June 15-16-17 anywhere 2 hours or so away from Red Deer...

[tex78]

I'd love to go for a day ride but have work to do...

sent from my htc

 

[whoDEANie]

Turns out Dean is a hell of a salesman. He's sold me on the longer drive. I'll be heading down that way too.

Man, you should have seen what I had to go through to get a commitment out of Chad. ...threatened to start calling him at 2am.

 

[dodgeguy]

Had a great day ride....this included one quad attempting to be a boat, (completely swamped) water levels were a little higher than usual! I had a slight mishap...lol, I am underestimating the seriousness of what happened...suffice to say @ 30MPH when travelling down a road and a ball joint goes (my bad, patched it twice and SHOULD have stopped to recheck) a '99 AC 500 will do quite an interesting dance on it's front tires @ a 45 degree angle, but won't quite flip.....came close though*PHEW*

But for the record the old AC did pull the swamped quad back to shore....

AGAIN thanks to everyone who helped, and stayed to make sure everything was ok...GREATLY appreciated!! All y'all ROCK!!

 

[kokanee 800]

so butch you do the loop or just ride to the east?

Aprox how many km's into cutoff creek off the tunk road and how is the road? also which direction is best to ride? if you keep riding west will you just hit the north/south trail and loop around? thanks i want to learn another area and never been.

 

[Mik-B]

Had a great day ride....this included one quad attempting to be a boat, (completely swamped) water levels were a little higher than usual! I had a slight mishap...lol, I am underestimating the seriousness of what happened...suffice to say @ 30MPH when travelling down a road and a ball joint goes (my bad, patched it twice and SHOULD have stopped to recheck) a '99 AC 500 will do quite an interesting dance on it's front tires @ a 45 degree angle, but won't quite flip.....came close though*PHEW*

But for the record the old AC did pull the swamped quad back to shore....

AGAIN thanks to everyone who helped, and stayed to make sure everything was ok...GREATLY appreciated!! All y'all ROCK!!

It was a good day. Glad everyone made it home safely (albeit, their quads need some work).

I captured a bit of the fun with my GoPro. Take a look at the video here, but be gentle, it's my first attempt at editing video.

Thanks again, everyone. Looking forward to riding with you guys again.

 

[whoDEANie]

Damn! That trail must be cursed. I tried it last year and someone got hurt about 3/4 of the way there, so we had to turn around. Then a month ago, we actually made it, but the round trip took us about 10 hours due to a sport quad with broken tie rods. Then yesterday, we only made it 12km in before swamping King_Zuki.

Regardless, I still had a hoot. Good riding with you again DodgeGuy and really nice to meet you Mik-B and Dexx29. ...looking forward to riding with you again.

Here's a half decent pic of King_Floatie. Good thing that quad box was buoyant!!!

 

[whoDEANie]

Aprox how many km's into cutoff creek off the tunk road and how is the road? also which direction is best to ride? if you keep riding west will you just hit the north/south trail and loop around? thanks i want to learn another area and never been.

We staged on 752, probably about 10km after it turns to gravel. From there we rode west on a forestry road for about 8-10km before making a left turn into the bush and crossing the creek(s). It's actually only about 25-30km from the staging area to the river and we just double back - no loop that I know of. All I really know about the area is that one trail which was shown to me by Jim and Chris. Apparently, if we head right off that forestry road (instead of left) there are some falls burried somewhere in there.

If you PM me your e-mail address, I can send you a gps map of the route from the stagin area to the Ramm river.

 

[whoDEANie]

Had a great day ride....this included one quad attempting to be a boat, (completely swamped) water levels were a little higher than usual! I had a slight mishap...lol, I am underestimating the seriousness of what happened...suffice to say @ 30MPH when travelling down a road and a ball joint goes (my bad, patched it twice and SHOULD have stopped to recheck) a '99 AC 500 will do quite an interesting dance on it's front tires @ a 45 degree angle, but won't quite flip.....came close though*PHEW*

But for the record the old AC did pull the swamped quad back to shore....

AGAIN thanks to everyone who helped, and stayed to make sure everything was ok...GREATLY appreciated!! All y'all ROCK!!

A good kick in the pants for us not to neglegt our maintenance, eh? ....luckily the lesson didn't cost you any broken bones. I know I'll defiantely be giving my machines a once over now.

 

[imdoo'n]

Aprox how many km's into cutoff creek off the tunk road and how is the road? also which direction is best to ride? if you keep riding west will you just hit the north/south trail and loop around? thanks i want to learn another area and never been.

get yerself a pluz map from forestry, some areas don't open till july 1 and most area's west of the trunk road have trail restrictions, u must stay on trails only. sure sucks having to pay fines instead of picking up a map. they are also on the srd web site.

 

[whoDEANie]

get yerself a pluz map from forestry, some areas don't open till july 1 and most area's west of the trunk road have trail restrictions, u must stay on trails only. sure sucks having to pay fines instead of picking up a map. they are also on the srd web site.

I checked the maps before we left after being asked if there was some kind of restriction in this area. We were considerabley east of the FLUZ zones in that area, so it looks like we were OK ...other than having to ride about 8km on a forestry road that was gated and closed for public use, which we didn't realize until after we needed to get a tow vehicle in there only to find a locked gate and a sign.

 

[kokanee 800]

get yerself a pluz map from forestry, some areas don't open till july 1 and most area's west of the trunk road have trail restrictions, u must stay on trails only. sure sucks having to pay fines instead of picking up a map. they are also on the srd web site.

I have the big horn map , its open in Cutoff, just wondering how many km's into there from the trunk road?

 

[tex78]

It was a good day. Glad everyone made it home safely (albeit, their quads need some work).

I captured a bit of the fun with my GoPro. Take a look at the video here, but be gentle, it's my first attempt at editing video.

Thanks again, everyone. Looking forward to riding with you guys again.

all i can say is chest waders ......

 

[RhinoWhino]

I have the big horn map , its open in Cutoff, just wondering how many km's into there from the trunk road?

Its about 20km to the Cuttoff creek sign .

 

[kokanee 800]

Its about 20km to the Cuttoff creek sign .

thank you,

 

[imdoo'n]

I checked the maps before we left after being asked if there was some kind of restriction in this area. We were considerabley east of the FLUZ zones in that area, so it looks like we were OK ...other than having to ride about 8km on a forestry road that was gated and closed for public use, which we didn't realize until after we needed to get a tow vehicle in there only to find a locked gate and a sign.

cool glad you got the maps, makes life easier, gates can be a pain alright. sounds like you guys where in the boundary area.

 

[dodgeguy]

A good kick in the pants for us not to neglegt our maintenance, eh? ....luckily the lesson didn't cost you any broken bones. I know I'll defiantely be giving my machines a once over now.

Ummm yeah...no more lazy days when all could have been avoided with a ten minute bolt replacement, lesson well learned....gonna go through my entire front end for now!!

 

[dodgeguy]

It was a good day. Glad everyone made it home safely (albeit, their quads need some work).

I captured a bit of the fun with my GoPro. Take a look at the video here, but be gentle, it's my first attempt at editing video.

Thanks again, everyone. Looking forward to riding with you guys again.

AWESOME video Mike!! Lookin forward to ridin again with ya!! Maybe even put on some more mileage next eh....?!?! hahaha

 

[dodgeguy]

Just a few moments after the "incident"....Looks expensive but really just the upper ball joint snapped off...

I had been riding on the other side of the road....with a fairly steep treed drop off!