Saturday Ride

[carguy 1]

It was a small ride. Since we lost all of the post from January to now I will writeup this one.

Although it is getting warm in the East County, it is not unbearable. Sometimes you just need to ride. There are so many trails out here.

Looked like me Kawee and Michael were the only ones interested.

We met at the Golden Acorn and waited for possable riders. No takers, so we went north through the reservation towards McCain Valley. There are a ton of trails in McCain's. On weekends there are many riders as well and caution is needed. after checking out McCain we headed to the "Phantom trail".

Well not "the phantom trail", the real trail goes from the top of the mountain to the desert floor at S-2. We went down the old wagon trail from In KO Pah to Mountain Spring. It is a neat trail and you will know it when you find it.

It gives the feeling of being out in the middle of nowhere, I guess it is.

The Bighorn Sheep must live in the area and do blend well. He is in the bottom right of this picture. I had to zoom in they did not want us close.

There were about 6 in this herd.

We went down to the spring and saw a trail back up steeper and Michael led us up it. Probally not a trail for newbies, or/ a new proving ground? It circled back to the top. A good loop.

Since we were back on the top we decieded to explore Table Mtn.

Another rocky Volcanic plateau.

We found some very steep rocky climbs that were difficult to negotiate

back to Kawee's for a cold one then home.

It was a good short summer ride in the East County.

[Kaw'ee 10]

Since john led this ride and I rode sweep, for the whole two guys ahead of me. I finally got to get a bunch of good shots with riders and bikes in them, not just vista's and pics of my bike all alone on a dirt road..

The Saturday's ride proved to be one of my most challenging rides to date. should have know when a S.D.A.R. rider mikeyB ( michael ) shows up with a full size KTM in the back of a subaru with a 24 inch bed . and yes, that's his patten ..

We first hit dirt about 5 miles from the casino onto this injun land border fence line, that leeds into the back side of mc cains valley.

Which punches out at the far end of mc cain road.and a short ride down to cottonwood campground

Wanting to give mikeyB the full tour since hes never been out here, we toured the campgrounds

Heading out we stopped at both vista view lookouts, and stopped at the ' off road only ' area, which i would not recommend on the weekends.

So off to rockier pastures we went,, heres my first 55 mph action shot ever..

Off into north in-ko-pahs we rode,looking for the trail john found last wednesday.with tails of bigass sheep.

Then down into rocky road heaven .no need for motors on this downhill canyon. and we wanted to surprise the bighorn sheep if they were still hanging around anyway.

Heres a great shot of my glove !!! but its also pointing at one of the bigass sheep.

As beautiful as she was, shes still no match to fluffy.

Onward and downward we went till we crested the view of the freeway below,

After reaching the bottom and getting ready to jump back on the freeway ,mikeyB saw a road that headed back up the other side and wanted to at least check it out.. well of course it got steeper,and rockier,and steeper, and rockier, till there was no sense trying to stop on it and turn around, so step'in and fetch'in we went,.and yes, fear will make you a better rider,!!! .lucky for us, we all scaled it without a crash an burn.so we stopped at the top and passed around the toilet paper around.. thanks mikeyb !!! . I was going to buy new shorts this week anyway.

Well feeling like true adventures now, we headed out to find ' Tabletop '

Yep, another rock infested sharp lava rock expedition, ,my personal favorite.

Michael liked it so much he ran back down and chased john back up.

But once there the view from ' Tabletop ' was worth the days ride.

yes in deed............... " ANOTHER GREAT RIDE ".................you should have went !!!

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[sandiegoland 0]

Nice write-up guys!!