12-15-2013, 08:39 PM | #1 |
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Horsepower conquers the desert.
Sometimes a lot of horsepower is the way to go, sometimes all it takes is one.
Roger and I were riding in our beautiful new desert riding area yesterday. One of the ranchers who runs cattle there leaves a couple of horses there too. Roger and I stopped for a break and a couple came over looking for a sugar cube or an apple. Roger's WR is a great sesert bike. I took the KLX rather than the YZF because it has the ability to run my heated gear, and it was chilly. On the higher hilltops towards the end of the day I was probably in the 20's. High's in maybe the mid 30's. Today we hit 60! Roger catching his breath and enjoying a connection with the Earth. I love dirt bike riding.
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12-15-2013, 10:42 PM | #2 |
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Sixty degrees?! I used to live about fifty miles south of you in Hermiston, Oregon. I forgot how much the warm air moving up the Columbia River warms the mild winters over there. Daytime high temperatures might reach the high thirties over here this week. We probably won't reach high temperatures of sixty degrees until May, but we will still be very grateful to get above freezing temperatures, even for a few days.
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12-15-2013, 10:48 PM | #3 |
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We had a wind from the south last night, a Chinook I believe. 60 is not normal for this time of year, but as you recall, it is not rare.
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12-15-2013, 10:49 PM | #4 |
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I think our high temperatures for the rest of the week are going to be somewhere in the mid 40s. Not bad, rideable.
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12-16-2013, 12:31 AM | #5 |
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Spud, maybe you should consider moving from Spudland to Docville. Imagine the fun you guys could have all year!
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12-16-2013, 12:40 AM | #6 |
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12-16-2013, 01:23 AM | #7 |
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I know from personal experience that WA State has beautiful mountains. I can see them from my neighbourhood.
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12-16-2013, 01:39 AM | #8 |
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Having climbed to the summits of Mount Adams and Mount Saint Helens, I know from personal experience that Washington has beautiful mountains. However, I would miss riding my motorcycles in the mountains of Idaho.
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12-16-2013, 02:57 AM | #9 |
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Besides, Doc keeps telling us he is moving back to California. If I left Idaho, he would just move away from me!
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12-16-2013, 11:35 AM | #10 |
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LOL!
I am going back to California someday, but likely not soon. I have nice hills here, but as Spud pointed out, not mountains. However, the Cascade Mountains, some of the highest in the country, and the Blue Mountains, more modest but the real thing, are both close by:-) As Weld says, I can see Mt Adams in the Cascades from the end of my street, and the snow capped Blue Mountains from my house.
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12-16-2013, 11:37 AM | #11 |
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With that said, 8 months of riding in Spudville is better than 12 months in most other places, but those 4 other months will freeze your knutskies.
Idaho is famous for winters cold enough to make a person dead.
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12-17-2013, 12:34 AM | #12 |
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Is that you medical opinion?
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12-17-2013, 12:48 AM | #13 |
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Medical opinion or otherwise, he is correct!
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12-17-2013, 11:26 AM | #14 |
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As the say in Wyoming, and I will extrapolare to Idaho, "20 below keeps the riff-raff out".
LOL!
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12-17-2013, 02:57 PM | #15 |
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Although it didn't work in my case, it does work most of the time.
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