Took Another Ride

We took another ride yesterday. This time we went up to Kilamacue Lake, in the Elkhorn Range of mountains. The trail going up there was made mostly by horses and mules over the years. It has some extremely rocky and narrow stretches and has some, what we would call pretty "Technical" parts as far as motorcycle riding goes. The only motorcycles that could possibly make it into there are "Observed Trials" motorcycles like we have. There are lots of dead trees that have fallen over the trail in places. What you can't go around you have to go OVER. Here are some pictures from the ride.

































There was a fire going in the area and this guy was hauling a bucket to drop water with. He was hauling the bucket going in, but he dropped it off somewhere and in these two pictures he's going back out without it and all you can see is the cable he was hauling it with.




And here's the lake.









Jim

Thats just some pretty country there.....I bet it looks awsome in winter too.

That is some beautiful pics , thanks

That sure looks like some nice country, bet the fishing in that lake is good too.

nice pics Jim

Hey Buddy That Is Some Awesome Country There I Really Hope To Get Out There To See It Some Time We Have Relatives In Washington. Hey I Was Always Going To Ask You, Is There A Big Temp Change When You Guy's Get Up That High. O.H. Yea Have You Ever Fished That Lake If So What Did Ya Catch.

To answer your first question Mike, yes there is a big change in the temperature. It can be hotter than blazes down here in the valley, and a lot of the time we go for a ride just to get the heck out of here and get up there where it's a lot cooler. Sometimes there can be as much as a 20 degree difference in the temperature.

And for your second question, no I have never fished it and neither has Ray. We did see some trout in it though. And there are a lot of little trout in the 5 to 6 inch range down below in the creek that comes out of the lake. They are Rainbow Trout.

Jim

YUM YUM YUM Trout Are Some Tasty Fish, I Forgot To Ask Did That Helicopter Lose His Bucket Then.

Apparently Mike, he dropped it off somewhere. Ray said he saw him going in the other direction while we were riding up to the lake, and he said that the helicopter had the big bucket on the end of the cable then. I didn't see him at that time. But when he came back out all you could see was the cable with a big round ball on the end, which was probably a weight like they use on cranes and things like that. I guess that doesn't mean that he didn't lose it, but I doubt it. He may have been taking it and dropping it off in LaGrande where most of the firefighting is done from. The Unatilla National Forest Headquarters is in LaGrande.


Jim