Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:09:55 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: trip report, Portland, Oregon>Bishop, Ca. return.
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I know, like the pix we just saw of the two guys celebrating their 65th by
riding at 10,000 feet! Jeez, I haven't looked that good since I was 45.
:)
I just wanted to make sure I'm comparing apples to apples, van-weight-wise.
.
On 9/25/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Fishing for Don's weight? He's a cyclist. Probably weighs 145 dripping
> wet. You've seen those guys. Has 26-inch hips.
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
> On 9/25/2007 11:31 AM Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
> > Sounds like good fun, except for the alternator part.
> >
> > Was that weight with driver aboard?
> >
> > Thanks, Jake
> >
> > On 9/25/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
> >> Just had a wonderful trip to the Eastern Sierras in California. From
> >> Southeastern Wa. state down the high desert, through the Reno Carson
> >> valley
> >> and to Bishop, California for another bicycle race.
> >> First day out, I camped at a BLM campground off US 395 just northeast
> of
> >> Susanville, Ca after about 9 hours on the road, with one detour, an
> hour
> >> on
> >> my bike to keep my legs loose. Odd campsite, up high on a juniper
> mesa,
> >> with only the campground host there and some snow on the ground from an
> >> early fall weather system I was playing tag with all weekend.. The 84
> >> with
> >> inline 4 1.8 liter ran great, the abbreviated westy interior worked
> >> perfectly to give me a good rest for the next day.
> >> Down 395 again, through Reno and it's normal traffic jam, right at
> the
> >> morning rush hour. Thousands of Harleys on 395...no exaggeration. The
> >> trees were still fully leaved, just starting to yellow. There were
> >> spectacular thundershowers around, spewing snow and rain, putting a
> full
> >> white cap on the peaks of the Sierras. Not exactly what I was wanting
> to
> >> see for our bicycle race, which involved climbing up the highest paved
> >> roads
> >> out of the Bishop area..
> >> Camped at Brown's Town Campground just south of Bishop at around 4pm,
> >> Friday evening, just in time to pick up my race entry, mix up all my
> food
> >> and drink for the race's early start, and hit the sack to listen to the
> >> rain
> >> and hail on my van's roof...A nice commercial campground, interesting
> to
> >> watch the urban campers from LA showing the cattle to their
> kids...."Look
> >> at
> >> that, Jason, that is a C.O.W......Like what you get at McDonalds.."
> >> Camped there again Sat. nite, then down to Big Pine for Sunday's
> racing,
> >> which took us up to the base of the glaciers north of Mt. Whitney,
> then
> >> to
> >> the rim of Death Valley across the Owens Valley and then up to another
> >> mountain top finish amongst some ancient Bristlecone pines..
> >> Back in the van Sunday at around 2pm and headed north, quite a bit
> more
> >> tuckered out. Planned on spending some time flyfishing near Paisley,
> Or.
> >> on
> >> the return, but my alternator quit. That saga in another thread.
> >> Weighed the van at a weigh station and saw 4100lbs total, with 1900
> rear
> >> and 2100 front, full travel mode...
> >> A very fun outing. Learned a lot about electrics on the van, and
> became
> >> intimately acquainted with all the mountain side road in the Owens
> Valley
> >> of
> >> N. California's Eastern Sierras..
> >> Don Hanson
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jake
> > 1984 Vanagon GL
> > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> > www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> >
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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