Just a couple pictures from our last quad ride

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This area of SW utah varys a lot. We and another couple took a 50 mile ride a couple days ago. Here is a few snaps my wife theresa took. We had to wait awhile on the ride back down as a family was moveing their 1,200 sheep on our trail up to the high country.

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It is! Right now I am laid up with a bum knee. I get a operation a week from now. I can ride but promised theresa we wont go by ourselves. You can ride 10 minutes and if I broke down I would be in serious trouble trying to walk out! I once had to tow a friend out about 12 miles a couple years ago when a rock broke out his oil drain plug.
They tell me we are close to the best trails in the country here. The piute and other fine ATV trail systems are all near by. The guy across the street has 4 quads lined up for his family. Almost everyone around here owns a quad. It`s been a long winter and now at the end of it I tore up a knee! No justice! Here is a few more pictures at random from a couple quad rides. All within a hour. We live close to bryce canyon, cedar breaks and zion national parks.

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30 miles is more the norm for us cripples. We probley have only done 50ish 3 times or so. However many younger people probley do a 100 or more in a good day. We both find after 25 to 35 miles thats enough for the old bones. I suppose a side by side quad is more comfortable and easier to make miles on.
Speaking of rideing here, there is a outfit called SUWA that is trying to close off a lot of country here to 4 wheeling. I am just starting to get involved with another organisation, SUWA Files (yet another) Petition to Eliminate OHV use in Utah - BRC Action Alert U4wda, that is trying to save the trails being closed by the liberal hug a tree`s. To do it we are going to ride trails they claim dont exist, take pictures and GPS cordinates to prove that trails exist in those proposed areas they are wanting to close in utah. Hopefully I will be doing a lot of rideing and exploreing this year. Got to work with my knee though.
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Great pix, nice country --- keep a watchful eye on the tree-huggers, they're known to be completely unscrupulous and dishonest when it comes to defining "wilderness" and "roadless" areas. Here in AZ, I can show you physical barricades installed to prevent vehicles capable of freeway travel from crossing the boundaries into "Wilderness" areas (so designated by a clueless Congress) on existing roads that would still, decades later, support travel by street legal vehicles. There is no honor among the thieves of our rights to access our public lands...
 
Great pictures of this beautiful country of ours, Thank You for sharing.
Hope the knee problem gets taken care of soon.
 
feralmerril said:
30 miles is more the norm for us cripples. We probley have only done 50ish 3 times or so. However many younger people probley do a 100 or more in a good day. We both find after 25 to 35 miles thats enough for the old bones. I suppose a side by side quad is more comfortable and easier to make miles on.
Speaking of rideing here, there is a outfit called SUWA that is trying to close off a lot of country here to 4 wheeling. I am just starting to get involved with another organisation, SUWA Files (yet another) Petition to Eliminate OHV use in Utah - BRC Action Alert U4wda, that is trying to save the trails being closed by the liberal hug a tree`s. To do it we are going to ride trails they claim dont exist, take pictures and GPS cordinates to prove that trails exist in those proposed areas they are wanting to close in utah. Hopefully I will be doing a lot of rideing and exploreing this year. Got to work with my knee though.
Utah 4 Wheel Drive Association
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What Planet does these libels beam down from?
 
Hope the knee thing goes well; otherwise we'll lose a great tour
guide!
So, how will you layout the trails? Use a large scale map and all the GPS provided Lat., and Lon. for the turns and straight-away's/
Or is there a program available from the GPS maker that will mark your
locations on a digital map?
I sure hope you can stymie those dog-in-the-manger......never mind!
Best wishes for knee work, and Happy Trails! TACC1
 
Jimmyj, The green peace tree hugger type are romanced by the left. Unless you look deep, their arguments at first sound highly conservative, nobel and even plausable. The audubon society, national geographic society and many others always appealed to rich well meaning widows for endowments to use to stop the world. I went to a lumber and conservation tech school. We were taught conservation meant "The wise use of natural resources", not the stopping of the earth. They want to seal off access of most of the country. Probley many of the biggest activists never camped, hunted or even get off road. They might argue, well you are permitted to hike it. I have a tough time walking a 100 yards with my bad knees and there are many like me in even worse shape. Is life to stop for us because some 85 year old rich well meaning but deluded widows money is being funneled by the far left for "people control"?
These people are no doubt well meaning but are being used by the left to actualy hurt the nation by stopping all mineing, oil drilling, logging, farming etc by saying a frog or lizzard is more valuable than enriching our people. They want to drag our nation down to raise the thrid world up.
 
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