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Day ride part-4

Okay, last set of photos. I ran out of time last night as I was adding information to these photo sets. I took the photos on Saturday. I added all the photos and saved as drafts on Tuesday, added the words on Wednesday, and finished today, Thursday.

The first two photos are a continuation of the last post and the stop on the way back down.

Top photo, Stacy standing next to her favorite Honda quad.




In the second photo I was trying to show how dirty the quads had gotten from the dusty trails. Even though it had rained a few days before, and there were some really nice stretches of damp and dust free trail, most of it was kicking up a lot of dust. Even trying to drift back and keep a distance between each quad, the way the wind was blowing that afternoon kept the dust clouds close to the trail and on us!Its easiest to tell on the little tail gate of the Polaris. It is supposed to be black and not tan! It was the kind of dust that you pat your leg and a small cloud would drift off!

The last photo was our last stop as we made our way back to the truck and trailer down by the highway.
We were getting pretty low and it was pretty hot about 90 which is HOT for this area!
It was actually a really nice ride. By our odometers on the Polaris and Yamaha, the Honda doesn't have a speedometer, it was 32 miles round trip from the trailer to the top of the mountain and back to the trailer.
Stacy has to be in Pocatello all next week so we're planning a really long ride for the weekend after she gets back. We're going to take advantage of the fact you can ride the ATV's on the roads around here and start from our house and ride up to another area mountain East of us and catch the Forrest Service roads on the back side and ride down to the river then back. Should be a lot of fun. They'll be more photos then! Tad

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