Martin I am going to be busy 3rd week January and possibly the 4th. I have been invited to an annual meeting of area flat trackers I watched in the late 60's and 70's. Mike Kidd AMA #1and Terry Poovey #1 Short Track Ace will be there. I watched those guys since they were at least 13 years old. That is the 3rd. Week. 4th week been invited to another trip in Big Bend Nt. Park.I will keep you posted.
RC
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On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:52 PM, "Martin Earl mjearl4@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
John,I will pencil this on the calendar and then work on the budget.I am guessing this means both weekends.
Are you going to ride a KLR650 or a DRZ400?If you don't mind, I would like to ask Ross Lindberg to go/share expenses.
martinearl.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, John Biccum johnbiccum@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hey Norm
Do you want to ride DVNP about 3rd week in January? That's the optimal time to ride this park, the weather is perfect with daytime highs about 70 F and the overnight lows about 45F. This same park has daytime temps in the mid-120F range in the summer making frying eggs on pavement a popular tourist stunt!
The park has more miles of roads than the balance of the American National Park System [i]combined.[/i] But the "roads" date back to the days when the area was an active mining area meaning the "roads" are perfect for KLRs. There is enough riding in the park to keep a guy busy for a couple of weeks and the adjacent valley (Saline Valley) is similar in size.
I used to bring a group down from Seattle every year but over time those guys have all aged out of dual sport riding altogether and some have even sold off their bikes
We would do day rides out of Furnace Creek Campground leaving each day after breakfast and returning each day about dark in time for dinner.
DVNP is within a day's ride of most of the larger cities in California so the area is very popular with the Adventure Rider crowd. So lots of trip reports to peruse on
ADVrider.com and other sites if you want to get a better feel for the country.
We would usually trailer in from Seattle, not much to see on the way down there that I haven't see 20 times before plus the weather on the way down to DVNP is not likely to be snow free in the mountain passes (2 passes at about 4K elevation).