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Adventure riding short rides and BS thread

Some Adventure B.S. Stony Style

I met up with some real ADV guys @bananachunks , @SFMCjohn, and a few other's for an early 60th hatching day celebration. Stonyford / Fouts Springs in January? I can't believe anyone showed up. Temps were in the low 20's every night.


John on his future ride (photo credit goes to @bananachunks


I'm not so burly because I haul my bike around with my Van..


BC led us around on one of his bitcthin loops. Here he's explaining how easy it is to get from the top to the bottom.




I chickened out at the Bartlett Springs to M5 water crossing. With temps in the 40's and it being later in the day I didn't want to risk getting hypothermia



If we weren't with him BC would have just gone through it. That's the difference between Burly and not so burly adventurers.


Next day we hit Goat Mountain.



You can literally see for miles up here when it's clear



Then on the way down we hit some ice that snuck up on BC and I got a pic for my next motivational picture




I tried to ride it



Picked up a big piece of metal five miles from camp on the way back.



Changed the tube (I had some help from BC and others)



The fun is over there
 
always say “yes” whenever Mr Cabrito tells you he’s gonna be up by Fouts Springs:


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sunrise, Friday morning:

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so far in 2025, I’ve managed to ride and camp a total of five nights thanks to motivation from my BARF friends …

have to say that Stonyford in January isn’t something that would have occurred to me to try, left to my own devices, but it was pretty awesome! :ride
 
N4teTheGreat said:
Looks like fun, but I dunno about those temps, I'm a "well insulated" individual, but I would still have been looking like this in my tent....
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:thumbup

you're a Colorado boy, I'm sure you can ride circles around me when it comes to enduring the winter. :laughing

I was actually not cold at all in my tent on Friday or Saturday. tricks I use are camping with two 20 deg down sleeping bags, and changing into absolutely dry clothing before (trying) to go to sleep.

the main reason I moved to California wuz so I could ride year 'round--so that's what I try to do--it's just that the kind of riding I like to do these days includes camping. :ride :clown
 
I think my lower limit for actually riding is around 35 degrees, because that's the coldest temp I have seen on my dash when riding 😆 coldest I ever camped was in Moab in the winter, overnight temps were something like -3 or so. Slept with everything on and did ok. It was in the 70s the following day, so great mountain biking.
 
I planned a day @ Stonyford, and got rain the day before, when I got there close to two feet of snow everywhere.
Early it was light snow, after the sun hit, it got the into the cement stage of heavy.
I had a blast that day, no one around, all my tracks.
My TT did just fine, third or fourth gear throwing snow, rolling about 15 to 20 mph, slo motion drifting thru drifts. Everything so clean & white
 
a guy from the Cal Poli Penguins is using a pic that Mr @kalle took 15 years ago during a Carrizo Plain superbloom to help promote their 04/05/25 dual sport ride:


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I’m the guy with a patch on the pre-gen KLR on the top right … :ride

another pic from March, 2010:


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thanks to Mr @bananachunks for the FB heads-up … I’ve been trying to catch such a spectacular super bloom down at Carrizo ever since then, with no luck. :laughing
 
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I have never experienced Bloomers down yonder.
I remember a purplish aweome bloom in the Sierras. Just not the expanse shown.

I would like to do it.

I think I can ride my Duc on a little dirt.:teeth

Be a worthy goal for ‘26.

**Make calendar entry for 12.25.01 to figure it out**
 
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