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the barf rally from different perspective

luckett

The Green Bastard
Joined
Aug 14, 2007
Location
Campbell
Moto(s)
CBR600F3
Name
Bubbles
I rode up with a group and at lunch there were murmurings of not wanting to ride into yosemite valley because it was too hot!?! :wtf Come on people, the destination is the nevada desert!! (BTW, the valley was a scorching 85 degrees :rofl) They decide they were going to ride straight thru and pound the super slab playing postcard tourist while passing right by all the good stuff to see.

I knew right then it was time to fly solo and begin another infamous "luckett ride". I found a couple of foolish souls (Supah Dave/espionage101 and Mark/unkeldunkel5) who wanted to follow me. We had a great ride and saw things most people rode right past.


We had awful dog burritos in Groveland. Should've had the dog BBQ...

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As we stop to snap a pic, Dave says "Can we get down there?" I say, "Let's go!"

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Within the city limits of SF.

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We all live in a concrete submarine

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fresh and delicious hetch hetchy

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For some reason I had to take a leak after snapping these pics

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The bat cave

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Looking forward to more of your "different perspectives". I'm glad to see someone had the sense to want to explore and take pictures.
 
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While Supah Dave and his pie riding posse were having a two hour breakfast, Mark and I decided to take the dreaded car eating back way into the manufactured ghost town of Bodie. It was a 50 ft. wide gravel superhighway...until me made the wrong fork.

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Along the way we found a real ghost town, Aurora.


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The trail started to get worse and I decided to make sure we were on the right route. We were off, and I gave Mark (who was riding an FZR600 beater) the option to turn back or continue. To his own detriment we later find, he said continue.

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Did I mention that Mark is a badass mofo? No pie on this ride bitches!

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This where he got pinned under his bike after an off.

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Back upright and ready to roll.

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We had to get down there

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Looking back to where we came from once we got down there

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Coming

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and going

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I hit this 6" deep sandwash coming over that crest at about 50mph and almost had a mouthful of sand.

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Sweet, sweet pavement! :rofl

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The "ghost" town of Bodie. I felt like I as at Disneyland... Although it did make for some good pics.

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Mono Lake

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tufas at mono

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mono craters to the left

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You know the Olmstead Point overlook that everyone stops at to take the postcard pic? It overlooks Tenaya Canyon which leads into Yosemite Valley from the north. I decided to hike into it from Tenaya Lake.

Hidden Lake. Yes, that's what it's called.

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It was about a 5-600 ft. sheer drop off of this ledge.

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Little Yosemite Valley

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Cathedral Lake

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Tenaya Lake from the back side as seen from Cathedral Lake.

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Bambi

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Cathedral Peak

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The road back home.

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Pie was available along the way, but this was not that kind of a ride...

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GREAT! Can you post GPX file or a map where you went?
 
I would love to mix up the riding with some hiking, send a shout out next time around and let the other hiker-riders jump on your band wagon!
Great stuff, and props to the FZR rider, that looked like hard work!
 
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