OT: photos of interest - not specifically about moto

[moosehead]

[ckcarr]

[Bob Hancock]

Beautiful. Is that an Anastasi kiva?

[ckcarr]

Thanks Bob. No it's not Anasazi. No one's sure what it is, just what it's not.

[macfly]

Funnily enough it looks like the spot that was on the cover of Outdoor Photography about thre months back.

[ckcarr]

Originally Posted by macfly

Funnily enough it looks like the spot that was on the cover of Outdoor Photography about thre months back.

It was. That was a Tom Till shot that comes up every couple years.
Everything here ends up on the cover of OP eventually it seems.

Funny you remembered that!

[Steve Carlton]

Our Men's Club meets there first Thursday of every month for a bonfire and peyote. We all get naked, put on our war paint, eat a deer raw, and sing songs. If we are fortunate and our prayers are answered, Red Rangler Man shows up at dawn with his shiny glass to greet us. He is shy and runs away when we approach, but we hope to meet this strange god one day...

[Bob Hancock]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Our Men's Club meets there first Thursday of every month for a bonfire and peyote. We all get naked, put on our war paint, eat a deer raw, and sing songs. If we are fortunate and our prayers are answered, Red Rangler Man shows up at dawn with his shiny glass to greet us. He is shy and runs away when we approach, but we hope to meet this strange god one day...

I heard you took a dump in the kiva. Not nice, Steve. Not nice.

[Steve Carlton]

Who told you that? That is our most sacred ceremony! After a small handful of peyote, it releases the demon spirits.

[ckcarr]

Red Rangler man thinks you left a chocolate milk carton and twinkee wrapper there...

Steve, that was the requested hike by the FM moderator so I took him there.

[macfly]

Funny you remembered that!

Love Outdoor Photography, along with B&W its my favorite photo mag, they have by far the best gear reviews. I have a stack of them in the throne room here, so whenever I take a nice long dump I get to look at great pictures, and dream about living far from the madding crowd!

[Bob Hancock]

Supposed to get down to 49F tonight so I thought I'd have the last fire of the season.

[MaineRoads]

Originally Posted by Bob Hancock

Supposed to get down to 49F tonight so I thought I'd have the last fire of the season.

I've had the last fire about ten times now. Crappy spring.

[wswartzwel]

The Arkansas Dirt Riders club that I am a member of had our yearly Train Robbers Enduro. However this year was a National event. Amazing at how fast the national level riders can get through the woods.

NEPG website... http://www.nationalenduro.com/

Thad Duvall


Mike Lafferty


Rick Smits from the Indiana Pacers... The guy is well over 7 feet tall. Has taken up enduro riding..

[shreddr]

Cool William! when i was a mx racer i had a couple of local friends who were enduro riders, Drew Smith and Fred Hoess, both of those guys have won multiple gold medals in ISDE. I could wax em on the track, but their speed in the woods was sick!

[wswartzwel]

The woods were dark and we had rain most of the day. There were more than a few pro photographers there.

I will have to spend some bucks to get pictures like this guy's



http://tandenews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/trainrobber_8-25.jpg

[ckcarr]

Originally Posted by wswartzwel

The woods were dark and we had rain most of the day. There were more than a few pro photographers there.

I will have to spend some bucks to get pictures like this guy's

Nah!
Just normal photography outlays. The perfect lens for that would be the little Nikon 35mm dx f/1.8g as he is shooting at 35mm and f/3.2. It can be found for around $199. The other one you would want is the new (not released yet) Nikon 50mm f/1.8g. Again $199 or so.

[bradzdotcom]

the ktm guy (#21) sure isn't having a good time.
a not-so-sano creek crossing is never fun, plus his goggles are MIA, which he'll probably pay for on down the trail...
the only good thing about all-day-rain enduros is that under all those clothes...you're waterproof.
once you're soaking wet down to the skin, it doesn't matter anymore. it's getting to that point that used to drive me nuts.

[wswartzwel]

The check I worked was at the end of the second special test. Some guys were pissed, others just wanted to know how to get home. The KTM factory reps sent all their riders to a nearby recharging facility set up about 500 yards from the check. We had a zig zag of check ribbon set up to slow them down after they passed the transponder so we could get a visual on their number plates for back up scoring. Lafferty almost landed in the EZ up with us. No one had their goggles, Some of the younger non pro riders had hollow eyes, and just wanted to be out of the woods.

Some guys were hooting and shouting having a good time, but I don't think they were serious contenders.

[bradzdotcom]

yep, the "death glare". been there, not fun, it's semi-comatose.

the pissed ones are usually unprepared for the difference between regular races and rain runs. definitely not the same thing and the prep from tire pressure to suspension and gearing settings are usually different.

the difference between guys like Mikey and the non-pros, is that mikey "almost landed" in the EZ up. most of the fast guys spend the whole day doing "almosts" and "pert-nears" as oppposed to the other option.

if you're not having a good time in a rain race, then you aren't gonna win. grumpy guys rarely take home the top spot.

one of the tricks dick burleson taught me in muddy, rain rides was to always do or say something that the scoring crew will remember. a comment, a giant gesture, clapping....anything that they'll remember in case your number doesn't get scored would always help.
in one massive mudder event we came out of a long, gnarly, butt-kickin' special test that you thought would never end.
at the check out i said "hey that warm-up was fun. is this where the hard part starts?"
the officials had to go back to the scoring group at that checkpoint and verify that they remembered me, since i didn't show up on the score charts.

no goggles sucks. does barrifaldi still make those clear toss-away rain glasses? they always worked well.