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Normal trail was 21 MPH, unless there were log. too big to jump and hills that guys might have to push up. Then they wen t down to 18 MPH. For tough stuff they went to 6 ·MPH. "Tough stuff" was an overgrown railbed with the ties still in place sometimes and sapplings growing between the ties. A t just about the 100 miles mark, most riders were ready to admit that in spite of the fact that the weather had been beautiful (It should be expected that for a run like this the organizers will provide a cold, drizzly rain.) they had indeed been on a real enduro. At 100 miles, they were riding along a nice trail amost within smelling distance of the camp. But the enduro was 103 miles long. The arrows ;.,dicailed a hard left off the trail. Since this was virtually ever a cliff, most riders thought at first that someone had been messing the arrows, but the guys at the bottom with the cameras all had CERA T-shirts. Actually, if you studied it, it wasn't so bad. The first one hundred yards was only about 45 degrees or so. If you locked up both brakes, you wouldn't get going more than about 20 MPH. Of course, it got steep after that but only four about 20 yards. There was no .way the bike could really get away from you because right at the bottom there was this board wall, and if you couldn't ~ the turn, well, the wall would stop you. It was sort of comforting really. There's nothing most guys hate worse than a runaway motorcycle. The trail down this hill was exactly one bike-width wide. There was a dirt wall on one side and logs on the other. There was only one way that a guy 'could turn around on that hill and that was by going end over end. A fellow named Riley, however, did just that. Here he was, bottlenecking the trail with his motorcycle upside down and backwards. The CERA guys had a little discussion about him. Some of them thought he ought to have to push it back up the hill and do it right, but he was causing a bottleneck. Finally they helped him back it down the rest of the way. The only other guys that really got in trouble were the ones who tried to walk their bikes down. The hill was definitely too steep to walk, and they should have known better. A bike left to its own devices would slide down to the bottom, but with a rider under it, it usually came to an awkward stop. Quite a few riders actually looked pretty good coming down; one of tbese was No. 41A on a 250 Bultaco. Just rode down with the brakes on, the engine running, clutch in, planted one foot bard in the corner at the bottom, popped the clutch and left showering mud and rocks over the spectators. No. 41A was Kim Slayton, a 16 year-old girl from Reno. Now I'll betcba we won't be able to find a guy in California who wiII admit that he walked his bike down. There were a lot of riders who couldn't finish this enduro for one reason or another, but no one that I talked to didn't think it was a good one. It's tbe kind of ride that a lot of people dream about when they 'think of trail riding, only usually they dream at balf-speed. There were guys wbo thought it was too slow in sections, like Ben Bower and Jim Sparkes,. but Ben just won a gold medal at the ISDT so don't take him too seriously. Ben tied for points lost with Len Erickson at 5 each but Len won overall by 15 seconds at the tie-breaker check. Both Erickson and Bower ride large Huskies. This run was almost entirely on private property, land owned by Micbigan California Lumber and DeGeorgio's Forest Products. These two companies were very cooperative, insisting only that they be adequately covered by insurance. Tbe Forest Service also cooperated to the extent of letting the riders use several camps. If you rode and liked this run, it wouldn't hurt to drop the companies a note and say "Than ks ". The organization was quite good. There were lots of people at the checks and accurate route sheels were mailed to the riders ahead of time. Marking was usually pretty good, tbough there were some spo tty parts. R igh t after the firs t check, the arrows indicated a left turn. -J usl beyond the arrows 'the-re was a connuence of three roads, two of which wenl to the left. The correct road was marked with wrong way arrows, the other road had arrows going the wrong way and the third road took you back to the check. Actually, tbis was supposed to be a cute way LO avoid havinR the course run into itself. You were supposed to "cut the comer" through the woods and come out onto the road beyond those wrong-way arrows: What it' did accomplish was massively confuse a lot of people. A couple of arrows torn down and laying in the dirt didn't help either. But for tbe most part, the course was marked well. The speed averages also seem to bave been very well ch osen. Ben Bower found them just a bit slow and I found them just a bit fast, so they were probably just about right. For those who think it was too tough, note that tbe Youngest Finisher trophy goes to a ten year-old! And he lost only 22 points! • MONARIC .~ -=:;- Results: Open A: 1. Leonard Erickson (360 Hus) 5; 2. Ben Bower (400 Hus) 5. 250 A: 1. Ralph Mailton (175 Pen) 5. 125 A: 1. Jim Jenkins (125 Pen) 6. Open B: 1. Shep Johnson (360 Hus) 6. 250 B: 1. Wayne Rogers (250 Bul) 6. 125 B: 1...ptlil Hazard (125 Han) 16; 2. Bruce Irwin (1:l5 DKW) 16. Open C: 1. Jerry Mitler (350 Han) 35. 250 C: 1. Loren Pocock (250 Yam) 28. 125 C: 1. Jim Meseruy (125 DKW) 21. Powder Puff: 1. Kim Slayton (250 Bul) 39. Youngest: JOCfY Gaines (100 Vam) 22, 10 yrs. old. Oldest: 1. Buz Eckenburg (175 Yam) 194, 58 yrs. old. TAIlCI:T This was fairly popular technique for getting down this hill. ""OOUCTS OIVISIOH 1OX0Nf: , UOLllllOCCnA.1 Lm-.L..II.CA. - . 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