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[QUOTE="YZMAN400, post: 1081350, member: 49098"] [B]Day 3 6-28-06[/B] 6:30am Up and at them…..Well up a least. It’s starting to get harder and harder to get up in the morning. But thanks for our loudmouth redneck neighbor rolling in at 6:00am as loud as he could be we were up. 8:30am Packed up and moving. Once again I tried to get Tim to take point for the morning shift for the Wolverine section of Mccct (watere and spider web patrol), but he gave me some line about not knowing the trail, so I led. I’ve rode this section of trail last year, Wonderful stuff. I had a blast in there. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/noquads1.jpg] > No quads <[/url] We all seemed to be doing pretty good thru there and in no time we were at Indian River. Well most of us were anyways. Rudy had to transfer some more gas to Jasons bike. Even before we got to Wolverine Tue night I knew Jason was going to be low on gas since the last fill up was at Kalkaska. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rudy2.jpg] >Rudy coming into Indian River<[/url] 10:30am Indian River. While I waited for the others to show up I took a quick peak down the road to see what was down there in terms of food and gas. As soon as the crew showed up we headed down the road to a Napa store so Rudy and Rick could pick up some parts. Rudy needed some Dielectric grease for his GPS battery’s (It kept on shutting off) and Rick needed a replacement taillight bulb and a new bolt for his hand guard that was mangled in Tuesday’s crash. The parts guy was funny. In a bland expressionless kind of way. Kinda reminded me of Mike at Boston Motors….You west side’rs will know what I mean. So with parts acquired we headed down the road for food. 1st place I came across was Michaels looked like a nice place so in we go. Really nice restaurant, I recommend this place to anyone in the area. Nice friendly atmosphere. And once again we got plenty of strange looks. As we walked in the owner said smoking is at-a-way…..no smoking is at-a-way….and chewing is in the middle. Good food and plenty of it, 1st real sit down breakfast since we started. Man that coffee was good. Waitress even brought out a few big pitchers of water so we could full out camelbacks. The owner wandered over and chatted with us for a while. He is an ex cop. Drove truck for a while but a back injury forced him to quit (he has drop foot and other assorted back related pains). Now he runs the restaurant, great guy. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/mothers2.jpg] >Micheals <[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/mothers3.jpg] >group in front if Micheals <[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/mothers1.jpg] >Micheal himself<[/url] Next was gas and more lotto buying people. Rudy had noticed the night before that his bike was down on oil. At the gas station he found the source of the problem. He had just had some pretty major engine work done previous to the ride. Well the mechanic forgot to fold the lock washer over on his countershaft sprocket nut. The nut had worked loose and was right up against the sprocket guard. My guess is that the sprocket has moved outward and the seal was pushed out wit it causing an oil leak. I got out the tools and had the sprocket back in place and the tightened with the washer folded over this time. This seemed to fix the oil leak problem. I am guessing that tightening the sprocket pushed the seal back in place. Back on the trail, well road anyways. There is a lot of road as you head east across the state, but most of it is dirt. I missed a turn in here. I was trying to find the correct tracklog on the GPS to follow and in the process it locked up on me and had to be restarted. It did that twice on me. And I blame that on the missed turn, at least that’s what I told the team. From 33 on to the Red Bridge trail is an interesting piece of 2-track. Kinda rutted out and wet. Took a little thought as you headed thru there to pick your lines, pretty fun. We didn’t get to run any of the Red Bridge trail as the Mccct headed south from there. But the map says its ORV so how good can it be. South to Tower, I hoped we could get some gas here. We weren’t that low on gas but you never know how far its going to be to gas so it’s a good idea to top off when you can. The only station had nothing but 87 octane so we passed and pushed on south. Well we went south after finding the correct road (My GPS didn’t tell me were to turn here for some reason) We headed south on the roads then the trail took a jog to the west and then south on a 2-track. This section did not look very promising. It was really wet and overgrown. It looked like fun, but not on an overloaded bike. A quick meeting determined that we did not want to try this section. So we backtracked and picked up the trail down the road a little bit after this section on Tucker road. A little farther south the trail finally gets off the paved roads and into the woods again. This section was mostly 2-track. There was one turn in there that was mis-marked. The arrow said to go left but the trail went straight. We patched the sign up best as we could and headed off. As I said this section down to Atlanta was mostly 2-track but there was some awesome little sections of trail intermixed in here. Lots of fun. 2:30pm Atlanta. We finally made the top of Atlanta. Weather was starting to look a little grim again. We took a quick break here then headed back onto the trail. This trail was nothing but woops woops woops. Not exactly fun on an overloaded bike. After a handful of miles we decided to take a detour to the west and get some gas. Jason was running a little low again. That and we were all getting a little tired of the woop beating. 4:00pm At the gas station word had it that there was a BIG storm rolling thru. We decided to hole up at the El-Bow for some food. Nice little bar. I hear that some of the ROS crowd were here watching the SX final at Vegas this spring. You can definitely tell they cater to the sled crowd. We watched the weather channel in here as we ate but couldn’t get much of a weather report. So with no weather info other than a hand out the door, we threw on the rain gear and hit the roads. None of us were ready to for the beating that the rest of Atlanta was going to give us, so we bypassed the rest of the loop and picked up the Mccct to the south near country road 624. This was a fun little section. Mostly 2-track but it had personality. Oh yea... we got wet. It pored on us. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/theelbow.jpg] >El-Bow<[/url] 5:30pm We made Atlanta. We decided to head into town to find a parts store. Jason needed some tubing to replace his gas cap hose that went AWOL and was in the process of leaking gas in his crotch. It was here that I started to conjure up a small side trip. I asked the parts guy if he knew a guy named Mike that rides KTM motorcycles. Has a fairly large spread with trails a plenty and is right off the motorcycle trail. He knew exactly the place, and pointed it out on my map. While waiting outside for Jason some local across the street must have been trying to impress us as he was riding his dirtbike around the house. No shirt of helmet as memory serves me correct. 6:00pm Back on the roads we made it over to KTMikes house at around 6:00pm. I have never been there but knew I had the right place when I seen the grass track in the yard. We pulled up to the garage and I seen his wife out in the yard playing with the dog. I wandered over and asked if some Mike fella lived here and rides KTM motorcycles. She confirmed that I had the right place. A few quick introductions were made. Shelia ( I think that was her name, I am so bad with names) told us that Mike would be home in about ½ hour and would be thrilled to see us. But unfortunately we couldn’t stay that long. We wanted to try and hit the bottom of Mio yet that night. So we took a picture and were off again. Another reason I had wanted to stop at Mike’s house is that the rear brake pads on Jason’s Brg were getting thin. I was thinking that maybe Mike would have a set that we could buy off of him since KTM and Husaberg pads are the same. But it turns out we didn’t hook up. Oh well. We managed. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/sndmn2/Drummond05008-1.jpg] >Mikes house<[/url] South of Mikes house is some cool trail on the way down to Mio Not real tight trail but fun. Due to all the rain we have had there was a lot of erosion here making the trails really interesting? I had a lot of fun in here picking my way thru this. Some sections of sand were so saturated with water that you had to just flog the bike to make any forward progress. Pretty cool. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/jasonandthesandhill.jpg] >Jason on powerlines<[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/rootytrail.jpg] > Rooty hill climb <[/url] 7:00pm Top of Mio. We were now in Jasons romping grounds. He informed us that the west side of Mio was nothing but woops. This is were the Mccct ran. But the east side was much better. So the east side it was going to be. A quick Monster energy drink and a powergel pack and I was ready to go. Jason was right. There is some nice trail in here. But it was slow going. I quickly realized that we weren’t going to make the bottom of Mio running like this. 8:00pm Tree strike. I was having fun in here and running a little too fast probably. I smashed my shoulder into a tree. Ummm it hurt pretty good. Nothing broken but it hurt. Hurt enough to make me not want to ride anymore. Plus looking at the maps told me based on how far we had just gone that we weren’t going to make camp before dark unless we jumped out here, Jason confirmed this too. So we headed west and south to find camp. Muskrat Lake was our destination. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/treestrike.jpg] >ouchy <[/url] 8:30pm We hit camp and started talking food and gas. Jason knew the area so we unloaded some of our gear here at some nice older lady’s campsite and hit the road. 9:00pm Mio was a little farther than we thought it would be but we got there. A quick dinner at McDonalds and down the road to gas and more lotto buyers. It was getting dark now and the light on my Honda is pitiful. Tim and I hit the road back to camp. 10:00pm Camp. We set up camp. I was told to move farther away because of my snoring….Whatever…lol. They must have been doing some tree trimming cause there was firewood a plenty here. We siphoned some gas out of Ricks bike using a ziplock baggy and in no time we had a campfire. Instead of roasting marshmallows we had sox, gloves, and boot liners roasting on sticks all around the fire. [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/doncamp1.jpg] >home for the week<[/url] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/CRF250X/MCCCT%20Safari/muscratlakecamp1.jpg] >Group shot at camp<[/url] 11:30pm Sleep. Total mileage for the day was about 180. To be continued……….. [/QUOTE]
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