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[naturaledge]

Dang! this is a great thread. N-edge

[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

verfman83 said:

That old ghost town and the mine pictures were awesome! Great pics! How big of a riding album do you have through the years?

I always brought a camera with me when we ride and we usually went to a play area to warmup before we hit the trails, so we would take pictures during the warmup. Thanks to all you guys and your kind words, it feels great to share these pics and the stories. I do have just a few more stories (and pictures) to tell about Clear Creek California.

Edited by phillybeef, 12 January 2010 - 09:13 AM.
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[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

HumboldtMoto707 said:

wow thats awesome, I live in Eureka and grew up in Nor Cal, I love seeing local riding spots, did you see the article In Racer X about Honey Lake? anyways cool man.

HumboltMoto707, hope you are all right. I'm in Santa Clara and Ive been feeling the earthquakes too.
These days we ride dualsport. Seeing new places in California. Recently, I planned a trip (mapped a back road coarse, made roll charts for 4 friends, hotel reservations, where to gas, eat, etc.) to Cape Mendocino, aka the Lost Coast. What a fun ride it turned out to be, from ft. Bragg through, Branscomb, Laytonville, Covelo (Indian Reservation), thru Kettenpom, spent the night at Garberville, then into The Lost Coast and the dirt..., had a blast on Usal road back to Ft. Bragg. We Love that North Coast. ....phillybeef

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[Boudroux TT Titanium Member]

Thanks for the thread gentleman, awesome!

[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

The following is excerpted from a book called Quicksilver Country, California's New Idra Mining.

  In 1883, at Three Rocks, west of Silver Creek in the Ciervo Hills, a strange religious group gathered at the beckoning of a religious lunatic called Juana La Loca. At the huge sandstone pillars, Juana La Loca (the supposed girl friend of bandit Joaquin Murrieta), claimed to have seen long-dead Priest Father Magin Catala, who was known as the holy man of Santa Clara.
  The apparition of Father Magin was supposed to have occurred when Juana La Loca and two male companions were searching for treasure buried by Joaquin Murrieta. Father Magin reportedly warned Juana that the end of time was at hand and within three years all living humans would be destroyed by fire and and flood except those who turned to God and convened at Three Rocks. The Father said to Juana that the huge ledges were really churches that would be opened in due time to accommodate the faithfull.
  Juana La Loca, so successful in convincing people of her apparition, by the end of May 1983, there were over 400 people at the unusual formation, but the saintly priest failed to appear. when the day came that was to be the end of time, Juana, who was to fly to heaven, climbed onto the highest rock and waited unsuccessfully for her deliverance into glory.
  In 1902, Juana La Loca was struck by a Santa Fe train at Hanford, California. It was said that she had been drinking heavily and walked up the tracks with a bottle in one hand and with her other fist clenched in defiance of the oncoming locomotive.

Three Rocks aka Joaquin Rocks is about 10 miles south of Spanish Lake and about 7 miles to the south outside of Clear Creek, below is the first view of this place when approached from the northwest, in this view we are facing east.

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There is a trail between the left and center rocks, and you ride up the back side of the center rock, it was steep but with much traction.

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All these pics we are at the top on the center rock. Someone cemented a wood branch at the top, it's about a 150 ft drop over the ledge.

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Small aircraft use this place as a navigational aid, a pilot waved at us on this day.

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[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

Theres a swimming pool size bowl near the top that had water in it.

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[hawaiidirtrider Get Help Now]

Awesome pics and story!!!! Beautiful views!!! Must have been fun!!

[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

On our way back from Three Rocks we took a different route back by going east through Lost canyon, (Arroyo Leona), we all made an extraordinary hill climb, though I had the 430 Husky, carl on the 406 ATK, John, riding the wife's XR200 had to be perfect. None of us had ever been up this steep trail that climbed through the trees from the canyon below.

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Another pic of Larious Lip

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Here's a picture "from this century" laugh, not to far from the site where a world war 2 bommber airplane went down (in a training mission). You can rummage through old crash parts. I've got a pushrod, crimped in its dust tube, the ones you see on those big raidial engines.

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[Gilkerson TT Platinum Member]

Found a few more, mid to late 80's. Ay Phillybeef, I had those same blue MS racing pants.

[Basco2 TT Bronze Member]

Finally dug a few pics out.  Must have been around '83.  Sad thing is we rarely took photos.  This was a day in the desert outside of Boise.  Me on my KX and my buddy on his IT.    


IT had a kickstand.  Nothing to lean your bike against out here.  





Different day but same IT and another friend on Husky 500.  That Husky was scary fast in the desert.  Not sure if you can see it but this pic reminds me that we used to take small home stereo speakers and put them in our cars back in the day.  You can just make one out on the passenger side of my buddies truck.  Totally safe   

[spdnjoe TT Bronze Member]

thank you soo much for sharing these great pics and stories. Now I need to go find the pics of me on my 1975 XR75 with the ol DG pipe at Saddleback. I learned to ride my first bike there on the old flat track in 1976. I was 4 yrs old.

[FLT TT Silver Member]

Great pics., nice husky's . I rode Husky's ( 250 , 390, & 430) from 74 thru 83. Mostly mx, great bikes, now i ride a 09 300xc ,the best off road bike i have ever had. Thanks for the pics.

[MotoMD TT Bronze Member]

These are awesome, thanks for sharing.

[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

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Hey fueler from OR, love that "junkyard track". And yeah, I didn't always wear a helmet either.

Basco; you my friend are awesome, awesome, thanks for sharing....phillybeef

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[Basco2 TT Bronze Member]

phillybeef said:

Basco; you my friend are awesome, awesome, thanks for sharing....phillybeef

Glad I had some to share.  Wish I had more.  Thank you for starting such a cool thread!   Something about old riding pics that just makes my day.  Hope they keep coming

[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

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[Lennie TT rusty bullet hole member]

Cool pics, some of these were taken before I was born but its great to see older bikes in action when they were new!

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phillybeef said:

Hey off_road_4_me, judging by the snow in them there mountains, I'dd say that river water is mighty cold!

thanks for sharing those pics:thumbsup:......     phillybeef

You got it sir! that it is stilling sitting in our shed, and I could go out there right now and start her up.
its really quite cool, trails my dad blazed when he was in high school I ride today while in highschool with him

[phillybeef TT Gold Member]

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Edited by phillybeef, 29 January 2010 - 01:08 PM.
I had to get my ducks in a row.

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I told the Photog, that I was going to pull a wheelie and power slide at the same time over this off-camber rise. But the buried rock got me.....

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Remember when you could take two pictures really quick.

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