Another ride….. so so

[Freedomflyer]

 

 Took a ride yesterday,  thought we'd try a different area out of the valley.  Had been talking to a guy I've been working with and he told me about an area 100 miles from us. We decided to check it out and drove over there, we got a pretty late start from home and ended up at the staging area around 4 and on the trail/road about 4:15. Should've done a bit more research about the area itself. It was more of a jeep road than a 4 wheeler trail.  We met a full size Hum Vee pickup coming down along with a couple of other pickups. Starting out the "road" was pretty much like any other forest service road to an atv trailhead except there was never any trail head as it was not a 50" wide trail. It just continues to deteriorate to probably one of the roughest, bumpiest, rock filled excursions we've been on in all of our 6 years we've been riding. The area was nice enough in that the forest is nice and healthy with lots of trees and normally we would've enjoyed exploring a new area but the roughness of the road made it somewhat unpleasant to ride. Maybe part of it was the fact it was laten in the day but my idea of a trail ride is not 1-5 mph most of the way. We just expected it to get better and it didn't. There was a loop and bt the time we finished the loop we had no interest in taking the spur up to the lake. Some folks might have really enjoyed it by was really not the kind of riding we enjoy, maybe if it had been an early morning ride we'd have felt differently.  So we'll chalk that one up to experience and probably  not do it again. Plus it's very very smoky.

[Ajmboy]

Great pictures! Looks like a really nice ride.

[Freedomflyer]

In retrospect it wasn't terrible,  I  think being late in the day played a big factor.  We were in a strange area and my wife wanted to be out of there before dark. So maybe felt a bit rushed an earlier start might have been better.