single track stoned

Surly calls and asks if I wanna go find some single track and get some pics of the bikes in the air? WTF, sure lets go.
We head out of Helena to go to pipestone pass via, 399 and 90.
We roll into the pipestone area and find some guys on real dirt bikes unloading, they give us some funny looks and state that with all the rain of late we should stick to the jeep trails and avoid all trails that are marked bikes only some have been washed out. ya right.

We see a jeep track, turn left and roll over this nice ramp vs. getting off and opening a gate. thanks USFS.



A bit further down the trail is fun and is only getting better.



Then we see this, and I’m sure its way over rated.



A bit further down we find some more excitement.



We made it down no issues but had to look at the next section before riding it, here is how it looked.



As we were scouting the line some quads came up behind us and then turned around, not real inspireing.


Here is how grau looked going down



The next turn after the rocks looked OK, here is Surly about to go down through the next turn.




Just as Surly went down 3 dirt bikes rolled up and were rather concerned that we were riding our much larger bikes in such terrain. After they rolled by the two of us we now had some Tracks to see what lines they were taking, no real help there.
The next surprise flaunted this sign.



How it looked from a few different angles.






Surly taking the best lines we could find.





Grau and I taking the same hill/





Surly crossing the steam I fell in.



A few more easy hills and we would be close to a fire road.





A nice little lake to cool our tire down in. Notice Surlys’ new SLR/Digital, very nice.







From up high behind Surlys house looking down at Helena


thanks for looking
VR
Repo

PS: Thanks to Surly for sugesting the ride and giving me access to his pics and nice new SLR/D.

You gots huevos, dude, for sure.

Great photo's . Looks like some great trails to explore too.

Nice trail, thanks for sharing the pics.
One fall from a nicely dented tank...:eek1

you guys are experts to be riding those trails on relatively large bikes. amatuer me would have trouble on my "heavy" drz. thanks for the inspiration.

It was more like elephants doing a ballet
fun tho just the same

Thanks to Repo for picking up my bike rather than snapping a picture of me pinned under it in a most unnatural pose

A few more pics here:
https://surly.smugmug.com/gallery/602408/1

That looks like Brilliant Fun! I'd go with you!

technical ride, NICE pics & now im pissed off you SOBs. THANKS GUYS.

Great trails and pics -- looks like a great ride. A bit too much for the Katoom 950, but would be fun on the 450EXC!

Very cool! I love riding at Pipestone as it's different from any other place in Montana.

Next time you guys go, let me know.

What the hell you talking about man, I thought everyone was saying those 950 KTM's were better than my little GS.

I thought one of the rules was don't talk about fall club

As I told the dirt bikers who rolled up on us, you haven't watched us fall yet... only 1-2 falls each for the day, not too bad.
relatively large bikes? Niether bike is a goldwing but how much bigger do you want?
Hey don't confuse us for anything other than amatures, skill 0 / stupidity 7

hey man thats not a nice thing to say
no dents but a turn signal did pay the ultimate price, Sorry Surly, but you opened the door

No reading / comprehension skills and no guide or clue what we were doing is more like it.

To the rest thanks, the pics were few and the exploring grand.

As the guy says to me in a heavy german accent while riding by my broken GS at Rampart... "More balls than brains, eh?"

Nice job, men.

Tight fit!!! :eek1
I can almost hear the grinding from here...

He got a rock and slid it under the rear tire and rode outta that
I do recall some grinding noises

My blinker popped right back on once I got home and my buzz wore off

large eggs and nice fotos!

Finally somebody else who thinks it's just a big ass dirt bike..........Good on ya!

BRAVO

THATS WHAT I LIKE TO SEE!!!!

great ride, great pics

that's pretty badass

Yea, nice work guys. Pretty knarly stuff for the heavy rides.