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Another great overview of the Trailmax Raid… Some more nuance and detail. One thing I picked up on is when he calls this maybe a 70% road/50% dirt. It actually is quite amazing on pavement. Better than a 50/50 and better than you’d expect. Another is by calling this merely 50% dirt (keep in mind that’s Europe; here they say 60%) I think they sell themselves shorts. I beat the hell out of these at High Sierra and they were fantastic. Never let me down. Don’t think I could say the same (off road) for the Missions. To be fair though, I’ve never pushed the Missions off road that hard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Interesting video from the UK on Dunlop’s line of ADV tires. It calls the Mission tire 70/30 dirt/street! The US positions it as 50/50. So another reason they chose to call the Raid 60/40 dirt/street here. It points out that these designations are rather arbitrary and vary country to country. Trust your experience.

My take on this year's Rally is up at YT. The movie presents video, pictures, narration and music... “Heaven” by The Psychedelic Furs and “The Rain Song” by Led Zep. Subscribe and Comment at Youtube! 👍

Thank you Eric for all the effort you put in to get this rally up & going. It was a smaller but great rally. The weather was different but made for an unusual beautiful atmosphere in the area. It was a pleasure working with you & thank you for all the support. Hope we can get it together for next year. paul

So good. Year after year this ride always keeps me yearning for more. You can spend a lifetime exploring this area. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think my favorite image is this one that must be seen on a large monitor to truly appreciate

Big thanks to those who helped pull this off: @pceire32, @motochefarwi, Jonathan Dawson and more. That cold I had wiped me out as it seemed to @greedyg too. Hope no one else got it. sorry I missed that ride Saturday but @Brentowanted to do Silver Canyon but not solo. the weather was som amazing! Never seen it that cool in the day nor that mild in the morning. And the rain Saturday made for perfect trail conditions! It was cool seeing all the lakes full too. And no wildfire smoke! really enjoyed the tacos and hope others did as well. Hard to find an authentic Mexican taco here in Colombia so I was in heaven.

Photos in the gallery now. share your photos and stories over in the ride report.

Photos by @Stephen Gregory can be found in the gallery. Some great ones as usual..

I've asked Stephen to put these in the gallery instead. Stand by

Stephen Gregory took all the sick photos and on top of that rode some new High Sierras tracks. Thanks for the great shots. Oh did we mention the how epic the weather was up in the elevation too? Awesome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@Stephen Gregory Thank you for coming!!

@Stephen Gregory Great images! I'll use some for my coming video. 😊

some epic shots as always @Stephen Gregory

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Jairo came from El Salvador just for the rally which I thought was cool. He and I have some mutual friends from my trip through there in 2021. he sent me these pics…

Post your pics, videos and stories here! We will have photos from Stephen Gregory (Gregory Imagery) shortly in the gallery. My observations…. Really happy to see lots of old friends and make new ones. We had about 28 people this year and lots of ideas thrown around on how to increase that next year but it will hinge on two things I think: I need volunteers and will be promoting the event via Google ads vs FB/Instagram. When you post on the socials with your content, please tag #xladvhighsierra2023 My experience: very different weather this year! Our first rain Saturday morning and temps were much cooler in the day as well as much warmer (upper 40’s) in the morning. I was impressed with these new Trailmax Raid tires from Dunlop. Had them in both deep sand and well as steep rocky climbs. Food was super hard to come by for this particular weekend but the street tacos were super delicious, imho. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got home yesterday at about 4:00 totally exhausted [emoji1787]. Slept 12 hours. Lost $85 but it’s all good. Heads up! Please post your pics/videos in the Ride Report thread and not here. Thanks [emoji120] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I get my insurance with either Baja Bound or Lewis & Lewis. Get it online then print it out. You’re supposed to get a tourist visa at the aduana but I never do for Baja Norte. I’ve never been asked for it. San Flippy I usually stay at Kiki’s. They have rooms or you can camp too. From there is great beach riding south for like 30 miles but watch the tides. A good days ride south is Gonzaga. Many stay at Alfonso’s but you need to reserve in advance and they’re not always that trustworthy in my experience. Read my review on Google maps. After that I usually go a bit further south then north on the main Hwy to Cataviña. Nice hotel there. Then El Rosario (cactus inn). Then like Erendira (coyote cal’s) Message me your email and I can send you tracks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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