SledderSteve
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While recent dry weather conditions have dried up much of the mud, there is still fun to be had in what the locals call the "LaBrea Tar Pits" on trail 77 outside of Gile. The best way to take on the pits is to travel from Hurley towards Gile which allows you to cool your machine and/or body in the Montreal River.
The mud bog at Joanie's Sidekicks, affectionately known as "Joanie's Dirty Hole", appeared at first glance to all dried up. Joanie recently had some bad luck falling off a bar stool while attempting to do the pole in her bar but we're talking about the mud bog here. This writer soon learned that the dry crust was merely covering a seemingly bottomless pit of promordial ooze. It took two machines winching to get out of that one.
The Kodiak pilot in our group explained to me that I was doing it all wrong, more speed was required to glide smoothly across the top of the crust. He was wrong, twice, the second trip finding both rider and machine rolled into respective mudballs.
Film at Eleven
The mud bog at Joanie's Sidekicks, affectionately known as "Joanie's Dirty Hole", appeared at first glance to all dried up. Joanie recently had some bad luck falling off a bar stool while attempting to do the pole in her bar but we're talking about the mud bog here. This writer soon learned that the dry crust was merely covering a seemingly bottomless pit of promordial ooze. It took two machines winching to get out of that one.
The Kodiak pilot in our group explained to me that I was doing it all wrong, more speed was required to glide smoothly across the top of the crust. He was wrong, twice, the second trip finding both rider and machine rolled into respective mudballs.
Film at Eleven
