Hooligan wrote:Waiparous / Ghost area is also good. There are decent quad trails there that are not polluted with gigantic puddles (unlike the McLean Creek quad trails).
I barely know that area and don't have a clue where to go. I know the Ghost Dam, as it is a popular spot for bikers to stop and reconnoiter before heading to Canmore/Banff on the Hwy 1A. In my truck, I have taken the Waiparous Hwy 40 turnoff north and followed it up to the Sundrie turnoff. There is some beautiful landscape up there asking to be explored offroad!
Yes, I noticed, two Sundays ago, days before I purchased my Yamaha TT-R230, when I scouted the McClean Creek area in my truck, that the trails out there were mud-filled bogs. I could see that they needed a week or so to dry out enough to become useable.
As I drove in from the west on the Hwy 66, I could see a massive cloud of rising smoke and I thought there must be a forest fire, but it turned out to be a dust cloud generated by the hordes
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The area was like a zoo! I thought McClean Creek might be better visited on a weekday
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Fischer Creek seemed a little calmer?
I can't wait to try some of these places out!!!
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I had commitments yesterday and thought today might be a possibility, but I am still not comfortable
at all with my skinny little tailgate ramp. I rolled the bike up it last night and got the bike just to the uppermost hump on the ramp where it flattens out to the tailgate. I could have gotten it into the box, but the thought of dumping it a second time on the way back out was not appealing. I just don't like the stepladder method! It is very clumsy and my bike is a lot heavier than I expected (nothing compared to my Yamaha Road Star, of course, but for rolling up a steep ramp, even this little bike does have a fair bit of heft). That girl in the DirtRider video must have arms the length of gorillas' and her bike must be very light.