Wabdr finish

On the road again.


Wild flowers, I love 'em

Old Baldy Mt.

Old Baldy Mt. from the back. It reminds me of Mt St Helens. The back is blown away and if you look close you'll see what looks like a small dome in the middle. The little lake in the picture is Roger Lake.

Roger Lake

One of the reasons we have to take the baldy pass. Big slide. According to the map we saw, there were several slides.

The only restaurant in Loomis gets my vote as to the best and most friendly.

Accross the street from the restaurant was the only T-rex we saw on the trip

Mountain sheep of some kind " city slickers ". They were in town. There were about 12 or 13 in all.

From Loomis to the boarder is about 15 miles.

We made it.

An old cabin a mile or two from the boarder.

The only "real" campground we stayed in on the trip.

Still having a good time.

Dave

Wabdr day 4

Wabdr day 4 

We're on the road again.

We met a group of riders heading south. They were going to meet their wives in Levenworth Wa for a vacation and then continue on.

Thunder storm in centeral Wa. can be real gully washers. We stopped at a closed store with covered gas pumps and discussed our options. We were there for about 2-1/2 hours or so it seemed.

We decided to go to Twisp Wa for  lunch and wait for the storm to pass for a while. On the way back to the route I got this picture of a statue of an Indian fishing. I know someone that has a real fishing spear like that.

After the rain, we continued on over Ruby Hill. On top we ran into something that caught us by surprise, ducks swimming in the road. We checked it out for a while and then decided to try to go through. Tim volunteered to go first. I didn't get any pictures of him, but he made it through ok. Here's a picture of Dick making his way through the first one.

Here I am going through the second one, and Dick going through the second one.

The way the land is up there, there's a kind of a meadow and it's shaped like a bowl with no outlet for the water, so when it rains, it just piles up and has to dry up or it's over the road. We make it through without any major problem, but it was one of the highlights of the trip.

We found a nice meadow for the camp for the night.

Still having a good time.

Dave

Wabdr day 3

Day 3 and we're on the road again.

Wildflowers everywhere.

Most of the roads were like what you see in these pictures, however some were worse. I didn't get any pictures of those roads because I was to busy hanging on.

The further north we went, the more we saw the forest like this. But that's the way nature is.

Here's a picture of a tree that was burned out and just left the bark.

Thousands of these little butterflies everywhere.

We ate lunch in some kind of restaurant every day. This one was at Ardenvoir Wa.

Good food here. Rated 5 stars.

Here's Odee

On the road again.

Here's our camp for tonight. The pot of gold is in Tim's tent. We were thankful that, that storm didn't go over us. It did rain on us at some part of every day except the last one.

Still having a good time.

Dave

WABDR day 2 

Here’s a picture of Dick going up a very difficult portion of our trip, probably the hardest. Here’s what another rider posted about this area.

“Day 2 The difficult section are indeed difficult and not big bike friendly. I was on a 650 and my brother-in-law on an 800. we paired up with two awesome guys on a KLR and another 800 it kicked our asses, but we did not have any wrecks. On rider broke his center stand. The hills at Cleman Mountain are VERY Steep and VERY rocky.
Bethel Ridge Difficult section has lots of deep water ruts running along the road and is easy to get stuck in.
If you are on a 1200 with moderate experience take caution.”

How about a guy on a 1150 with very little experience?    Me.

After we got to the top, this is what we saw.

Here’s Dick  “ the old guy ” on his KLR 650.

The view from Cleman Mt. looking toward Mt Adams. We wouldn’t see Mt Adams until the way back.

On the way to our second camp, we encountered snow in the road, but that didn’t stop us.

Tim's turn to hit the snow bank.

 

An old cabin at Haney Mdw.  about 5500 ft elev.

The local residents of Haney Mdws.

A flat tire, just fix it and move on. 

Our second camp.

The view from our camp.

Mushrooms and a fixer upper bird house.

Still having a good time

Dave