Florenc ATV Trip (Sept 27th and 28th)

Well, Dave and I got up @ 4:30, dragged ourselves to the prepacked trucks w/Quads and started the drive to Florence from Cornelius. We took 26 to 217 to I5. It took almost 4 hours with a stop for breakfast in Eugene at the Ye Olde Pancake House. It was a local version of Shari's and was quite good. After chowing down we headed to Florence South Jetty. We got to a 2 acre property owned by Dave's coworked Stan. We met up with Ed, Stans neighbor, and he mentioned the day use parking lot was filling up fast so we turned around and parked at the second day use staging area with all our gear. Ed, Stan's neighbor is 75 years old and has two 400ex quads. He loaded up and followed us to the parking site. We unloaded and hit the dunes. Ed showed us around all morning and ran some pretty cool trails. We broke for lunch and chowed down on sandwiches and cheese puff's which, Bitzy, Ed's dog, thouroughly enjoyed as well. We hit the dunes again and Ed rolled his quad on the second tree island south of S. Jetty. I thought the worst. Dave and I rushed over on our quads and help him up along with the quad. Ed was fine. His 75 year old bones were in better shape than mine I tell you. This guy was amazing. I hope I am still able to ride a quad at 75.
We finished up the day portion of our ride around 4:30 ish and headed back to setup camp. Stan's camp site resembled a waste recycling facillity complete with old trailers and spare parts from various unfinished projects. I can't complain, it was close and free! We setup camp tents and dining canopy and headed out around 6:45 for a night ride. Wow, I have never done a night ride on a quad and I am not sure I will again. It was pretty wild. You couldn't see over the approaching drop off, "Razor Backs" as they are called, so it made for an interesting ride. We rode till we were about to get kicked out around 10:00 pm and got out of there before they locked the gate.
Back at camp we had a few drinks, burgers, and enjoyed the raging camp fire for a few hours. At roughly midnight I think we decided to crash. I just want to say that all air matresses SUCK! I have yet to find one that doesn't leak! Needless to say after a rough nights sleep I woke up to a coyote and a black dog barking and howling. After the mutts left we got up and hit the dunes again. This time we were a bit sore from the previous rides but we still ripped it up pretty good. Old Ed had to get goin as he ran out of gas and flipped over to reserve so we followed him out. Dave and I packed up camp and headed for home. We stopped at good old Dairy Queen for a healthy lunch and made in home around 5:30 ish.

Florence Quad Trip (Solv run) 2008

Today I woke up at 5:30 and smacked the alarm snooze button. Ten minutes later the insistent noise returned so I got out of bed. Did the usual morning hygene and met up with Dan in the Cornelius Fred Meyer parking lot @ 6:00 am. Almost four hours later we were at the South Jetty near Florence. We grabbed our Solv trash bags and headed out for a few hours picking up garbage.
Then the fun began. After riding around aimlessly for an hour and some change a subset of the original group got to have some real fun. We ran all over the South Jetty to Driftwood II campground. What a blast. I had been there before but it was so windy it was hard to make heads or tails of anything. We ran up so pretty steep bowls and tree shots as well as hit some pretty cool jumps. We basically started jumping the south side of all the razor backs. We had two Raptor 700's, one 660, and a Honda 400 with us. Nobody got hurt and we didnt' even have a wreck. Fun was had by all.

Fixed the website

Ok, I found an old server in a closet and low and behold it had an old backup of wheeln from 2004. It didn't have everything but that is ok. I had the videos and that is what I wanted. Of course this isn't before I rerendered everything last week but it still saves me time making the shortened and compressed vids for the web. :) Cool, I am so happy.

Anyway, check out the old vids if you care.

Thanks
Jarrod