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Advice from a noob.
Started January 26, 2008 @ 6:31pm by dagwood
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| Advice from a noob. | January 26, 2008 @ 6:31pm | BC, The 3 hills coming out of Kent Gulch are pretty tough (but not impossible) to climb when its wet and/or frozen. What wasn't frozen had axle grease or some kind of slippery snot under the leaves.
Wheuuuu, not my idea of a good ride.... where's a helecopter when you need one?? |
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wfopete
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| January 26, 2008 @ 10:17pm | Poor Noob. Go down the wrong trail on the wrong day by yourself at BC and you can earn extended stay points! My advice is to take a friend or three along, it may not make things much easier but at least you will all share the misery...I mean fun together. Plus someone may bring a camera for future visual enjoyment.
Pete Petrick
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| January 27, 2008 @ 7:53am | Well, luckly, I had my soninlaw with me, or else I'd still be there now.
BTW, Saw JGAS up there, are you guys sure Jeff has a home?? I think meybe he might live outa that black trailer thats always behind him as he wanders around BC area. We might wanta check this out.... |
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wfopete
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| January 27, 2008 @ 8:08am | One day we tried to put a radio chip in the back of his neck like they do on dogs for tracking purposes. Nobody wanted to get that close to him.
Pete Petrick
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| February 7, 2008 @ 8:43pm | I was wondering what that bump on the back of my neck was. I clawed at it like a dog does a tick, and a little funny looking plastic thing with tiny wires came out. Here I thought it was Aliens, and it was Pete that did it. Well, Pete is a Yankee, that's kind of an Alien.
Dagwood, if you climbed Kent's Gulch, you had to climb Loosey II, now named Wilson Hill to get there. You climbed two of the toughest hills at BC. I've seen AA riders not make it up either hill without several trys. Last time I tried Wilson Hill, it took me several tries.
You dun good! So did you're son in law. Those hills have made quite a few people never return to BC. |
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Last Edit: February 7, 2008 @ 8:48pm by jgas | |
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| February 7, 2008 @ 11:37pm | Well dagwood 'ol noob, you aint the first one to get stuck in Kent's Gulch: That would Kent, or "Pig Man" as most knew him.
Pig Man was all alone that day, KTM 300, bald tires and a pounding rain storm. He was stuck for over two hours and couldn't climb out either way.
It is physically impossable for him to push a bike up a hill because he is a little short, like his chin maybe comes up to his cut down seat.
I rode in there a few days later and saw broken pieces of white KTM plastic all over. Pig Man being the only one I knew of with a white KTM I figured it was his carnage.
I called him and he fessed up.
Thus the name "Kent's Gulch".
Jeffo is "the man in black (trailer)"
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| February 8, 2008 @ 5:22pm | Now to make all of us look bad: I climbed it one day by myself after seeing fresh mountain bike tracks headed that way. When I got to the top, there was a big group of out of state Mtn bikers resting at the trail junction at the top of Kent's Gulch. Most looked pretty beat, but two, a husband and wife from Colorado looked like they did it every day, which they did. They were Pros from Colorado. They both RODE up Loosey II/Wilson/Kent's Gulch on Mtn bikes! The others had to push and carry.
It was almost dark, and their truck was parked right at the wooden bridge on Everett's Loop on the road. No way they were going to make it back by dark, except for the Pro couple. So I told the slower group how to get back down the ATV trail to the main road, and told the Pros to head back down the trail towards their truck while I went back and loaded up to meet them at their truck, so we could go together to pick up the slow group.
I hurried back to camp, loaded quickly, drove to their truck, and they were just popping out of the woods! They rode back on the trails that fast on bicycles.
Every time I flounder and flop on Wilson I think of that and feel like a wimp. |
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Last Edit: February 8, 2008 @ 5:25pm by jgas | |
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