Smokey Bear 🐻 Cloudcroft NM Ride, Annual Ride Reports

[jsb]

Missed it again. Setting a reminder for July 2022.

 

[StromXTc]

Rode hard and put up wet. We are not in the dealership parking lot any more Toto.

 

[sanderjavant]

Day 0

Keith recovered well, and rode the rest of the week.

 

[Kshaw]

I looked like a beached whale. Funny enough I sprained the opposite wrist two days later. Can’t wait to go back. Need a presmokey bear or Smokey bear 2.0

 

[jwaller]

I looked like a beached whale. Funny enough I sprained the opposite wrist two days later. Can’t wait to go back. Need a presmokey bear or Smokey bear 2.0

My week off in October is October 9-17. I'm game. I can haul an extra bike or few in my trailer and have bed space in the camper for a couple riders.

 

[sanderjavant]

I'm working on a fall plan...in the oven... Fall colors are petty, nice Aspens. Stay tuned...

2013 October ride on the Rim Trail on this ride - https://www.twtex.com/forums/threads/guadalupe-rim-road-ride-to-cloudcroft-and-back.90392/

 

[Kshaw]

I’m about 75% sure I can go.

 

[sanderjavant]

I would still like to get in another CC ride, possibly October, but since Sipapu is at the top of the state, weather-wise it's first - https://www.twtex.com/forums/thread...hurs-9-23-21-sat-9-25-21.128112/#post-1780483

 

[Mudclod]

Bell Canyon road might well have been my fave. Except for being on the east side of the forest and catching rain every day.

 

[picco]

Great pictures ,thank you!

 

[Mudclod]

Russia Canyon and Presteridge road area were particularly awesome.

 

[Johnf3]

Good pictures Mudclod. Crazy green. Usually the meadow at the low end of Lucas Canyon is gray-green. Early this week, the road to Bluff Springs washed completely out at the spot where Water Canyon Road intersects with it. Took out a car too--was buried up to the wheels in mud.

 

[Mudclod]

Good pictures Mudclod. Crazy green. Usually the meadow at the low end of Lucas Canyon is gray-green. Early this week, the road to Bluff Springs washed completely out at the spot where Water Canyon Road intersects with it. Took out a car too--was buried up to the wheels in mud.

Thank you. Yes it rained each day if I recall correctly. Several of us got caught out 15 miles or so and got drenched, twice for me.

 

[Mudclod]

A little single track stoke on the Rim Trail.

 

[Mudclod]

A few parting shots from a great week.

 

[Mudclod]

I can’t thank this guy enough for making it all happen!

 

[_RG_]

Brother Mudclod been huffin that pure mountain air.

 

[Mudclod]

Brother Mudclod been huffin that pure mountain air.

I could learn to love it quite easily!

 

[sanderjavant]

From our friend motochutya.

 

[sanderjavant]

I just talked to two female riders from Austin with dirty bikes in the back of their truck at Family Dollar.

One has a Sherco 300, the other a Beta XTrainer.

Both rode all the way up Heart Attack today!

 

[TOE JAM]

I just talked to two female riders from Austin with dirty bikes in the back of their truck at Family Dollar.

One has a Sherco 300, the other a Beta XTrainer.

Both rode all the way up Heart Attack today!

Drop by if you’re in town.

 

[Rydah]

I really need to make one of these one day.

 

[sanderjavant]

Drop by if you’re in town.

We will, glad to see you at home yesterday when we drove by on the way to Rio Penasco to check out the flood damage.

 

[StromXTc]

Lincoln Forest hangover. Strange thing, it is most pronounced at 40 mph but on up past 50 you can't even feel it. Took it up to 90 and it seems okay but I'm not going to let it stand, will be stripping that front and shipping it off to Woody's Wheels.

 

[sanderjavant]

Happy day in the woods, circa 2019.