Monday, August 31, 2009

Long Horns and Monkey Butt

Here is a little story how Outsidevan's Espar Power Hauler and owner spent the weekend. Thanks for the story, we love to hear about your Dodge Sprinter adventures on the Outside!


"Yesterday, I swam thinking the surf was not going to happen. Then I got the call that Shark fin was going off. Turned out to be one of the best SUP sesh's to date--big, glassy walls to a wide channel. One tow-team out earlier that am. Then, Tim showed up with a ski and we towed a building swell at the Siletz River mouth for two more hours. I then (red) bulled-up and drove to bend. I wanted to check out a dual sport link from the China Hat single track area to the Christmas valley dunes. (In preparation for the upcoming Dune/Carne Asada fest in October). It ended up being three tanks/250 miles of exploration. Soft red cinder gravel, twisty singletrack, technical rock gardens, long drones on lonely country roads and wind groomed pumice dunes. I left Bend in the morning. That evening in La Pine (with a Margarita, some fantastic mexican food, my flip flops and a change of clothes. AHHH!) Backed my van up to a gravel bank and I roosted my 690 KTM right in, bonking hard. Great route past several caves, multiple ecosystems, and epic desert vistas. The cave in the picture was used as a civil defense bomb shelter back in the day."