about a ride where someone slid on a dirt road and broke his leg. He'd been riding motorcycles for a long time, but it was his first time off pavement. Had this happened in Mexico, even a short distance from the border, the extraction would have been more difficult. There was another ride where someone didn't bring enough water. Had it happened in Mexico, the result could have been worse. An injury plus lack of water a long way from help could turn into a fatality. So what's my point? It's best to ride in Mexico with someone you know and have ridden with before. But if you're riding with someone for the first time, it's better to have things go wrong on a short ride than on a long ride several days from the United States. Huh? I'm not certain if theres an invitation hidden in there and given the above criteria, I'm not certain I'm qualified to ride in Mexico... but I wanna. WTH, a one-day out and back sounds like a good way to begin again and I think I remember being able to ride offroad. I'm 50, relatively ppfffttt, got the right gear, and looking for a/some considerate soul(s) to lead the way. So whens the next jaunt South and what else do you need to know...?