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11-30-2006, 10:12 PM
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On a Ride
Joined: Mar 2002
Location: Rockies
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A Ten Mile, 106 Year Ride Report - Images/Vid
If you appreciate diversity, the bike shouldn't matter. If you get a kick out of collecting memories, from a recent ride...
Maybe it's more years on life's odometer. Maybe a look back helps me face forward. Maybe it's just kinda nice taking ride down alongside a scenic, lonely, and wild river, one a train used to take visitors to over 100 years ago. Perhaps old images can be found, and we stand near where the photographer stood. Explore some. Find the spot. Frame the image. Examine change. Be whimsical then live with gusto. A ten mile, 106 year ride report. Images loading below, showing then and now. A brief 2:30sec ride video here: The 106 Year Ride -Streaming Video with a two minute Doobie Brothers instrumental "Flying Cloud" accompanying. But the images below are the tale. Oh, once made a video (Mary Chapin Carpenter - "10,000 miles") coming the other way on the GS: Along a River - Streaming Video Map of the journey, SW of Denver...  First stop is at the town Pine, historical name is Pine Grove. In 1900 it was a popular narrow gauge train stop with travelers from Denver enjoying a day or days in the mountains...  And today. More trees is one change. Local residents not cutting them down to build structures... and heat them...  Continuing to the small town of Buffalo Creek, a nice road to get there...  And turning around, the old train bridge crossing the river. Can see the grade...  First of two old 1900 images of Buffalo Creek...  And today (Interesting cloud)...  This is where we will be heading towards, the rocks and river in the distance...  The same structures remaining today, including a Catholic church, the old Buffalo Creek train depot, and a home...  Had to do a little 700lb dirt biking to get to the place above...  OK, this is where the onboard video above starts, at the old Buffalo Creek train depot. Used to be a town around this place, but a fire in one structure quickly spread to all the other tightly packed structures and the town literally went up in smoke. With wood heat in the winter, wood structures, adjoining walls... this is how many small towns met their fate. Wonder how many business and home owners felt like reaching for the Colt 45 when their neighbor let loose a fire...  First stop in the river canyon is the resort cabin community of Ferndale. A half dozen cabins for rent in the trees on the hillside on the right. This is before cars. Yesterday it was the train...  Today it is this horse...  One would have to cross the walk/swinging bridge to get across the river in 1900...  Same is true today, but the bridge you see here was rebuilt ten years ago when a flash flood blasted the previous one away...  Let's turn back the clock and visit the cabins and people of 1900...    Gather your friends and family for a picture...  In front of one of the cabins...  And today. Difficult to see, but this is where the photographer stood 106 years ago. Same cabin...  Leaving Ferndale in 1900...  Leaving Ferndale in 2006...  Continuing down the river canyon on the old train tracks bed, with the Cathedral Spires the backdrop...  Today...  Then...  Now...  Pausing for a glamour shot. The rushing water here is the location at beginning of the ride video above...  Got to love the name of this rock coined back in 1900... Peterhead Rock. Admired then...  Some things never change...  Approaching the conclusion of this ten mile, 106 year old ride. The town of Foxton on the river in 1900...  Today...  Handwritten on the back of the image here..."In Platte Canon below Foxton, Sept. 1, 1901. Coupling broke between engine and tender and locomotive ran ahead of train. Tender jumped track and whole train derailed."  OK, could only find a 1971 image of what was at the time, the Foxton Post Office...  Not much of a going concern today, but the electrical wire looks unchanged in 35 years!  Unlike anything else, collecting memories on the two wheels. |
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11-30-2006, 10:28 PM
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Decloaked Lurker
Joined: Aug 2006
Location: Burnaby BC
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Wow!
Nice pics - and an amazing amount of work to get them in the same place as the historical ones...
I love the comparison between then and now! Nice work, and very much appreciated! - BCB |
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11-30-2006, 10:36 PM
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still not very smart
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Location: The "good" Carolina
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11-30-2006, 10:56 PM
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I need another one...
Joined: Jun 2006
Location: San Jose / Truckee
Oddometer: 1,122
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Wow...there are actually more trees now then a hundred years ago? Great report!  |
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11-30-2006, 11:06 PM
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Gelande/Strasse
Joined: May 2004
Location: Colorado USA
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nice trip sfarson (John Fielder)
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11-30-2006, 11:15 PM
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Howling "Mad", Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2001
Location: Granite Falls, Washington State, USA
Oddometer: 5,397
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Great ride report and photos.
Howdy Sfarson ,
Very cool video and ride report the contrast between the past and the present was great. Don't worry that you weren't riding the latest in "Adventure Bikes" I crossed the country for over 30 years on my Hogs before buying a GS. I had my old chain drive Hogs on some roads that would give a GS fits. That's the one bad thing about the new belt drive bikes you really are limited for the most part to the paved roads. I know, I have lost two rear belts on my Road King in the last 78,000 miles of ridin it. Still in the 54,000 miles I have put on my GS I have lost two final drive seals and one ring and pinion so I guess the Hog is still ahead of the game.    
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11-30-2006, 11:28 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Apr 2006
Location: Sammamish, WA
Oddometer: 425
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Awesome,
I really enjoyed the Then vs. Now concept!! Excellent Nut |
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11-30-2006, 11:39 PM
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fixer
Joined: Nov 2005
Location: southern Minnesota
Oddometer: 43,641
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Fantastic!
Great work. Very interesting.
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11-30-2006, 11:42 PM
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XPLOR
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Boise, Idaho
Oddometer: 363
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That is so cool! I love the railroad shots. I'm gonna have to try this. Thanks for posting.
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12-01-2006, 12:43 AM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Mar 2005
Location: Portland, OR
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I especially like the photo with the interesting cloud formation you mentioned. If you look closely at the sign on the corner it says, "What else is in the sky"!
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12-01-2006, 01:11 AM
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Split Sole
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Location: Bland,VA
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Great job, how much research did this take?
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12-01-2006, 01:16 AM
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quality > quantity
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: Denver
Oddometer: 931
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Great ride report. Thanks for all of the hard work in location & setting up those then-and-now shots. They're great!
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12-01-2006, 01:39 AM
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Mar 2006
Location: Riverside County, California.
Oddometer: 667
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Spectacular!
Let's turn back the clock and visit the cabins and people of 1900... Gather your friends and family for a picture... In front of one of the cabins... Leaving Ferndale in 1900... My God Steve, How your skills have grown. I covet all off the pirated copies I have of your ride videos. 10,000 miles remains my fav. You seem so fond of the Platte River and the above ten mile section in particular. A personal place and yet you share. The cabin in the trees above makes me quiver. Once again many thanks for taking the time. Kind regards, Jed.
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12-01-2006, 05:17 AM
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The Voice of Reason
Joined: Feb 2002
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
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Very nice!
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12-01-2006, 05:32 AM
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Runs with scissors.
Joined: Sep 2005
Location: Fookin' Wichita.
Oddometer: 1,192
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Good morning, Steve.
You always set the bar very high for this style of ride report, and you've done it once again. Much thanks for the ride, I love Colorado more than any of the other 50 I've been to. I am fortunate to be in close proximity to it, and your proximity makes you more fortunate than I. Best, J. |
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