All Wheelers Off Road Club - Quartz Mountain Backroads Run November 7, 2009 Trail Boss: Ron Dunn This is an AWORC members run open to street legal 4x4 rigs only. All guest driving there own rigs must do by the Trail Etiquette rules. Ron Dunn is putting on a club backroads run to Quartz Mountain. The run begins in Ellensburg. Meet at McDonalds. Departure time is 10 AM. We will convoy ...

... -to-be singletrack. After the 90 minute hike we grabbed a snack, geared up, and headed out on the bikes for a tour of some backroads including the Darby Canyon FS road. Most of our singletrack is wet but the backroads are still good to ride In a total rookie move, I failed to eat enough and was bonking badly by the time I rolled in. Doh!

Back road curves around almost-dry mountain stream. Picnic tables and leaves at Augusta Springs on a drippy October day. Mountain stream has low water level. A mountain road to somewhere.... Fog and rain have hung over the Shenandoah Valley and surrounding mountain ridges for three days. Cold temps and rain are to continue through Sunday night with a chance of snow showers. Brightly- ...

My work buddy Gary was over in my area helping me wire up a safe a few minutes ago. Once he got done he told me about all of the work he still had to do before he could take off at 4:00 today. As he was walking away tried to inspire him a bit by saying "Keep F*ckin' that chicken." He laughed, and a thought occurred to me. Did that guy that said that on national TV get fired? I ...

Some people ride to socialize. For others every ride is a race. I've found self supporting day trips and bike camping to be the coolest rides of all. You don't have to depend on friends, clubs, or organizers to to map out a 30 mile route, 70 miler or whatever you feel like riding on a given day. One of the most important points I should make: Riding bicycles can be dangerous! I have been ...

... sloping salt glazed pipes, set in the pebble bank In bikinis and wellies we could rod them ourselves. And jump in the sea afterwards to get rid of the smells In 1989 we drove the backroads from Aberystwyth to Brighton by the sea to attend the bitter revisionism of the Conference of the Labour Party. We stopped at all the watercourses big and small We could smell and see ...