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you guys gotta come, 130+ miles!
different skill level riding, hardpack, dry, tons of wide open easy stuff
it's called Hungry Valley (aka. Gorman). Unfortunately it's a 2 hour drive...and when I got there, I forgot the key to the DR200, so I just rented:
CRF230...with a trials tire (thing hooks up really well!). that thing was PERFECT for Gorman - easy to start (e-start YEAH!), ran great, good torque, and it was geared nice and short so you can use all the power
Weather was perfect, and on the way up I saw at least 4 trailers full of quads and dirtbikes:
despite all the prep, I did, I still didn't leave until about 7:45, so I didn't get there until about 9:30.
Ken was already there with Dane's monstrous YZ426, so he was ready to go:
To start off, we did a quick warm up loop...but just following the trails wasn't a good idea...we ended up stumbling to get up this hill
look to the right of this pic - you can see the slope. To the naked eye, it's not bad, but you sure need some momentum when you're trying to hit the top in 1 go
did a couple of laps around the nearby trails...had some nice smooth/windy turns and elevation changes
First couple hours, we took the powerline trail...nice and easy, hardpacked and smooth:
this place is just beautiful...and riding through the hills with elevation changes is a blast
you just gotta watch for riders coming the other way (and btw, when they flash fingers - that's how many riders are behind them)
from there we connected to the cow trail...a little more narrow, more elevation changes, a little more technical, but view was awesome.
You were pretty much rolling over the tops of all the hills
then we went back, took a break, so I setup the tripod and did some donuts
we hit some jumps:
and rode some whoops:
crossed the street, and blasted down some fire roads:
stopped, and fine tuned our skills around in a mini-track:
anyone like hill climbs?
then started getting tired, and hit some sand:
and more sand:
and by now, after 6 hours of riding, the sand just beat us up...we were spent
So we rode back, and I went for one last loop, and climbed a REALLY big hill:
see the power lines in the back? they were BELOW me...just shows how tall the hill was!
so we rode back, chilled out for a couple hours, took in the nice weather, and headed home
it's worth a trip...CRF250x rental is about $170 for the day...CRF230 was $150...only quad is a 250ex, but imho, quads suck, 2 wheels too many!