Adventure continued

[escapefjrtist]

Hell's Canyon that is...

Since weekends are made for riding and the weather is just spectacular this time of year a ride to Hell's Canyon was in order. MCRIDER007 and I left the tri cities on Saturday morning for a leisurely (ha) :blink: ride across Oregon with a final destination of the canyon.

Does everyone remember Hodaka dirt bikes? The humble building where they were assembled in Athena OR.

There were many of these along the way...

Oregon 204 east of Athena

With a nice babbling brook next to the road, a view up river

and a view down river

Coming into Enterprise OR doesn't look like much at first glance

Are you ready yet?

Ahhh, he we go, view opposite side of the valley

And another

To be continued...

 

[escapefjrtist]

Made it, Hell's Canyon Overlook. The HD's in the background were from PA. They were going to the OR coast, down to CA and then returning through the SW back home.

Now closer to the edge, but not too close

And finally

We finally made it. Pretty spectacular view at dusk with the shadows ans such

What a view down the gorge

This was just up river from us. Hope it's designed well...

The little Hilton for the night, no hots and two cots. Hell's Canyon Campground.

On the return trip Sunday, a new set of roads was in order.

Climbing up the pass outside Baker City to Anthony Lakes

To be continued....

 

[Mike-H]

Nice pics escapefjrtist....did you say the HD's were going to be trailered home? ....

 

[escapefjrtist]

The road to Anthony Lakes was very dirty in spots, but little did we know that just beyond this....

Was this, surprise!

Nice pair

You can tell that '007 wants to jump on that '06 can't ya?

But no way, cuz it's mine

What a great trip, thanks to 007 for planning the journey.

Various '06 thoughts

After running mine now near 3000 miles, here is some feedback for the new 06 riders.

Stock windshield sux...but it is getting better the more I ride it. It is still going to require replacement cuz at full up the bugs hit me right in the middle of the helmet.

Mileage looks to be close to a push compared to the prior years. Even with the fairly green engine, I was typically .10 gallon LESS than the '05 on each fill up. Why, dunno.

At elevation and in the twisties, at any speed less than 60 - 65, 5th gear is useless. I was always running a gear lower than the '05. I think Yamaha finally has the highway gearing sorted out. I typically don't get into 5th now until at least 65 on flat ground and 70 or so in the hills. No need for 6th any more :yahoo:

Hope you enjoy our adventure to hell.

--G

 

[shokdimn]

“Does everyone remember Hodaka dirt bikes?”

How could us old folks forget the “Combat Wombat”? Nice scenery. B)

 

[shu]

was considering, online only, joseph-enterprise as my punch-out destination when i decided on whidbey island. looked pretty ideal: lots of sunshine, affordable real estate, nice artist community. kinda located in bumf$$k, but that's part of the deal, right?

have yet to get there in person. have done the oregon outback on the way to burning man and back. man, there is a LOT of NUTHIN out there. pretty.

thanks for the great report and pics.

shu

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Nice write and nice ride...Time to explore Oregon!

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Nice snow drift!

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Thanks for sharing...truly gives me good reasons to do some extensive riding up there!