hatchb4ck
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Hey Everyone,
Thought I'd share some of the photos from my recent 3 day adventure ride on the Stornello to raise money for Veterans and high school student scholarships.
This all takes place in Missouri and is an annual ride that I have been participating in for the last 4 years. It's a trail ride and scavenger hunt combined. The scavenger hunt consists of GPS checkins, pictures, videos, answering questions about something at a location, etc. It's very fun and exhausting at the same time. Total distance on the trail was 557 miles...total distance ridden with travel to and from the event was 900+ miles.
On the morning of the first day, we came across a section of the track labelled "challenging two track", but there were no "large bike" warnings as there were for other tracks. There were climbs that I didn't think the Stornello would complete...but it did all of them. My friend wasn't so lucky as he went down 6-8 times in this section. Here's an example of one of the down hill sections of it, my buddy is on the ground at the top and I'm heading up to help him. It was less of a trail and more of a runoff.
A bit later, in this same section when attempting to climb a hill with some 6-12" high tree root topped ledges, I got a bit out of shape and came to a stop on a tree. Broke a piece off my Dart flyscreen and just about tore off the right turn signal....Otherwise unscathed.
The rest of the ride was mostly regular two track and forest service roads. There were probably 15-18 water crossings along the way. And one section we had to turn around, the "Power Line Run" where the second hill had several motorcycles stuck on it...so we turned around, climbed back up to the start and found a bypass on another section of two track. Here's some more shots from the along the way.
The first night we got to camp on the banks of the Current River. Nice view in the morning.
Example of one of the water crossings with my buddy splashing through....
The start of the "Power Line Run" on the last day, and a stop at the bottom of the first valley. That far hill in background of this first shot is the first of two steep climbs. The second was the steeper of the two...unfortunately I didn't get a picture of either of them.
The bikes at the finish line...there were more but some headed out before I got the shot. Altogether over 250+ riders this year.
Thought I'd share some of the photos from my recent 3 day adventure ride on the Stornello to raise money for Veterans and high school student scholarships.
This all takes place in Missouri and is an annual ride that I have been participating in for the last 4 years. It's a trail ride and scavenger hunt combined. The scavenger hunt consists of GPS checkins, pictures, videos, answering questions about something at a location, etc. It's very fun and exhausting at the same time. Total distance on the trail was 557 miles...total distance ridden with travel to and from the event was 900+ miles.
On the morning of the first day, we came across a section of the track labelled "challenging two track", but there were no "large bike" warnings as there were for other tracks. There were climbs that I didn't think the Stornello would complete...but it did all of them. My friend wasn't so lucky as he went down 6-8 times in this section. Here's an example of one of the down hill sections of it, my buddy is on the ground at the top and I'm heading up to help him. It was less of a trail and more of a runoff.
A bit later, in this same section when attempting to climb a hill with some 6-12" high tree root topped ledges, I got a bit out of shape and came to a stop on a tree. Broke a piece off my Dart flyscreen and just about tore off the right turn signal....Otherwise unscathed.
The rest of the ride was mostly regular two track and forest service roads. There were probably 15-18 water crossings along the way. And one section we had to turn around, the "Power Line Run" where the second hill had several motorcycles stuck on it...so we turned around, climbed back up to the start and found a bypass on another section of two track. Here's some more shots from the along the way.
The first night we got to camp on the banks of the Current River. Nice view in the morning.
Example of one of the water crossings with my buddy splashing through....
The start of the "Power Line Run" on the last day, and a stop at the bottom of the first valley. That far hill in background of this first shot is the first of two steep climbs. The second was the steeper of the two...unfortunately I didn't get a picture of either of them.
The bikes at the finish line...there were more but some headed out before I got the shot. Altogether over 250+ riders this year.
