The "JAFO's Back, Baby!!" Run 10-26-2014
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:28 am
As with many, many trips prior, this one started out on a wet and windy fall morning as the crowd gathered at the predetermined launch point (which happened to be my driveway this time). Stories of the prior evenings events were regaled, as had been Homecoming for some of the elder minions, coffee was topped off, and burritos were applied to manifolds. Shortly after 0700 we bailed into our respective outfits and headed West. The list of attendees looked something like this:
OG and Maverick the Jeeping Dawg
JAFO and his youngest daughter, the Hanahnator
Boyscout riding solo (but wait, he wasn’t really solo… more later)
And there was me with the ever present boy minion, G-man
So we were off like a herd of turtles, battling a stiff head wind until about Prosser. We rolled along at about 60-65mph, letting Boyscout set the pace with his 4 angry squirrels scampering away on the power wheel under hood. We topped off with fuel and coffee in Naches, and ran into Merrick Graves doing the same. From there we headed West on Hwy 410, taking a hard right onto FS-1701. A couple miles in, we stopped to air down:
The plan was simple: find a new route to the back side of the Funny/Moon Rocks area, drop from there over to the String trails, up Quartz Mountain, and then bomb down FS-31 into Ellensburg for a slushy. Well… After several attempts, we finally achieved the first of our goals, but the rest of the trip was planned on the fly. Overall, it couldn’t have turned out much better. We ended up running some trails we hadn’t been on in years, and found a few we hadn’t ever traversed at all. Best of all, it was just a beautiful day to be in the woods:
One of our first “wrongâ€
OG and Maverick the Jeeping Dawg
JAFO and his youngest daughter, the Hanahnator
Boyscout riding solo (but wait, he wasn’t really solo… more later)
And there was me with the ever present boy minion, G-man
So we were off like a herd of turtles, battling a stiff head wind until about Prosser. We rolled along at about 60-65mph, letting Boyscout set the pace with his 4 angry squirrels scampering away on the power wheel under hood. We topped off with fuel and coffee in Naches, and ran into Merrick Graves doing the same. From there we headed West on Hwy 410, taking a hard right onto FS-1701. A couple miles in, we stopped to air down:
The plan was simple: find a new route to the back side of the Funny/Moon Rocks area, drop from there over to the String trails, up Quartz Mountain, and then bomb down FS-31 into Ellensburg for a slushy. Well… After several attempts, we finally achieved the first of our goals, but the rest of the trip was planned on the fly. Overall, it couldn’t have turned out much better. We ended up running some trails we hadn’t been on in years, and found a few we hadn’t ever traversed at all. Best of all, it was just a beautiful day to be in the woods:
One of our first “wrongâ€
That looked like a ton 'o fun.
