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Mark usually rides in the Norcal area, and really enjoyed the change of pace offered by our high desert terrain. Both the WRR and rider handled everything Moon Rocks could dish out.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
In this shot Dean is dropping into a challenging single track that goes up a long canyon. Dean wasn’t getting much bite from his front brake so the steeper descents were ‘fun’, ha.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Moon Rocks has single track trails cross-crossing the big hills on Warm Springs and Dogskin mountains and you can connect one to another directly or via a short hop on a whooped out jeep trail. We had a pretty good success record on hill climbs, although some needed 2 attempts and some we only tried to go halfway up. You tend to find rocks as you climb, so a few of the peaks were adorned with small rock gardens on top. That type of climb is good training for balance and clutch and throttle control.
I managed to get a few ‘action’ shots of one of the tricky sections with scattered rocks and roots.
You can see Mark picking out the rut on the right here in action shot #1:
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Action shot #2 – Mark clipped the root running vertically with the trail with his rear wheel and slid out. Dean came up and wanted to ride the left rut but decided at the last second to flip over to the right rut.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Action shot #3, Dean got hung on the rut hopping from the left to the right rut. He stalled it, but was able to ride it out from there. That takes some skill.
Rides: KLR650, KX250
Here is a pic of Mark and Dean on a high peak with a view to the north catching a piece of Pyramid lake. From here Dean rode back home on dirt. Mark and I continued riding single track in a more or less clockwise loop around the OHV area until we got worn out. After a lunch break we rode a few laps on a sandy turn track. The turn track was half perfect berms, half washed out flat turns – very fun and a little tricky.
We only saw a few people in the areas we rode, I think there were more mustangs there than other riders. We called it a day at around 3 and rode back to town on the highway.
The DDMC schedule is pretty full for May, but I will try to post up another impromptu ride here in Moon Rocks later this month. Thanks for checking out the RR!
Rides: KLR650, KX250
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