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"That enduro"...that was a disaster. I raced the state enduro circuit for a couple of decades. I was at that enduro with some friends who also raced the circuit. We all worked at a motorcycle shop, so our bikes seldom had mechanicals. The morning of the race, my bike would not start. No spark...later determined to be a dead ignition unit. In retrospect I was extremely lucky. Two of our guys had to leave their bikes out in the desert...came back in a week to retrieve...and one guy rode his back to camp on what was left of a rear wheel and no tire. That last guy was eventually a state open A champ.The changing weather in the desert is what makes it so intresting , the only unpleasant weather was one year in December when a southwest wind blew in with 60 mph gust , hot and dusty , and nowhere to escape from it . I was stuck inside my trailer for 10 hours waiting fo it to get blown over on its side . Only good thing was my door would have been on the high side had that happened . That’s when I knew my trailer with awning extended was capable of handling anything it will ever need to . Another year we had a light drizzle for 30 hours , I rode around in my truck checking out all the scenery , the wet water crossings on the road and 20 feet of rushing white foam and brown water in Terlingua creek . Probly the most entertaining was setting at Uncles a couple of days after the 6 inch snow in Terlingua watching somebody that had been staying on Reeds Platue trying to drive out through Long Draw , that was good for a couple hours and several beers . When the desert is wet you stay on the pavement . In the 80s when there used to be a enduro out there it snowed one year , all the riders were accounted for by midnight that night , there were still bikes in the desert a month latter , kinda glad I missed that one .
Did you do the race at Jayton in a heavy snow somewhere around 1980? They cut that one short at about the 2/3 mark, but it wasn't even close to the fiasco at Terlingua. I actually did well at that one. Fun days.