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. ,... EVEN ,NOAH GETS WORRIED N .. 8, e, N ,... Cl N . >- ::< '" '!: w z W ...J (J >- (J _ . "' .:.; ...., .f: . 't'; Dave Mungenast gives the new Honda some attention at the second check . Leh to and Lars Larson (Califo rn ia' s only entry) both drowned their Huskies. Doug Wilford riding a Penton got swept downstream 30 fee t bu t managed to hold onto it and get out, n o worse for th e experien ce. By the end of the first day , after 192 miles of very difficult conditions , less than 30 riders out of the 290 entered were still in the running. The machines were very beat up and everyone knew if they had to run the same course the following day with even higher river there were going to be no finishers. The layout crew was fra ntically switching arrows, and trying to help riders whose bikes were in the woods. Mike Vancil, the AMA 's resident peacock who had been running around in the mud all day in his shiny oxfords and sport j acket, was trying to p ersuade the club to include a tire-changing test, wa s n ow trying to persuad e somebod y to organize a searc h and rescu e mi ssion to ,- , lo o k for a guy who was stuck in th e woods. Fortunately Vancil failed on both missions. If he had managed to ge t his ti re changing test, somebody would probably have beat him to de ath w ith a muddy tire iron. The gu y h e wanted to rescue walked out under his own steam ' the following morning, which is more than c ould have been expected of an y rescue squad. The decision on Sunday's run was in the hands of the run's organizer Eddy Viermann, who had laid out the entire co urse o n a Honda 70 minibike. The Su nday run was scheduled to start at 6 a.m . It was delayed until 7 :00. Th e course by then had been re-marked to take out th e worst o f the water crossings, bu t one severe on e sti ll remained. The Sunday course wa s shortened to 56 miles. It was raining again. The handful o f rid ers prep ared to 'leave. They had a few m inutes t o w ork f y /~ // .,(: I J),£ .~,0< .~ ..........:i'l.-_ ,. oW .. He's not sty lish b ut he's mak ing it. If y ou didn't like mud you were in the wrong game. on th eir bikes before startin g. Most were dping something with th e chain which took enormous abuse in th e d ownpour of y este rday. Bill Uhl, th e son of Boise d ealer and ra cer Herb Uh l, was lookin g fr an tically for his ma st erlink. Billy did a terrible endo on Saturday whe n h is front wheel dropped into a d eep h ole at about 45 mph. The b ike lan ded o n top of him and he looked like h e had 10 rounds with a sharp-clawed women 's liberationist, bu t.fortunately h e h ad n o serious inju ries. He finally found the missing link inside his glo ve. Two and a half hou rs later, a few of them were back. Ther e were 16 finishers. Three had go ld m edals. They were J ack and Jeff Penton, an d D ou g Wilford and they were all o n Pen to n 125 's , Un fo rtu nately , th ey were not on th e same team. N on e of th e te am s fin ished intac t. The Pen tons h ad tw o tr ad e teams en te red an d they finish ed first and second in th at category . T he club team award was won b y St. Louis w ith two members Honda M.C. fmi shing, b oth with silvers . They were Dave Mungenast on the new Honda 250 and Ed Schmidt, d oing the honors for Husky . RESULTS (unofficia l) 125 CLASS Jack Penton Jeff Penton Doug Wilford Dane Leim bach 250 CLASS Dave Munge nast Nell Hartzell D ick S m i t h D ic k Bu rleson John Bruc k Stan R ub ott o m Vern Street Wenda I Eye Pen Pen Pen Pen Gold Gold GO ld G old Hon Suz a ut Pen 511 511 5 11 Hus Hus Hus 511 Ya m Bran Bron Bron Bron 95 8 965 9 78 10 3 4 1084 1 0 84 10 02 2 082 OPEN CLASS Ed Schm id t Mike Lew is Les G rab le D ou g How le Hus Hus G re H us 511 5 11 Bron Bro n 895 10 0 9 847 1144