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LowTech | all galleries >> World Views >> Dirt Track Travels >> Riding the Draggin' > Scouting Mission
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02-Nov-2010

Scouting Mission

40 hours & 337 miles on the engine.

Today I take off to cross the desert on my way to the Colorado river. It's where I need to go to get a tag for this Mech Monster. It will be on dirt roads, and less, as much as possible.
On the way back I'll scout a way for us to take this winter when we leave the high desert for lower elevations.

First a run into town to top off the fuel tank, I expect to cover about 200 miles before I can fuel again. I spend the first part of the day weaving my way through the grid of dirt roads to the edge of development. There I catch a service road, following some buried gas lines, which leads me up a winding, and very soft, sand wash . . . no time to stop now . . . just keep it moving!
I almost top-out the pass when I intersect pavement and jump on it for a mile or so.
On the other side of the pass the service road straight-lines past the end of the mountains on a downhill grade cut by wash erosions coming from the side, some of these "cuts" were steep, deep, and sandy.. The road dropped into the valley and up the other side.
Once on the other side of the valley I find a rail-line that should be paralleling the gravel road that runs the length of the valley. After a few false starts I find the road and soon discover that it's been "washboarded" massively by high speed travel. I end up choosing the service road for the rail-line and only have to deal with going in & out of dry washes.

That evening I find a nice little pull-off just after crossing through a short pass with the rail-line.


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