lqhikers
Senior Member
Just a short report on our trip through Cal,Org,Idaho,Nevada.
Had a great time,exploring,hiking, sight seeing,fishing,
A few pictures will follow.
The reason for short report? We were headed back to the lone pine area to spend our last week or so doing some more in depth exploring of the area.
So we set up our base camp at a blm campground (Tuttle creek).Unloaded the motorcycle to use for exploring,took a ride to town to get map at visitor center on road to death valley,great selection of maps books info on area,on the way back we came up the old tuttle creek road and as we rounded the last corner(the ranch that Hop-a-long Cassidy built way back when)as we came over the hill at about 30 miles a hour the owner of the ranch was opening a stock gate with the help of her 40-50- pound cattle dog who deceided we were not welcome came across the 10 feet of road did not slow at all and hit our front tire,down we went,lots of road rash,wife dislocated knee scraped up leg,she was lucky as when we went down she landed on me,saved her rear but added to my bad luck as i ended up with dislocated left wrist and finger,deep road rash neck to toe.Cracked my helmet tore my high top boot off,tore my left glove off and to add insult to injury bent the forks on our dual sport,tore thortle off brake handle off,pulse anything sticking out.
Spent the rest of day in lone pine E.R.(really great people who work there),never lost their since of hummer as they dug gravel out of me.
First road wreck in 53 years of riding road bikes (spills in dirt do not count!
We are not mad,sad,but glad we did not suffer any major injuries what happened is now past and we will recover with no damage and ready to continue our journey.(also maybe i can talk the wife into a new bike instead of fixing old one!)
Anyway thats the story, now a few pictures.
Drive slow and enjoy "it the journey"
Les and Virginia,Lqhikers
Had a great time,exploring,hiking, sight seeing,fishing,
A few pictures will follow.
The reason for short report? We were headed back to the lone pine area to spend our last week or so doing some more in depth exploring of the area.
So we set up our base camp at a blm campground (Tuttle creek).Unloaded the motorcycle to use for exploring,took a ride to town to get map at visitor center on road to death valley,great selection of maps books info on area,on the way back we came up the old tuttle creek road and as we rounded the last corner(the ranch that Hop-a-long Cassidy built way back when)as we came over the hill at about 30 miles a hour the owner of the ranch was opening a stock gate with the help of her 40-50- pound cattle dog who deceided we were not welcome came across the 10 feet of road did not slow at all and hit our front tire,down we went,lots of road rash,wife dislocated knee scraped up leg,she was lucky as when we went down she landed on me,saved her rear but added to my bad luck as i ended up with dislocated left wrist and finger,deep road rash neck to toe.Cracked my helmet tore my high top boot off,tore my left glove off and to add insult to injury bent the forks on our dual sport,tore thortle off brake handle off,pulse anything sticking out.
Spent the rest of day in lone pine E.R.(really great people who work there),never lost their since of hummer as they dug gravel out of me.
First road wreck in 53 years of riding road bikes (spills in dirt do not count!
We are not mad,sad,but glad we did not suffer any major injuries what happened is now past and we will recover with no damage and ready to continue our journey.(also maybe i can talk the wife into a new bike instead of fixing old one!)
Anyway thats the story, now a few pictures.
Drive slow and enjoy "it the journey"
Les and Virginia,Lqhikers
If it was a Queensland Healer they can be quite a handfull and are'nt real friendly towards outsiders. Had a friend who was a Forester up in Mendocino that had a Healer which rode on the back of his quad that he used for a Mountain Lion alarm. Have to admit that they are one tough dog. Glad the rest of your trip was nice and as always thanks for the nice pics and write up. If all goes well I will be in the Eastern Sierra for ten days at the end of Sept/Oct.
