Mission: Find new roads to ride on, check out school fire damage, and find camp grounds to camp at.
We found a gravel road to 22 mi. just out of town near a friend’s family farm. We unloaded there and drove a few miles 2-3 then there was a paved road we had to cross found a primitive road headed on that and
found a grade to go up and down, some new logging roads to fight the school canyon fire and it was a blast! Hubby was playing on the logging road and I got by him and got ahead of him, found an unmarked primitive camp ground in the Umatilla natl. forest. Turned around and went back to find Hubby he was hightailing it to catch up and we hooked up again not far from the camp ground it was where we had lunch. We found this just when we were ready for a break. It was a place with tables a fire pit, clean out door type potties, three camp sites that were empty. We took a short walk after we had our sandwiches, checked out the camp ground and headed back on the trail for more riding.
We found lots of places to ride and it was a blast! We got on top and asked some of the locals for directions we were looking to see the burn from the big 50,000 acre school fire last year and we saw plenty of that. They were out of maps at the store.
When we got on top a steep rough road I followed about ½ mi. behind hubby to avoid riding in dust all day. Then I saw him stopped beside the road. I saw a fox earlier in the day.
Hubby’s had close encounter with a cow elk near collision had his heart rate up he had to skid to a stop and stopped in the ditch. Another time a deer was running up the trail in front of him it was a pretty “technical” trail I just decided it was above my ability and I pulled over and waited for him to come back.
I was getting tired and knew I needed to save my energy for getting back to the drop off point where we were going to load up to head for home. My arm was tired from holding the thumb throttle on all day.
After driving around getting separated and then finding each other again earlier in the day we are thinking about some of our options!
Dear son said one of his friends had G.P.S. [Global Positioning Service device] put on his bike, we asked directions from another couple on 4-wheelers and they mentioned gps too. So I guess we will check in to that, something to conisder.
We put a ball on the hitch of my 4-wheeler for pulling a trailer with our camping gear. We are getting the camping bug again now.
On the fourth we cleaned up the machines and put on a wire basket
We also cut a board to fit on the bottom of the wire basket this is for haul gear and supplies for trips and camp outs on my machine,
the basket was on the front of the farm four wheeler. Hubby knocked off a mirror on his getting of so he got that reattached.
Today we are getting the ATV’s read for the next ride have the ice chests all cleaned up, the storage compartments cleaned out. We removed the food, and I’m getting the towels and stuff we will need for the next trip read and I’m going to pack book bags with them and get them partially ready to go with sunscreen and a few other items I use. One more weekend and both machines will be ready for a service and we will need to take them in to the shop for that.
Mission accomplished! We saw lots of fire damage from the School canyon fire last year, and found several places to camp and camp grounds, some fishing spots too. And enough roads to keep us busy for about the next five years exploring!
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