A ride to Remember

On the El Oso road you can ride gravel and gain about three thousand feet in 11 miles.  When you get to the top you are in for an extremely scenic ride. You can see 75 miles in every direction.  Kadizzle enjoyed the warmest day on record heading down the road in the pines and huge bolders that top the mountain.

The goal was to find a trail head deep in the forest.  The trail crew needs a way to go from the top down to clear the trail. Step one is find the trail.  As ususal when going into new territory Kadizzle had trepedations.  Getting stuck way back in nowhere could mean someone would have to got to great trouble to rescue him.

As Kadizzle went deeper into the unknown he took a break.  Earlier he had passed a group of guys his age exploring on 4 wheelers.  It seemed they were following him on the same trail.  They emerged into the little stopping point and everyone had lunch.  It turned out to be a bunch of retired crop dusters and helicopter guys.  Strangely one of them knew a man in Hazen which is a friend of Kadizzles.  

No one knew how bad the trail ahead might be.  Kadizzle explored ahead and figured he better stop. It was a good decision, had he gone on it would have been a disater. One of the four wheelers agreed to ride Kadizzle to the end of the trail.  

After that little excursion the whole group turned back.  At the last intersection the four wheelers decided to take a steep downhill ride.  As it turned out Kadizzele made his second good decision of the day and did not follow them.  Later he encountered them again and they indicated it was a very treacherous ride and they just barely made the loop’

Kadizzle carried on to the North.   The white stuff on the road was snow.  It was in spots and Kadizzle had to decide if he could make it back up if he went down over snow.  Motorcycles and snow don’t mix.  This turned out to be a poor decision.  Kadizzle went on for miles, but when he came back he had to get off and push the cycle through the snow with the engine in gear up hill.  It was fortunate it worked, otherwise Kadizzle would have had to call The Commander to come rescue him.  

At the end of the day it was a wonderful ride although a very long one.  In total it must have been close to 70 miles on dirt roads.  The scenery and travel through the tall pines was worth it.  Could have done without the snow.