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Here is the entrance to the SRA. The SRA was just completed in 2018, so everything is new and perfect. It is an excellent stopover or staging point for a ride. Amenities include RV hookups and covered tables with overhead lighting and showers. Aside from camping basics you can also hike, bike, view wildlife or go kayaking or fishing on the East Walker River.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
The DDMC brain trust arrived early on Friday to set up camp. Our camp featured a ring of 6 RV hookups, plenty of space for tent camping, and a large covered picnic area with barbecue grill in the center. The DDMC site was a good distance from other campers and felt private – really nice. Pictured are Wayne, Dave and Dean, left to right.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
The route for Saturday’s ride went south along East Walker Road, crossed into Mineral County from Lyon County, then into Mono County in California before reaching the ghost town of Bodie. We planned to ride down to Bridgeport as well to take a break before returning to camp.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Dean was riding his new AJP PR7. This is about as close to a unicorn dual sport as you will find. Dean and I drag raced on a section of open trail. We were even through third gear then he pulled a bike length on me in fourth. That AJP ain’t slow.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Some pioneer homes had seen better days. This could have been a welcome abode in the middle of winter 130 years ago.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
We crossed over the East Walker River and headed inland shortly after passing the Flying M Ranch. The Flying M Ranch was owned by Barron Hilton and features a 5,500′ runway. Dean said the ranch was were Paris Hilton lived while in rehab in the 90s . We didn’t see any nightclubs anywhere near the ranch, ha. Aviator Steve Fossett was last seen alive there when he took off in a small plane on September 3, 2007. An extensive search found nothing. A hiker found his plane more than a year later on a high peak in the Ansel Adams Wilderness near Mammoth.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
We passed some lush aspens heading up Anchorite Pass Road towards the Bodie Hills.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Here Annette is riding past the remains of an old building on the outskirts of Bodie, a town once described as “…a sea of sin, lashed by the tempests of lust and passion”.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Gold was discovered by W.S. Bodey here in the summer of 1859. Bodey attempted to return to the site that fall but died here in a blizzard. However, news of the gold discovery attracted thousands of fortune hunters and millions in gold and silver were extracted, mostly in the 1870s. Bodie once had 60 saloons and dance halls and was known as one of the wildest and most dangerous places in the west. The highest population of the town was 8,500 in the late 1870s, but population declined rapidly in the 1880s as the gold run ended. The town was completely abandoned in the 1940s.
This is what remains of the head frame of the Red Cloud Mine:
Rides: KLR650, KX250
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