Thursday- The night
was quiet and dry except for the massive splatter of bird poop on my
rainfly. I was up
and gone earlier than
most folks and
headed north. While taking down the rainfly I found 2 stonefles on the
inside-
the first I’ve ever seen as live bugs.
I tossed them in the river but
no fish
took them. I was hoping to ride the
backroad that parallels US 93 starting from about Shoup,
Idaho.
But shortly
after heading out I ran into rain
so put on raingear again.
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| Here we go again. |
Was passed by another rider on a
newer, bigger BMW in
raingear. I caught him at the gas pumps in Salmon and we talked briefly.
He admired my 30 year old
motorcycle. I
continued in the rain.
At the wide spot called North Fork I
turned west on the
North Fork road toward Shoup. Last night the fellow said that Spring
Creek Rd
headed north the
way I wanted to go and
was ‘big bike friendly’ so
I rode west
toward lighter rain and lighter skies. The rain had stopped
when I
reached the
intersection with Spring Creek Rd so I turned up the road. It was
graded
gravel. As it
neared some residences the
gravel got less and less and as I went onward I finally came to a
fairly steep
hill with no gravel but recently wetted sand/mud.
Once again I considered my risk factors and
decided to turn around. Actually,
the
descent was kind of hairy as my engine was a bit
high-geared for good
holdback
and using much front brake was raising the risk. But I made it back
down to
pavement safely.
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| Spring Creek road started out ok but the gravel went away. Decision was because of the steep hill (can't tell in the pic) |
I turned east . Since the rain had stopped I took off my raingear and enjoyed cruising the twisty paved road. Back on US 93 headed I north.
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Over Lost Trail Pass and headed down – uh oh. Put the raingear back on barely in time.
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| Lost Trail Pass - 48 mi to go. And into raingear - again. |
And so I arrived in Hamilton in light
rain. I had lunch
at Subway, refueled
then headed over to Steve's (ShadyRascal) place.
Thurs, Fri and Sat made
that kind of a waste of time. And
it
slowed my dryout for Monday departure. Oh well.
I showered and shaved.
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| Bikes under cover because of the rain |
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| Destination - between rain showers |
Last Modified: 11/14/2020