| Big Butt '07 - Grass Valley, CA. - July 29 -30, 2007 - Dual-Sport Trip Report |
Gallery: Riding Gallery Number 3 
Album: Dirt Bike, Dual Sport, and Adventure Rides
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Friday, June 29, '07 - Day One - Pre-ride prep. at Doug P's garage in Grass Valley, CA.
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My '00 XR650R street legal and ready to roll.
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Doug Plumley the ride host and Big Butt Dual-Sport ride organizer.
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Big Butt participant John on his gnarly and Trick dual-sported Yamaha WR450 while we wait for the other half of four riders to appear.
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John's WR and the road from whence we came. We were waiting for Doug and Eric to show. Impatient we turned around and met them a couple bends back.
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Some of the tasty California gold country landscape.
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All four rides, L-R, John's WR450, Eric's DRZ400, dougc's XR650R and Doug P's XT350.
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Eric follows the camera while I make adjustments.
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Losing control of the sole camera Doug snaps our photo...Eric and dougc...
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...only to lose control himself as Eric snaps back...dougc and Doug P.
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The south fork of the Yuba River looking upstream/east from the back porch of Friday's lunch stop.
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The south fork again looking downstream/west from the back porch in Washington, CA.
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One of the most unique propane tank paint jobs I've ever seen. Notice the flower pot to the right.
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The front door to the bar/restaurant. Old-timers disease prevents me from remembering the name of the place. Somone leave a comment with the name of this place, please.
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While we ate the proprietors went to work with Independence Day decorations.
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How appropriate in gold country? Remnants of mines and mining operations abound in the surrounding hills. Some still quite active.
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We be headed in this direction out of the little town of Washington.
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As always, our motorized conveyances waited patiently for their masters to reappear and begin anew the spirited and sporty riding.
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Day one route -
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Day 2 - Saturday, June 30, 2007. One of our first stops and my first chance to breathe clean air as I ran first down to the next river bottom/crossing.
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Gallery: Riding Gallery Number 3
Album: Dirt Bike, Dual Sport, and Adventure Rides
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