A new adventure

On the 19th of November myself and Richard (Bob’s son) will be heading to New Zealand to have another adventure with Bob. We’ll be updating the site here with pictures, words and anything else we so desire. It’ll be a hoot!!

Day 21

I leave burn and head south to my first off road track of the day , it doesn’t take long to realize this is not good, it’s okay to plot a route on base camp or Google Earth but that doesn’t give you the complete picture and this was one of those tlmes, the track turned into a Sandy rutted bull dust holled pig of a track heading into a huge expance of flat nothing but desert the likes I have not seen before Iturn and head back to the safety of the gravel Rd 2 hrs later I go past where that track crosses the Rd I’m on and disappears into the most barren flat landscape I think I have seen

I continue on into Hart mtn national antelope refuge with great scenery and end up in the very small settlement of Adel , there’s nothing there except a small store

 

the nearest accommodation is cedarville a 100 odd Ks away which has one motel ,my phone doesn’t work so the lady at the store phones through for me and I get the last unit.the first 50ks is gravel that runs along the foot of a large mountain range and reminds me of the wide skiddy sth island rds, the perfect way to finish the day and the sealed section was just as good

As a footnote regarding my lnitial route I spoke to a bloke at the motel who had competed ln the Baja on KTMs and ls still an avid ADV rider and he said that the area I was heading into is regarded as the most isolated place in the USA thanks Kylie for making me make the right decision
Photo of sun in the smoke haze and it’s not just the bike doing this trip

Day 20

A long day , started with another locked gate and another detour through another state forest which was actually quite enjoyable and I did some nice side tracks and another viewing of Hell’s canyon . Back on route and I start a 80 km track and soon realize I’m not going to enjoy this at all , it’s 1st and 2nd gear on small rocks and ruts ,after a couple of kms I turn round , go , back and find an alternative route to my Next town and it turns out to be one of the highlights of the ride ,it takes me up the valley along side of the Snake River,

a great gravel Rd with great scenery all be it dulled by the smoke of the fires in California

The downside of this detour was it took me about 130km off route which meant a lot of sealed Rd some of which was quite boring Including a 40km dead straight flat piece of Rd
to my overnight stop at a not very tidy Town of Burn who’s main activity seems to be running large old jacked up 4wd trucks up and down the main St which seems to be empty of people
Photo s , straight Rd, snake river,on the way back off stoney rutted track  

Day 19

If yesterday was crap today was spectacular . For a start I was out of forests and headed for Lewiston across plains of wheat , the patterns and colours across the rolling landscape and the great winding gravel rds were a stark contrast to the confines of a Forest

 

I stopped for fuel in Lewiston and got talk to a local ADV rider ,he suggested a great route to Joseph and checking the route on the GPS was exactly as I had planned but little did I know how draw dropping it was going to be I followed the snake river before climbing 7000ft up a rocky track and then ride along the rim of the deepest river canyon in America at 7000ft, about 1000ft deeper than Grand canyon and not a tourist in sight Because of the fires in California any photos I took could not do any justice to this magnificent landscape It is called Hells canyon and to cap off the day a leasurly ride on more gravel rds to the town of Joseph