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Thank you Ken for the report, as always I take way too few pictures, and say way too little. But, this was a great overnighter. Ken riding down Mengel Pass. Striped Butte from the Geologist Cabin which by the way was unoccupied at that time. Striped Butte, Butte Valley.

Bryan, My friend Jim Gary pointed me towards XLADV after some photos from the Overland expo near Flagstaff AZ this month. Something I would have gone to if I was still in AZ or had any vacation left over. Eric, if the ride is not too challenging, I am up for it. Is there a local group that might convene for bike maintenance or tall tales over beer?

So for the past few weeks a small group of us had planned to ride up and overnight in Sequoia National Park. About a week ahead of time the forecast starts to look pretty iffy.... By Thursday they were getting snow with cold temps and a mix of rain/freezing rain predicted for the weekend during our trip!!!! So instead some last minute route crunching on the part of Orbel along with work and family commitments for others we decide to detour to Death Valley instead. We found temps ranging from 45F all the way up to 90F over the 2 days we were on the road and had an absolute blast on a very quiet trip. We departed up Hwy 2 to Angels forest and up to the 14. From there we headed through Mohave and then CalCity where we took off down a whooped out dirt road for a good ways cutting out to the road into Trona From Trona it was a quick fuel stop and cruise up to Ballarat Ghost town where we had a cold coke and then proceded into Death Valley up through Coyote Canyon I believe.

Was Orbel's idea, and a good time. We left down Lippincott Pass, another challenging way for big bikes, but should be doable going up if you watch your lines and keep a bit of momentum.

I will see if I can make it but have a lot of stuff coming up.