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[QUOTE="Nestrick, post: 798004, member: 45162"] [See photo: Left] Neal rode ahead of me through most of trail which was nearly all single track not accessible to ATVs, excepting the leg leading to Foreman Lake which appeared to be routinely driven on by Quads. Upon my arrival at the lake Neal had been there a while and I managed to capture in this frame exactly what I saw … man, this picture says it all … Neal is definitely at home on a bike on the trails in the middle of nowhere! [See photo: Middle] Here I am … finally riding the UP! I think my facial expression says it all! [See photo: Right] After completing the entire loop it was about 7:30 PM … too late to go anywhere else and too early to quit … so, Neal jumps on the CRF and rips the front leg of the trail again while I practice riding the KDX200 on a stretch of relatively easy stuff. Most of Foreman Lake is very different than anywhere I have been before … it is narrow and closely overgrown with ferns and grass in many areas as indicated in this photo … can you see the trail? Much of the trail is in the woods and the loamy soil is littered with rocks … however, not the round ones we are accustomed to in the LP … instead flat ones which lie together so closely that sometimes it almost feels like the trail is cobblestone! There are many rocky sections spread throughout the trail but all of them are relatively easy to ride over and were not a problem even for me … however, I did ride slowly and carefully in the more difficult sections … Neal basically blasted through all of this trail and he mentioned that he was surprised it was labeled at a Difficulty Grade 4 … he thought it was more like a 2. At the time I wouldn’t have agreed … but later, after riding Sandtown which is also a 4 … I guess I would have to agree with Neal … Foreman Lake is not that hard. Even for a Noob … this is a challenging but nice trail to ride. It was during these comparative trail discussions that Neal complained he couldn’t remember much about trails he had ridden in the past … he claimed to have indulged a bit too much in certain herbs during his formative years and therefore believed he had suffered considerable brain cell depletion … that was his story and he was stickin’ to it! Despite such claimed mental malady, Neal seemed to remember just about everything concerning the trails he had been on in the UP previously … even some of the confusing spots we ran into … it just took a while for me to coax the stuff out of him … he’s really more of a listener than a talker! By the way, almost forgot this! We got the bikes loaded and were ready to leave at about 8:30 PM … the mosquitoes are absolutely THICK … Neal climbs into the truck and I yell at him to step on the brake … just wanted to double check the trailer lights. Damn, now the left light is not working … I quickly grab a screwdriver and take the lens off … fiddle around with the bulb for several minutes … can’t find anything wrong … gees, if I don’t get this fixed soon I’m gonna run out of blood … finally, after about twenty tries and twenty failures, I give up and reassemble the tail light. About this time, Neal, who incidentally has been sitting in the mosquito-free environs of the truck cab announces through a slightly cracked window that he has the problem solved … turns out he bumped the turn signal while getting into the truck which causes the trailer tail light to not function when the brake is depressed and the motor isn’t running … “Is it working now?” he says. Man, if I hadn’t lost so much blood, I might have strangled him and left his body in the ferns to be sucked dry by twenty billion hungry mosquitoes, or perhaps, one hungry UP squirrel! [/QUOTE]
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