01-01-13 - Jordan Hills

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01-01-13 - Jordan Hills

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Went for a new years cruise up in the hills with my buddy Dave. Still waiting on my tires to come in for my 4runner so I took the bike.

to get there it starts off as an old trail that goes down and crosses a creek. I used to be able to get my broncoII down here years ago. Too washed out and overgrown now.
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steamy
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hitting the logging roads. Time to chain up
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The snow got fairly deep rather quickly. Fortunately there was a very hard thick crust about 3" down.
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Dave was on his TW200 with it's massive quad size tires. He floated really well.
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Me... well lets just say I was using all 450ccs I had available to stay on top :D
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I was able to float if I kept it in 2nd-3rd gear pinned, 15-30mph. Some sections had a better crust and I could just putz along. If I stopped it was an ordeal to get going again as my back tire would want to dig.. I had to paddle it along until I got into 2nd gear.
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Highmarking further up on a hill.. he won
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I hadn't hit bottom here.. I could have kept digging to china :D
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Jim Creek
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Hoar
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Trying to get a running start to jump on
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Olympics
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Snow was about 18-22" deep on the road
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Back down lower
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As the day went on the warmth started to soften the snow and gave me trouble. Had to turn around here and head back... started digging really bad.
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Playing around
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50hp.. all used up :D
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Headed back over and made a loop on a different lower hill... Rainier in the background
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Falcons riding thermals above us
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Mt Pilchuck
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Big Four?
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Back up in the white stuff
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Three Fingers
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Re: 01-01-13 - Jordan Hills

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That's pretty impressive. Looks like you guys were doing better than us. The crust just couldn't support our vehicles. Needless to say, you didn't miss much.

Great pictures!
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Re: 01-01-13 - Jordan Hills

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Thanks, it was pretty fun. My tires just came in so I am going to get them mounted up next week hopefully

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Re: 01-01-13 - Jordan Hills

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Did you get the wheels done?
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