Anybody still going out?

lamopar wrote:
We rode out east of Bend Oregon last weekend. I have never seen it so dusty this early. Not one trail had any water holes in them. After camping there for 5 days it may take as many to get the toy hauler cleaned for next weekend at the dunes. I am sure we will not camp out in the high desert again until fall when it rains a bit. Time to take the boat out on the lakes and ride at the dunes or in the mountains.

Different, but similar down here. For the past few years we've seen the most incredible wildflower blooms in the deserts, but this year was bone dry and the only things that bloomed were the barrel cactus. The blooms looked funny, like packing foam had caught in the thorns. But my wife googled them and they're cotton top cactus.

Sorry to hear it's so dry for you guys up there.

We rode out east of Bend Oregon last weekend. I have never seen it so dusty this early. Not one trail had any water holes in them. After camping there for 5 days it may take as many to get the toy hauler cleaned for next weekend at the dunes. I am sure we will not camp out in the high desert again until fall when it rains a bit. Time to take the boat out on the lakes and ride at the dunes or in the mountains.

deltabravo wrote:

ORbiker wrote:
Near Challan, WA

Actually that's not really all that close to Chelan, but it is very close to Leavenworth and Wenatchee, and IN Cashmere. That's the Chelan County Faigrounds.

YES

Thanks for the correction.
Chelan County Fairgrounds. The price was way better then Leavenworth.

ORbiker wrote:
Near Challan, WA

Actually that's not really all that close to Chelan, but it is very close to Leavenworth and Wenatchee, and IN Cashmere. That's the Chelan County Faigrounds.

Twice a month year round we go out but the locations change based on the weather. Maybe you should hit the coastal breeze or highest elevations when the desert valleys get hot?

yes, done until the fall, not sure where/when we're camping this summer.

We are done with the desert for the season. Our next trip is to Vail Lake RV early next month.

Triple digit temps have arrived in southern Arizona. These can easily be avoided by simply retreating up to the higher elevations but be advised getting a site is getting be be next to impossible. Most popular CG's are booked for the entire summer as everybody and their dog bought an RV last year.

:S

I live in western Oregon and ride a road bike ( was a Victory XCT and now back to my 2005 Road King ). March 2020 (when covid started) we were camping at the Oregon Coast for the 3rd trip that year. April; we got a monthly member spot in Central Oregon and went back and forth on the weekend for 3 or 4 nights each week. We got in a few rides from camp. Memorial week was in NE Oregon for 10 day ( 4th annual trip with 5er, 12th trip overall).
We have NOT altered our fun and travels one bit. We had an awesome 2 week trip in Sept to NE Oregon and south Washington. Rainier NP and Mt St Hellen we great.
We go where it's NOT HOT ( hot being 80*).

I'm ready for my Memorial Week trip, which starts next Thursday. KEN

Near La Grande, OR


Near Challan, WA ( correction Chelan County Fairgrounds )


On a walk around Magone Lake after a peaceful ( very little traffic ) on the Victory to get here.

Dick_B wrote:
Did I read this correctly. An RVer is thinking of calling it quits while we have yet to go on trip #1 because of the cool weather in the Midwest and the pandemic!!

Our riding season is late October / early November through May, but it's been so dry this year that it's way too hot and dusty to ride now. Last year at this time we had some of the best wild flowers ever, but nothing really bloomed this year except for the "cotton head" barrel cacti.

I think we camped more this year than ever before. We started in the fall when it cooled down and we went out with just two other families in our pod. It's pretty easy to isolate and socially distance out there, so we did that instead of sitting around at home doing more jigsaw puzzles.

We kept up a good pace of every other weekend most of this season. Some weekends we even did back to back trips.

Now we're looking at beaches and RV parks with pools. :(

The nice thing about riding with all of these small groups is that we found more incredible new trails and spots than we have in the past 5+ years. It's hard to explore when we're in a huge group with 10+ cars, but with just one or two others, it's pretty easy to try new things and turn around if the trails don't go through. Lots of new pins and trails saved on the GPS.