Dirty BARFers at Moab Fall 2016

[HadesOmega]

Trail

Back on a wide road but with lots of sand

Victory donut!

Back at the staging area

 

[Eric B]

Fins & Things trail -

 

[Eric B]

Persistence Towers, among the Monitor/Merrimack trail.

 

[HadesOmega]

So the second time we went out to ride we were going to do an easier ride at a place called Gemini Bridges which I had planned to ride on my quad but we wound up doing the ATV trails on the Sovereign trail. I just recently fixed my quad a Yamaha Warrior 350 and was eager to get some seat time on it. I haven't ridden a quad much less this one for more than a year. Also I had never ridden a quad in the desert. I was worried if it'd be ok but a couple donuts in the parking lot confirmed it was ok. I knew the quad would beat me up pretty bad on the rocky section, quads can't go over rocks as smoothly as bikes. I was riding it at a pretty good speed enough to keep up with everyone else. The only time I really had an advantage is on something flat or SANDY. The 2WD has a definite advantage over a moto's 1WD in the sand. I was able to get great video and pictures on the quad cause you can just sit on it and pull out the camera. I was pretty much the chase vehicle.

Riding the quad made me kind of lazy because it made me want to sit more. I thought I was kinda holding the group back because I can't go some places the bikes can go but it did ok, provided we didn't do any single track. The quad is not easy to get over ledges. Also I noticed like a motorcycle you don't want to fight the quad on the bumps just kinda move with it especially if you hit a rock and it moves the handlebars it best to try to move with it, because its pretty violent. OaklandF4I gave me a lot of $hit for deploying the quad but I don't regret it, I can have fun on 2 wheels or 4 wheels and I had a blast and I didn't hold the group up as bad as I thought I would. From what I hear the quad makes a dust storm behind it.

QUAD PORN! This quads name is Wall-e since it looks like the robot from Wall-e, the previous owner called it that.

 

[HadesOmega]

Sasquatch riding the Sovereign Trail

Desert, white sands, and valleys as far as the eye can see.

Plenty of slickrock out here too

Anytwowilldo

This area is near the Arches National Park actually

Break time! Epic mountains in the background.

Wall-e is holding up fine.

Red Beta and Green Kawi

Canyons and mesas

Some info on the Sovereign ATV trail

Great day of riding my hands are pretty tore up, time to get out those blister undergloves I forgot to bring with me today.

Back at the staging area after blasting through the deep sandy trails

Dirty everywhere

GPS Stats for the 2nd ride through the Severeign Trail.

 

[HadesOmega]

One more didn't fit looks at that background scenery

 

[gixxerjeff]

I hate the process for posting pics from a mobile device, so I'll post my report when I get home.

I was beginning to worry about you, dude.
I saw pics of your bike , but none of you and no posts (up til here)
Awesome shots, guys.....beyond impressive.

 

[OaklandF4i]

Quick update..... Three fantastic days of riding thus far.

As already mentioned, we have the purple unicorn award. 1962siia inherited it from me on the second day after a number of nominations. Most notable was asking for someone to ride to his CR up a ledge without even attempting. New nominations for today's rides to discuss over dinner.

We also have a second dailey award, that.... well.... we can't mention its name on the forum. It rhymes with lard, bard, guard, and motard. So we will call it the daily unmentionable. Merlin was awarded it after yesterday's ride. 1) for pulling quad off the trailer and actually riding it and 2) doing donuts on it while dusting everyone in the staging area.

Multiple nominations for tonight's dinner. Twosteokeyardsale may have one as he lead us to 3 or 4 staging spots until he found one suitable to unload his YZ.

We also had a rider go down hard today. Sasquatch took a tough tumble. The group's first concern was the loss of our Chef. After Lunchbox offered to step in, we got to work gettin Sasquatch medical attention. Non life threatening, but the big guy is quiet and resting.

 

[2strokeYardSale]

Last night Eric B and I came up with an easy, scenic route that everybody could do without a walk of shame. The Plan was Hurrah Pass-Chicken Corner then backtrack to Kane Creek Canyon and ride it as a spur.

There was a well-maintained dirt road and some people were not happy riding it. We all followed Eric B back to help a woman who stuck her truck in her camp site. Some Jeepers with a winch also helped.

We finally got going again and the road got rougher but it was still a road not a trail. It got more fun as it became the switchbacks up Hurrah Pass, which had a scenic overview of the river.

NorcalSlowpoke snapped these pics of Jackson playing around.

OaklandF4i photobomb!

 

[2strokeYardSale]

I cracked the whip, no lollygagging allowed, and got everybody on the road again. Soon Jackson pulled over, saying he was going back to the truck because the road was boring (it was) and it was tearing up his tires (not the road's fault). That left nine of the Moab mob to make it to Chicken Corner.

We walked around the goat path over the river. Bikes were not allowed or I would have ridden.

Walk carefully, it's a long way down.

I sat over the edge for a snack.

 

[2strokeYardSale]

We returned to the staging area where Jackson told tall tales of heaving his bike up unrideable ledges. A rider we met at Chicken Corner told us our big orange clad rider (Sasquatch) was down and shaken up with our sweep rider (Eric B). He returned riding his bike, bruised and banged up.

Eric B, OaklandF4i, NorcalSlowpoke, and I left for a quick exploration of Kane Creek. We barely got into the creek portion when we had to return to the group, but I got some pics.

Tonight chef Sasquatch is resting and chef Lunch Box is grilling pork. We will vote on the recipient of the pink unicorn of shame and the tard trophy. Maybe one of these days one of us overachievers will win both!

 

[2strokeYardSale]

Most notable was asking for someone to ride to his CR up a ledge without even attempting.

The video of his Walk of Shame will live forever and there is talk of a looping animated gif. Hey mods can we get a special 1962siia88 Walk of Shame smiley?

I want to see it dubbed with the "Lonely Man" from the end credits of the old Incredible Hulk TV show.

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[HadesOmega]

Day 3 - So sad I took a bunch of epic pictures today and sadness my SD card got corrupted somehow so I lost a good chunk of them. I do have some bonus quadcopter vidcaps of our staging area. So today we did a scenic ride that was a lot of wide gravel, rocks, slickrocks, and sand called Hurrah Pass and Chickens Corner. The place of area we staged at was called Kane Creek. It was a lot of highspeed desert type riding and the KLX did great. The only problem is the KLX max cruising speed is like 40MPH and it's MAX speed is 53mph as I found out later. The larger bikes just blew me away on the straights.

Jackson riding on the top of the world

Colorado River Canyon Selfie at Chickens Corner

Still some tall rocks from up here

Dismounted the KLX and hiked around Chickens Corner

If you look very carefully you can see a SUV on the other side of the canyon

Passed Chickens Corner is a big mesa you can see OaklandF4I and Norcalslowpoke somewhere in this picture.

You can see 2strokeyardsale sitting down on chickens corner and Anytwowilldo and EricB

I hiked a good distance out passed Chickens Corner, it was beautiful and totally worth it. I did get quite winded doing it though that elevation =/

Panoramic

See that big chunka rock there I went down and up that.

I found another little Chickens Corner and took a picture of my bike from there. I could only see my bike though, can't mistake that Kawasaki GREEN! It was kinda freakin me out though, I get vertigo if I look over a cliff. Also my camera has 21x zoom and it still looks hard to make out the bike.

I've learned this camera doesn't do the best panoramics but here one. Where i stopped hiking you can see the Colorado river doing a U turn.

And back at the staging area. It was like a race back to the staging area except the danger of 2way traffic with side by sides and jeeps coming at you.

Here is the trip stats for our ride to Chickens corner. I have to fix that max speed it always says 91 for some reason. I can tell you I got the KLX140 to about 53mph and it was around 9000RPM. Workin that little 140!

Here's a map of Kane Creek that was at the staging area. Still more to explore. Later on a group went and rode the Kane Creek Trail.

 

[HadesOmega]

Some bonus photos on the way out of Kane Creek.

There are actually some people that live in this canyon. Pretty crazy. Here is a cool structure that was built into the canyon, like it was built by native americans.

There's a cave up there but it was private property.

Took this picture kinda near a little slab beach on the Colorado river. I had to climb down this rocky part here.

Here you can see one of the Arches or landbridge for this area. It actually near where the road ends and goes into town. I had a zoom picture of the Arch but it got lost with the corrupt data. I may come back later and try to get it again.

Colorado River Panoramic

 

[HadesOmega]

BONUS quadcopter footage of the Kane Creek Staging area.

Anytwowildo is going on a search party to see what happened to Sasquatch and EricB here.

And he's gone

View of on of the canyons from of staging area.

The canyon across from the Colorado river

Picture down the canyon

This is the picture of the road that takes you to Hurrah Pass

The BARF convoy staged

Been practicing some pan out in the quadcopter

Right on top here

EricB making his entrance here

You can see there a lot of trees and vegetation that line the Colorado River in this picture.

 

[HadesOmega]

Some closeups of the bikes

 

[gixxerjeff]

Amazing stuff guys.
More please!

 

[2strokeYardSale]

Today we did a warm-up on Slickrock, which was a first for Lunch Box. Sasquatch was out with two broken ribs so we were down to nine.

We refueled and headed for Porcupine 4x4 trail and Porcupine Rim trail. If the trail is named rim, you know there are going to be good views.

The trail generally beat you up then it offered some ledges. The first obstacle caught Lunch Box and the second obstacle caught AnyTwoWillDo.

Between obstacles we could admire the view.

OaklandF4i rode 1962siia88's bike up this obstacle.

1962siia88 was beat and stopped but later conquered the last major obstacle and showed up to meet us at a scenic point.

All that hard work paid off.

Eric B, AnyTwoWillDo, and I continued down Porcupine and a portion of Fins & Things while the rest bailed out on Sand Flats road.

Back at the staging area I discovered a nice cut in the sidewall of my well-worn tire.

Certain people from Oaklamd had trouble grasping the concept of Porcupine Rim trail and would refer to it as Pine Cone, Pineapple, and various other incorrect names. For your benefit, I present the following educational material.

 

[KWeezyXB12]

This thread gives me so many feels

 

[1962siia]

Porkandswine Rim was amazing. Had to do the walk of shame again but hey what can I say? Fun times and pretty incredible what a bike can go up even with an untalented rider. So glad I came on this trip. Woot!