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BR-DV-Strawberry Report
What a weekend! Here's the report -
We had planed to run Barney Riley inbound on Friday and camp at the end, but with Ebbetts Pass closed on Saturday for a bike race called the 'Death Ride,' we were forced to do the trail inbound and outbound in the same afternoon in order to return to the west side of Ebbetts before the road closed so that we could meet up with those coming up for the day to run Deer Valley south to north. The change of plans worked out though and we ended up camping at Hermit Valley right at the Deer Valley trail head. BR is a great trail with the major obstacle being a steep hill climb on loose rock. Other than that its pretty mellow and very scenic. It was a nice warm up for Deer Valley which was more difficult that I had anticipated. We had 9 rigs. I was the only stock...and being stock the trail was quite difficult. For those considering running this trail stock, be ready to scrape alot. In the end, the trail took longer than expected, about 6.5 hrs from Hermit Valley to Blue Lakes. Because of two longer than expected days on the trail, most opted out of the Strawberry run. Props goes to Vaughn and 5and5torm for doing all three trails in one weekend! I hope one of you who ran strawberry will post about the trail!
Thanks to everyone who showed up. It was great meeting some new faces and seeing old friends. Thanks to 5and5torm for the great breakfasts, Pkelly for his fire house chili, Vaughn and Jo for the vegis,fruit and food prep supplies, and Mrs. Bozly for the desserts and imported bevs! A huge thanks to Potato, PBnFJ, OPG, Sbechtold and 5and5torm for spotting everyone through safely. I hope everyone had as much fun as I had!
Please share your pics, vids and stories here!
We had planed to run Barney Riley inbound on Friday and camp at the end, but with Ebbetts Pass closed on Saturday for a bike race called the 'Death Ride,' we were forced to do the trail inbound and outbound in the same afternoon in order to return to the west side of Ebbetts before the road closed so that we could meet up with those coming up for the day to run Deer Valley south to north. The change of plans worked out though and we ended up camping at Hermit Valley right at the Deer Valley trail head. BR is a great trail with the major obstacle being a steep hill climb on loose rock. Other than that its pretty mellow and very scenic. It was a nice warm up for Deer Valley which was more difficult that I had anticipated. We had 9 rigs. I was the only stock...and being stock the trail was quite difficult. For those considering running this trail stock, be ready to scrape alot. In the end, the trail took longer than expected, about 6.5 hrs from Hermit Valley to Blue Lakes. Because of two longer than expected days on the trail, most opted out of the Strawberry run. Props goes to Vaughn and 5and5torm for doing all three trails in one weekend! I hope one of you who ran strawberry will post about the trail!
Thanks to everyone who showed up. It was great meeting some new faces and seeing old friends. Thanks to 5and5torm for the great breakfasts, Pkelly for his fire house chili, Vaughn and Jo for the vegis,fruit and food prep supplies, and Mrs. Bozly for the desserts and imported bevs! A huge thanks to Potato, PBnFJ, OPG, Sbechtold and 5and5torm for spotting everyone through safely. I hope everyone had as much fun as I had!
Please share your pics, vids and stories here!
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Permalink Reply by sbechtold on
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It was really great to meet new folks and see some familiar faces on the Deer Valley trail on Saturday. The trail was as scenic and beautiful as always and a lot of fun. Those dam mosquitoes were thick and nasty and then the rain and me without doors on my FJC. :^) I posted the pictures that my 10 y/o took in my photobucket album.
Here are a few:
It's only sheet metal...
Josh playing turtle on his buds...
Paul posing...
Group shot...
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Permalink Reply by bkreece on
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Sol, thanks for coming and bringing the kids! Your boy took some nice photos.
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Permalink Reply by PBn'FJ on
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Thanks for all the spotting, advice and excellent pictures your son took. It was great having you, Josh and Damon join us for the day.
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Permalink Reply by Vaughn on
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Thanx again everybody for the food, fun and tips! Jo and I had a great time. Please send us any cool photos of our rig if you gotem, we didn't take but 2 or 3 of ourselves, lots of shots of others will post on our photo page soon!
Great jobs spotting Sol and Sandstorm!!! No body damage tho, came close again on Sun in a tilty squeeze spot on Strawberry.
Strawberry is a Great trai!l took us about 4 1/2 hours or so with 2 major, and 3 or 4 minor squeezes and/or obstacles, and lots of small water crossings. Allot less mossies than sat. All on Sundays trail got the same tattoo. There was also a second really bouldery spot on strawberry as well! Overall 8.5 out of 10.
Will try and post photos!
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Permalink Reply by pkelly72 on
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Good times and thanks for putting it together Benji. We need to do another run before the baby is due in mid. August.
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Permalink Reply by Estysalinas on
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Strawberry was fun too! I posted the photos and I'll be posting some videos (raw though i don't have to pretty em up today :-))
pics:
http://norcalfjs.ning.com/xn/detail/2131553:Album:35374?xg_source=a...
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Thanks for coordinating and getting this run going Benji, I had a great time. Looking forward to the next run or get together.
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Permalink Reply by MOTORDRIVE on
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Sorry I missed your gig Benji, got hung up on some last minute projects before heading out for my Strawberry/Moab/OURAY Summit run. Went up Hwy 50 hoping to see you guys and know I saw Paul and few others heading home as I was heading east. Counted 22 FJs today from Sunnyvale to Ely, NV. A good day. Thanks for the videos and pics, next time dude!
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