Fun times!! Good to see folks! Now time for part two, dirt bikes in Lake county! Woot!!
awesome pic ... let the locked gate turn me around ... :laughing
Does sound like most folks braved the gate and got to see a beautiful sunrise ...
I got to meet Stephen down by the locked magic gate, who says he's the contact with the Park Service and said that he'd gotten the proper permits for this year and that the reason the gate didn't get unlocked the way it was supposed to be was probably a man-power issue ...
Stephen said he'd simply get the key next year ...
said he's been doing the ride for 40 years and just wants to keep it going ... :angel
The All Star Cafe at 4:30am ... we had nine folks total show up in SF ...
George and his neat CB500 ...
has it set up for fire roads and is on his way to Moab this week ... :thumbup
seven mostly SFMC peeps, on the way to Tam Junction at 4:37am ...
I waited to 5am and collected one more BARF straggler ... Rob?
We had a nice ride across the bridge to Tam Junction ...
cool Virago at Tam Junction ...
BARF Baja vet Windsor was there with his hand-crafted bodywork/gas tank made by Rob D. who was also there this am ...
got to see five BARF Baja veterans, BARFer johnk (who also has a Rob D. tank/bodywork on his Herron-head M-G)
and a bunch of Mad Dog peeps ...
my spies tell me two wheel tramp made it to the top ... :angel
maybe I'll make it to the top for the sunrise next year ...
hear the key may be there in 2020 ... hopefully the weather will cooperate again ... :ride
see you around
the campfire,
-- SFMCjohn