Sunday March 9, 2025 Guerneville CA.
I rode my side by side up to where Skiddy was parked and warmed it up for some work.
No rocking today. Instead I’m going to go to my cousin’s place to clear some slides off the roads there that were caused by heavy winter rains this winter.
I rode out this road, taking the fork to the left.
And I went down this road smoothing out some spots and removing a small slide or two.
I made it down to the water crossing and fixed that up a bit.
And I got a drink of spring water which I needed.
I took this slide of the road.
Then I worked my way back up the road and stopped at the top for a short break.
Barry wanted me to go down this steep trail, called the Goat Trail to fix some water bars that were too hard to ride across. I went down there, being careful as I haven’t had Skiddy on anything this steep before.
I was fixing a water bar here and these small madrone trees got in my way and wouldn’t get off the road, but got stuck in this brush. I worked and worked at it and finally got enough of this stuff off the road to get by. You can’t tell, but the road is really steep right here, so I had to be careful and move slowly. It’s mainly a fire break road.
I got the three water bars fixed up so Barry can ride his dirt bike up the road. Not me, it’s steeper than I need to go up.
From there I went over to this road my cousin calls the Steps and cleaned it up a bit. The guys messed this road up during the recent forest fire and there was lots of rock on the road that I cleared off and smoothed up a bit. The road was also getting over grown with brush they call Scotch Broom. This weed has nice little yellow flowers, but it’s taking over everything in this area.
I made it back to where Hondo was parked and fueled up Skiddy and went on home.
Nice day.
