nOObs Rally End of March Madness 2012 Ride Report

I know I know It was a long time ago, I wrote it in April but forgot to post My RR for Day 3 so here it is better late than never
Maybe

Day 3
I signed up myself and Justin for this ride:
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Ride: Get Dirty and Salty With Peligro
Lead By: SenorPeligro
On: Saturday
Max Number of Riders: 6

Meet: Outside PSR Restaurant
At: 9:00
Departs: 9:30


　
　
THIS RIDE HAS CHANGED! Pay attention at the back.
Due to underwhelming interesting in yet another Panamint loop I'm leading you plucky adventurers on a little trip from Panamint Springs, to Darwin and then up Saline Valley Road, through South Pass as far as the junction with Lippincott Mine Road. Then we'll double back to PSR for hot cocoa and tales of derring-do around the campfire.
PSR -> Old Toll Road -> Ophir Road -> Darwin -> Darwin Road --> Saline Valley Road --> Junction with Lippincott Mine Road.
Like this:
http://g.co/maps/zfam6
Just under a 100 miles back to PSR.
If everyone has the range or can arrange for gas, I might be talked into pushing this trip to the Saline Valley Hot Springs. I have it on good authority that it's about 140 miles.
Meet outside the PSR restaurant at 9:00 to familiarize yourself with the route, ready for a 9:30 chocks-away. Look for an orange F800GS with my name on the plate.


SenorPeligro F800GS
airborndad XT225
Justin XT225
Muddydonut KTM 950 ADV
specialagentnancy BMW F650
Cowgirl WR250
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when myself and Justin got to the gas station/ meet up location only 2 other riders were there
so it looked like it was just going to be

SenorPeligro F800GS
airborndad XT225
Justin XT225
specialagentnancy BMW F650

SenorPeligro asked me if I would ride sweep so I said no problem just as we were getting ready to leave 1 other rider joined us I don't know who it was but I think he was on a DR 350

anyways we left Panamint Spring and headed up towards the Old Darwin Toll rd
turned where the parking area was for the hiking trail to Darwin Falls
specialagentnancy started to have just a little bit a struggle negotiating some of the sharp off camber uphill turns but kept pushing along then it got a little more tore up and she decided that it was probably best for her to bail early so I tried to wave to signal the other riders as they were going through the switchbacks above us unfortunately none of them bothered to look back so I figured they'll notice us pretty soon and come back looking for us so in the meantime we got specialagentnancy's bike turned around and pointing in the right direction then we waited and waited and waited I gave specialagentnancy some suggestions on were to go and showed her on a map that I gave her about 15 minutes went by and I figured they were long gone so we decided to head back down to the flat section where the parking area was for the hiking trail to Darwin Falls then I would turn around and try to catch up to the rest of the group while she was going on her solo exploration toward Augueberry Point and elsewhere so on my way back up I got back to the point we turned around at and the rest of the group was coming back down so I thought cool were all back together lets get going
well I guess they all decided to turn around cause the road was too tore up and SenorPeligro said his clutch was burning up so they were heading to Saline Valley rd or something ? I wan't to keep going so I asked Justin if he wanted to continue he said I'm going wherever you go I asked the guy on the DR he said he was going back also so 3 maybe 3-1/2 miles into the ride the group of 5 was now 2 so off we go I told Justin to honk when we get to the part that was giving them trouble cause I couldn't recall anything that bad when I went through there last year so about a 1/2 mile later we get to a corner and Justin honks and I'm thinking WTF theres nothing here but just around the corner it got pretty steep with staggered foot deep holes everywhere and plenty of loose rocks and dirt it was a bit of a challenge but not a problem on our bikes by weaving our way around them, through them, and over them
But on a loaded F800GS I can totally understand this turning into a major obstacle and I think specialagentnancy would probably have been crashing her F650 so it was probably a good decision for the big bikes to turn back
turns out that short 150 - 200 foot section up to the top of the hill was the only bad part of the road
so me and Justin were just gonna cruise around checking things out at our own pace now









Square headed Nuts and Bolts on rivited together piping = OLD


Old mid 50's Buick

























On our way to Darwin we spotted this rig, so since we had no other riders to try to keep up with, or keep track of ,
we decided to figure out a way to get up to it and check it out


















then we went down the same OLD toll road we went down last year since we liked it so much last time + we did a little more exploring　







　











　

You can see that at one time this road was actually paved but there's not very much pavement left that can be seen
This is the biggest section





















Cool blueish green rocks

Hidden just around the corner found a nice little mine tunnel





Headed out past Darwin spotted a walking fish

hit the highway and the wind really started kicking up so we headed back towards Panamint Springs Resort
and stopped at Father Crowley Point















Panamint Springs and more wind ahead

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lots of nice pics there keith.

that's not too far from camp and still i missed it even though i put 500 miles in 3 days. neither made it to chloride, titus, pleasant canyon, tea kettle, hunter, lippencott, etc.

death valley is huge. one will need a week and a big gas tank to see them all.

Who ever won the tires for best trip report?

hey matt, hope you guys are doing more riding.

this may be one of the least expensive event, but we manage to get a lot of sponsors and donors. after that huge raffle, we still had about $400 ($100 from sito and $300 from nowwhat) in the pot.

i ended up giving 2 tires to the commemorative souvenir sponsor who brought about 200 pieces of drinking glasses.

then, 2 more tires for the best trip report, however we had a 3-way tie. I splitted up the remaining cash among ersin (fyyff), isaac west and chris (browneye).

dsm8 was the lucky winner to receive the advmoto magazine free 1 year subscription....http://www.adventuremotorcycle.com/?gclid=CKSl-9ydhbECFUEGRQod3FJeJw

i apologize for the late announcement; so, looking forward to see you all and more new faces next year.

I think it's time to start the list for the 2013 nOOb Rally... what'cha think, eh?

If you do, let me know where it is and (post) and when it is. Joel, I have some excellent areas in and around Pahrump, NV you might be interested in.

I am looking forward to noobs 2013

hello matt.

hi andy, thanks for the reminder. i'm getting a lot of inquiries too, so i'll start a new thread and post it up in the "upcoming"

dates are from Mar. 28-31, 2013

panamint springs

hi jimmy, yeah, just like the "taste of dakar". awesome riding areas right in your backyard.

fall of 2013 perhaps.

the 2013 noob's death valley rally is ON......


http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=841673

Want to join the fun. Will be one of thirdbestfriend's group.

Click the link below to go to the 2014 rally planning and RSVP thread.

he meant this one

2014 Death Valley Noobs Rally - March 28, 29 & 30

Whoops! Thanks, Keith.

2 weeks ago, we did a prerun around the race track and ubehebe crater