Event was fun, always good to see everyone, even though we had rain... Here's the long and short of the past 2 days.
Friday night wasn't too late, but with the forecast for heavy rain, no one rushed to get up. Saturday, I got up close to 10am, and it was still raining outside. Around noon or so a group of us decided to head up to the Lodge for lunch. Of course, the rain got worse as we climbed the mountain, as did the visability from the fog. Lunch was quite good, and even a brief drying out, we heading back to the hotel. Even though the rain had basically let up, the fog was considerably worse. About 10 minutes after getting back to the hotel, it started pouring again... good timing.
Later in the afternoon (4pm?), a group took a chance on the clearing and went out for a ride. I actually waited it out, and left with a different group a few hours later for a good little ride. MotionBased GPS Map/Log is here. Had a nice steak dinner with about 12 others that night in town too.
Sunday: Most of us met downstairs about 8:15am or so to head out. I believe 4-6 (trailered) decided to stay and do some riding, since the weather was perfect. Most of the others headed back to Dallas, etc.
However, 3 of us decided to do a bit of both. We headed north, planning on adding about 250+ miles to our ride home, but getting home before dark. About 25 miles shy of Ozark, we stopped for gas at a little station, and as soon as I got off my bike.... out pours coolant everywhere! Seems I took a rock in the radiator. Luckilly, they had JB Weld, so while I did that we sat around for about 45 minutes, until I let the other 2 head on to Ozark for lunch. About an hour later, I decided I had waited long enough, and was just gonna get to Ozark. Met up with them on the way over there, and we stopped at the bridge under 40. Looked like the JB Weld was holding, but I also left the radiator cap off to keep the pressure down. I let them continue their path, and I started slabbing up 40. I had a friend coming up to meet me (Thanks Brick!), so regardless of what happened to me, I woulda had a ride. Ended up meeting him in Stringtown, and got home about 7pm. MotionBased GPS Map/Log is here.
Awesome riding today... too bad mine got cut short. All my pictures are here.
Temps started out in the upper 60's, and it hit mid 70's by the time we finished up around 1:30pm. Great weather for Albie, Matt and myself, even if we only did about 150 miles or so. Stopped at our great little mexican place for lunch in Leonard.
