Al's Moto Log

First moto ride with my wife!

Two rides in one day! Phil and his wife invited Alisha and I to go on a wives’ ride. Unfortunately, Phil didn’t have Dana’s bike all put back together from recent maintenance and they had to bail out before we even got to ride… bummer, raincheck on the date Phil…

Alisha was nervous but she did awesome. I took a chance and decided to take her off the dirt roads and give her a little taste of single track on Richard’s, she’s a natural and said she liked the stream crossings. We came out White’s and it was a little muddy at the top. Conditions on Richards are perfect. I’m proud of her, good job Alisha!

Ran into Tim, Matt, and kids on Richards. Jordan and Tyler looked like they were having fun on their bikes, we never could catch up with them and I forgot to whip out the camera when we saw them… :/

Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/MotoAlishaSFirstRide

Posted by al on June 14, 2008 in Trails

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Clifton

June 14

Got up early and hit the Clifton loop. Conditions were great, it’s going to start getting dusty soon. Met a couple more guys excited about riding and had a good time!

Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/20080614MotoClifton

Crew: Phil, Cam, Zac, Moe, and myself

Posted by al on June 14, 2008 in Trails

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Woohoo! Gates are open…

June 06

Hurray, the gates are open!

Chaz and I decided to celebrate the occasion with a trip up BtC. It ended up being muddier than expected and we rode the roads back out.

Chaz’s bike standing by itself, no kickstand…

Yuck.

Posted by al on June 6, 2008 in Trails

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West Desert Camping Moto

May 26

So, we decided to pack up the kids and head west for Memorial Day to do some riding in the west desert. It was beautiful when we got out there Sunday evening. We set up camp, played for a little bit, made a campfire and roasted some marshmallows. The boys look like they fit their motorcycles well this year and Alisha likes her new moto.

We woke up the next morning to rain… I thought to myself, “no big deal, the weatherman said there was a good chance of rain, we’ll wait it out, let it dry, and still get plenty of time to play.” So, the kids woke up, came into our tent and we had a good time playing games, reading books, and taking naps… it kept raining and raining and raining… finally about 2pm we decided to pack it all up and see if we could get out (we were about 1/2 mile off the main road). We had to get a little rowdy with the Jeep but finally made it back to the road with a huge sigh of relief. It’s seriously going to take a week of cleaning to get the nasty salt-clay cleaned off of everything.

Moral of the story: you’d have to be an idiot to go camping to the west desert in the rain… “Making Memories” is what we like to call adventures like that.

Posted by al on May 26, 2008 in fun

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Dayton-Clifton Basins

May 24

We were a little bit worried with all the rain that fell Friday, but conditions ended up great overall, a little muddy in some places and bustin’ through snow drifts and dropping off cornices in other places. We ended up with quite a group, 13 altogether and it was a lot of fun.

Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/20080528DaytonClifton

Crew: Brock, Cam, Cort, Jake, Rich, Chris, Riverdance450, Zac, Zane, Braden, Nate, another Nate, and me.