Travels with The Original Easyrider®
2022
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Yours truly, graduating boot camp, September, 1965
Pictures of my 2022 ride to
Windy Ridge
Pictures of my 2020 trip to
Windy Ridge
Pictures of our
2016 Season Opener Ride.
Pictures of our
2015 Season Opener Ride.
Pictures of our
Fall 2014 Windy Ridge Ride.
Pictures of our
Summer 2014 Windy Ridge Ride.
Pictures of our
2013 Windy Ridge Ride.
Pictures of our
2012 Windy Ridge Ride.
Pictures of our
2011 Windy Ridge Ride.
Pictures of our
2010 Windy Ridge Ride.
Pictures of other area outings can be seen
HERE and
HERE.
The road to Windy Ridge typically doesn't open until late June or early July.
Call first, obviously.
One of my last visits back home before heading to OCS (Old Choppy Seas).
With my first GF Ann Calabro, a very nice goil.
Amphibious Assault Training, Little Creek, Virginia
Friggin' smoke watch, somewhere around Guam. Everybody in the Military stands
watch even if they are just hitching a ride. Note the radar right above my head
frying my innerds....
Seems like I always managed to have a bike when I was on base. This was the
"community Triumph".... cost a few bucks a month to timeshare it.
No helmet law in California!
Coronado Naval Training Center
A quick stop to cut some donuts up here in 2020
There was no one and I mean NO ONE up here except for a few hunters.
Super thick smoke due to all the wildfires going on... many of them set
by Antifa/BLM Terrorists.
These pictures were taken with my Nikon D810 camera and my Zeiss
50mm f/1.8 Planar T* manual focus lens
I've been doing the Windy Ridge thing for decades. Even when the
weather is crappy there's always a lot of people up here. Today, no one.
A few hunters parked in turnouts along FR 99 and a Ranger now and then
but Windy Ridge was a ghost town.
Since I had to turn in the car in a couple of days I took the opportunity
to cut a few donuts in the parking lot when no one was looking.
Enterprise usually gives me a pretty good car but they really outdid
themselves this time with a 2020 Dodge Challenger Hemi with all the
options and only a couple of hundred miles on it.
Of course now it has almost 10,000 miles on it and while it took everything
I did to it, it was off-roading, 4x4-ing and 0-80 a LOT... got it up to
140mph. Maybe a little faster. At that speed you really can't be taking
your eyes off the road. And numerous hole shots.... I'll probably need
to be seeing a tough, smart, whiplash lawyer soon....
Summer Opener, 2022. They just opened FR 99 this weekend. This road
and FR 25 is still pretty beat up.
The Plains of Abraham. I hiked that entire trail starting at
Lava Canyon many moons ago. You're pretty much out in the wildreness
out there. No water. No shade. And lots of critters who will
happily eat you.
I stood at the top of the Mount St Helens summit a few times. The
peak at the upper left is right about the end of the "official" climb
although the actual summit geological marker is not in view.
Pretty amazing life experience eclipsed only by the day I stood at
the summit of Mount Hood.
That's Mount Adams, of course. Mount Rainier was in full view
on this very clear day but there just aren't any vantage points
to get a good picture of it from the road. There are some hikes
that offer better views but it was 90+ degrees out and I wasn't at
all prepared to go off into the wilderness just to get a picture.
I already have many images of Mount Rainier taken on previous adventures.
They just opened the road to here last weekend and there is still a
fair amount of snow on the side of the roadway up here.
Oil temperature was 222 degrees when we got to Windy Ridge.
Pretty toasty but actually good for boiling off any water that's
in the oil bag. So glad I installed an oil cooler right after
buying this really reliable Harley 12 years ago thanks to some
advice from Blondie, a fun goil in my distant past.
FR 25 is still pretty beat up but after all these years I know where
most of those huge pot holes are. Well, except for those massive
craters at the very end of the third and last stretch of gravel.
My 60 years of riding experience is all that kept me from dumping it.
Man, is that one ugly fuck or what? This is why I am always
behind the camera and not in front of it. How on God's green earth
I always seem to replace the old model with a new, younger, hotter model
has always been a total mystery to me. It's certainly not due to my
stunning good looks, sparkling personality or even my mind-blowing
intelligence. Good luck more than anything I guess. Or perhaps a
small compensation for having to endure past injustices?
Pictures of me and Sarah are definitely images of beauty and the beast.
Not complaining one lttle bit. Just saying. I'm glad she hasn't had
her eyes checked recently.
The obligatory stop at the McClellan viewpoint. Haven't been here
in quite a few years.
Mr Blue is looking all shiny and clean while Sgt Dilligaf gazes
off into space.
A few images taken in Stevenson, Washington.
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