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spectacular) . A d ozen or so riders get b y me while I'm st o p ped . Ri ch ard Fogg o n a 80cc Chapparal is one of th em. The bike can ' t begin t o ge t him up th is fir st pitch, so he runs a nd walks wi th it up, and ou t of sigh t. Steffan co mes b y. Boy , is he la te ! I'm off, a nd u p the trail. The SD mak es the pi t ch easily, but is d efin it el y d own on power. A little c1u tch slip ping and fo o ti ng later I arrive at the kil ler, and associated bo ttl en ec k. Take a n u mber. I lo se 30 m inu tes wa iting m y tu m , and he lping others thro ugh. Mos t everyone helps one a not her afte r a couple of rid ers lose it bad , and tum b le ass over gas tank d own h ill. Ove r th e to p (wit h some help ) and d o wn the other side. T he pa ck tra il slowly improves to a jeep trail and the n c he ck three - 126 ! Far o ut, d o w n 107 . La ter thi s c hec k is fo und to be off by one hour, b u t the hill has d one in a lo t of dece nt times. On down th e j eep trail and I' m fee ling good agai n , and getting it on. Almos t done, kind of lik e th e hor se, gue ss I can sm ell the ba rn. Back o n th e ro ad, a nd into the p its. Well, at leas t I fin ishe d. Th e cl u b has t he eve nt sco red by late afte rnoon, a nd han d s o ut th e awards on the spo t. Fifty -six of us m ad e it in before th e cutoff. Transp lanted Ca lifornian Da ve Woo ds tak es h igh overall with a 35 . Curtis Le hrin g hangs in the re ' on the seco nd lo op to take th e Ope n class with a 4 3. My c1ubmate Pa ul Ed ward s nabs the 25 0 with a 48, and R i ch ard Fo gg surprised every on e, (incl ud ing himse lf ), with th e 125 win wit h a 5 6. Even m ore spectacula r is that his score would have tr ophied in every cla ss, in cluding Open ! Ta ke th at, Des ert Mast e r! Ei ther th at 8 0cc Chapparral is d am n fast , o r else it runs well with a heavy load . No table a m o ng th e troph ies is good guy J erry Elson's second in th e 12 5. Jerry is the For est Ranger th at firs t gained notoriety (to Cycle News read ers ) for h is wonderful ass istance during the 19 72 Tonto . He's n ow working on the Coronado, but ca m e ba ck to the Tonto to take second in this Fall's run . T he No ma ds have ac hi eve d an excellen t rapport ' w it h the Forest Servi ce , a nd 1 th in k m o st of it is d ue either d irectly or in d irectly to Jerry Elso n. The Ran ger o n the d ist ric t in which the run was held, Ken Bish op, was tu rn ed o n t o b ike s b y Je rry. In fac t Ken has b o ugh t pro bably o ne of th e first o ffi cial Fo rest Service m otorc ycl es! And hi s assistan t got so sto ke d by th e whole proce ed ings he wen t out a nd b oug ht o ne fo r himself. J erry is so o n m oving t o t he Presc o tt Forest, and I look fo rw ard to an en ligh te ned ap proach to b ik es the re nex t. May be there ' s h ope for us ye t. So that was it , a p otentially f ine ru n flaw ed b y lack of a tte ntion t o th e fine points of a n en d uro. T he a verage on th e firs t lo op was ab o ut rig ht an d th e tra il was easy to ride. It wasn 't ma rk ed as well as it co u ld have been , but m o st ride rs m an aged to fin d t heir wa y ar o u nd. The fact that no o ne cleaned it I think can be a ttributed to the messed up tim es. I f the aforementioned 2 3 m inute correction is made th ere are seve ral very good first loop scores. The second loop was fairly we ll m arked, a fte r the first seven mi les, but the averages w ere a ta d fast, partic ularl y in the 12 MPH sec tio n. An eight would have been b etter , an d six M PH wo uld have give n o ne time to w o rk t h ro ug h the bottlenec k on th e kille r hi ll. And of co urse th e clocks aga in. Lit tl e d etails like the lac k o f p ost ed key tim es an d mil eages a t t he check a nd speed c ha n ges hampered ride r's efforts to navigat e a nd pretty well p recluded any p ro tests of ba d mil eages and time. T he cl ub w o rk ed h ard an d I th ink m o re atte n tio n to d etail s su ch a s markin g. carefu l synch ro n iza tion o f times , and avo idance o f bottlenecks will pr oduce a fantasti c run next y ea r: They 've got the key ele me n ts , ac tive an d conscie n tio us member s, a good rapport wit h the land o wners and managers , and bitchin ", beau ti fu l ridin g • co u n try. I' ll see yo u th e re. Results High Over a ll : Da ve W o o d ( Va m) 35 . O pe n : 1. C u r tiS La hnng (Kaw) 4 3 : 2 . B ob Edwards (Va m) 53 ; 3 . Ch ris Sen nott (V am ) ~ 9. 2 ~ O : 1. Pa u l E d wa rd s ( V am ) 48: 2. Je rry Bran don (Hus) ~3 ; 3. John Fox (B ul) 58 . 125 : 1. R i chard F o gg (C h P) 56: 2 . Jer r y EI~ n (Pen) 1 2 ; 3 . John S te war d (Z u n) 88 . 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