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Some pictures of a trip over Veterans Weekend, they are roughly in order.

Base Camp:

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DAY ONE:

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Lots of fat trout here Mimi, you can see the ripples...

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Lunch Time!

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You suck, your riding partner sucks, and your bike sucks.

The pics however...are awesome!

:heh:

Great ride. Incredible scenery.

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One of my favorite areas to camp and fish. One of these days I'll have to take the bike along!

Looks like it was a great trip.

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Cold? Not so bad. In fact the hard part was to come, snow & sweat.

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We had no idea the north side of the mountain was so full of snow. The road cut into the mountain had filled in with 3 to 4 feet of snow, lucky the slope was not rocky or too steep or deep! Necessity forced us to go X-country until the road cleared up.

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XRs are HEAVY stuck in the snow, Phew!

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End of the road for Day One

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More to come soon....

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(Homer Simpson voice here)Mmmmm....trout fishing. :wub:

Nice write up and pix. :smile_anim::thumbsup_anim:

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Day Two:

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This little fellow was waiting to be road kill while sunning on the road in the morning, I decided to say hi and help em off the road.

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Back to business...

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Awesome pics...the weather looked perfect....would love to chat with you in the next couple of days :rolleyes: (gonna be following in your footsteps, leaving wed for the long weekend...based out of bishop...) hope it's nice and sunny like your weekend...

I know it is unpredictable and changes quickly, but at what elevation did you encounter legitimate snow depths.?........I don't mind a little snow, but the 3-4 feet looks intimidating..trying to map out some possible routes based on elevation....have lots of tracks.....

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That looks like a great ride. Were you in the Inyo Mtns. on this ?

The White Mtns 1st day, Long Valley Caldera / Glass Mtn 2nd day.

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Awesome pics...the weather looked perfect....would love to chat with you in the next couple of days :rolleyes: (gonna be following in your footsteps, leaving wed for the long weekend...based out of bishop...) hope it's nice and sunny like your weekend...

I know it is unpredictable and changes quickly, but at what elevation did you encounter legitimate snow depths.?........I don't mind a little snow, but the 3-4 feet looks intimidating..trying to map out some possible routes based on elevation....have lots of tracks.....

The worst of the snow was on the north side of the White Mtns ~9000 ft, I think after this weekend's storm many of the places I went on my trip will be buried for the winter. Owens Valley and the foothills will have plenty of clear riding for you tho. ;)

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Loading these picture chronologically is challenging me, here's the rest of the second day's events in random order...

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The end of day two...

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More to come...

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More.....? How could there be more?

Great area from the looks of it. My list grows every day......

Thx for posting this Sneeker.

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DAY THREE:

We were supposed to ride all day and leave the next but a couple of issues popped up:

1) One of our riders told his wife that we'd be gone 3 days and not 4 by mistake, he couldn't stay the extra day. Once resolved to ride a short day and then depart we readied ourselves to ride.

2) Our rider on the KTM powered up his bike, then a loud whistling sound and smoke started pouring from it, after 3 seconds something exploded like a firecracker, turned out that his CDI thingy grenaded. Many comments were made about Honda vs. KTM reliability. Good thing it happened at camp!

So only a short ride into the White Mtns, just a few pictures.

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Darn, left the trials bike at home...

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THE END of a perfect trip.

Pictures from the ride home.

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Next year Tonopah: NORTH.

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Great trip Sneaker! Well done man :drinks:

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I saw the garmin on the bars...any tracks to share?

If there are tracks I'd love to see em. I've ridden quite a bit up there but it seems you covered areas I haven't seen. Again, great pictures.

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Nice -very very nice. I need to look at your map sometime.

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Happy Thanksgiving all!

I'm in NorCal for the holiday, but when I get back home I'll post the tracks I have.

Thanks for your interest!

-David

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I love the Owens Valley, one of the most beautiful places on earth winter or summer, had the opportunity to ride there the last two summers. Fantastic pictures too. What camera did you use ?

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