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Mike Hannon does some pit work on h is way to class win. Carl cranks out BadRock Splashing through the Oregon countryside. Fire roads had their water crossings. By Richard Creed WESTON, ORE., MAY 10-11 Carl Cranke led his Penton West teammates, Dan Young and Mark Adent, to overall victory this weekend in the fourth annual Bad Rock Two Days Trial. Cranke also took the overal l individual honors ahead of a field of approximately 160 ISDT hopefuls including 10 AMA National Enduro Champion Dick Burleson and two time Grand National Number One , Dick Mann . Burleson rode his Husqvarn a to second overall and first in the 250cc class. A scant six and one-half points separated the top two overall finishers after two days of intense slogging through cree ks and streams. Cranke 's teammate, Mark Adent lost the Open class win to Mike Hannon of the Bultaco Team by a mere point five on total points for the two days. . Dick Mann aboard a Yankee Team Ossa in place of Max Markowitz, injured in the Trask Two Days Trial, lost a sure Gold on day two when he checked in two minutes early at a checkpoint. Mann led the first day scoring with a 317.5 poin t total over Alabama Two Day victor Kevin La Voie (Oss) and Cranke. But the early checkpoint arrival on the second day dropped Mann to a Silve r and fo urth in class, 17 points behin d Jim Fogle. Cranke was aske d how he felt after the event and replied " OK." Cranke als o stated he ha d "no p roblems" d uri n g t he q ualifier. "No p roblems" was ce rtainly not the case for the o rgan izers , a lo cal gro up of dirt ridi ng enthusiasts who took over where the previo us o rganizers, The Pacific Northwest Trials Association, left off. Leon Wilbanks, who finished third in the 500cc class, and Marvin Foster of Hodaka had helped organize the previous qualifiers, but Wilbanks left Hodaka and was living elsewhere and, while Foster was available to help, the great bulk of the work fell to Ed Chesnut and Jim Leuiallen, Chesnut marked the course and Leuiallen, a fu ll time mailman and part time rancher, scouted for land after run off from late season snows soaked the land and swelled streams to over-flow stage. Chesnut, Leuiallen and friends watched three to four mon ths work gurgle away down the mountains and hills that surround the Pacific Basin. The Forestry Service made an inspection tour of the areas to be used for the co urse and declared them too moist and subject to erosion and soil damage. Th e same lands were also closed to loggers and cattlemen. "If only we'd had two or three more dry days," lamented one worker. As it turned out, the course was still being marked with ribbon at midnight Friday, eight hours before the first riders were to leave. Lo ng sections of paved farm roads and dirt fire roads were used due to the un availability of suitable land. "We went ab out 40 miles on the pavement up to Deadman 's Pass and then rode about 10 miles of dirt," stated Ben Bower. Bowe r bec ame a soggy victim when he later hit a hole "that was bottomless. " Bower wasn't the only rider to experience water problems. Cranke finishe d the West on Section on the first day and came into the gas check laughing about how high the water was . Billy Uhl (e-A) said that he looked down while fording one stream and saw " my lap full of water." Dick Mann stated he "must have crosse d water 30 Two cyding styles. Ben Bower checking things out.