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[QUOTE="scar tissue, post: 1389486, member: 21098"] Here's a few pics and short report. The yellow bike coming down is David Gill on the red trail coming back from 5 miles of hell. We rode up that on the way out. A lot of this trail was like this, very steep w lots of rock ledges to climb. Definitely the hardest day. The red bike going up the rocks was Eel on 5 miles Miles of hell. Then we have Eel going down a step down rock section on behind the rocks (day 3) We rode for 4 days. 6+ hours each day. Day four was the hardest by far, but all were enjoyable. We had a mix of slick rock, deep sand washes, lots of water and waterfalls to climb and of course beautiful country side. I rather enjoyed day 1, as we just randomly explored and wandered through canyons and sand dunes etc. It was a nice warm up for what was to come. Day 2 we did some long trail work, combined with some thick over growth down by the Green river. (reminded me of Gilligans Island from Terrys old rides.) We followed that up with a narrow high sided canyon ascent. Completed with a flowing stream and several rock waterfalls to climb up. Day 3. Into Moab. Ate at the Moab Dinner(a tradition for John) then headed off down the trial. We had a pretty mellow but fun start (20miles or so) through some jeep trails and several stream crossings. Then turned into behind the rocks. this was a nasty little jeep eating trail. (lots of broken 4x4s along the way.) It was much easier on the dirt bikes although there were several tight and consecutive 2-4 ft rock drop offs. I sheared off 1/2 a foot peg trying to climb a granite slab. Rode the rest of day 3 and 4 on the footpeg stump. Day 4. 5 MOH What was expected to be a short 6 mile ride to the trail head, turned out to be a brutal 20 mile trek from where we started. tough uphills, scary downhills. Often having to stop and question how to approach the obstacle. When we reached 5 MOH, three of us rode in, Eel, Placelast and Myself. After some amazing balancing acts and several bike dumps did we complete our ride. The whole time I was realizing we had to ride back. (its not a loop) Its a lot easier to drop off a vertical 4 ft rock than climb up it. In the end we all made it, a bit worse for wear and pretty exhausted. We took Johns ALT trail back, which was more high speed and less tech. It was pretty cold, jackets were a must day 1 and 2. Though day 4 was warm- Too warm for how hard we were working. John gill was an excellent tour guide and we had phenomenal terrain. Each night we did the campfire and cookout thing. We all ate well, steaks and BBQ chicken every day. The bikes held up well, despite being tossed into the rocks several times. Amazingly, we only had 1 flat (twice) due to tube install error. I broke off half a foot peg, ruptured both fork seals after a wet clay mud hole, bent a clutch level and cracked a rad shroud. Others had other items, headlight, fender, throttle etc. oh yeah and no one has any knobs left on the tires. :cool: John H. had a sweet new FI 390 Husaberg to bang around. That bike looked and ran great. The rest of us were on 2smokers. An awesome trip and well worth it. I look forward to Oregon next year, Eric. [/QUOTE]
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