2021 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

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My newfound hobby of shooting hairpins

Turning around I find this homestead which is little more than an RV and a portapotty.

I guess someone is into totem poles. And corn.

 

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Feels like fall & the elevation is beginning to climb. The road ahead goes above 5000 ft and that could be a problem, I didn't want to get snowed on.

 

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There's an alternative route to keep me at lower elevations in Dunlap Rd.

 

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Dunlap Rd runs about 10-15 miles through the foothill community of Miramonte. It's twisty and sticks to the edge of a ridgeline dropping out of the Foothills. I had the road entirely to myself.

 

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Right

Left

Right, then left again

 

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Sprawling metropolis. Not really, population 219, dropping down through 3000'

 

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Only downside to this road is the consistency of that sand at the side of the road, any time trucks cut the corners could mean sand in the road.

 

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Another shortcut north

Still dropping rapidly in elevation

 

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Elwood is as fun as it looks. It's way more fun to ride it uphill.

For a long time, it was a goaty back road, then it got repaved, and it became pure bliss.

 

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Elwood Rd for many years had this really crazy run-down property in the middle. A horse standing in the middle of the road, pigs, cows, junk everywhere, old cars, trash everywhere. I'd route the tour group to Elwood Rd to gawk like tourists. The sound of banjos was everywhere.

It was a real dump.

 

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But the property was completely cleaned up, no trace of the former carnage. A young family was out front working on a fence. Good on them.

 

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Elwood connects to Pine Flat Lake and the Pine Flat Dam.

 

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Trimmer Springs Rd was built along the edge of the lake.

This reservoir was built in the mid-1950s.

 

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I've been seeing Tarantulas everywhere, they are very common to Central Cal, and often migrate across the road.

Before you think it, I've already got a new set at home base waiting to spoon on.

He wanted to say hello.

 

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Every time I see these guys, it reminds me of this movie.

I saw this a young kid and was scared of <big> spiders for years. And yep, Captain Kirk did a spider movie.
Not a kid movie.

He went on his merry way and didn't attack me like in the movies.

 

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Pine Flat Lake - it's quite low.

Trimmer Springs Rd

 

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I've always had a thing for backroads.

Maxon Rd has that in spades. Single lane, remote middle of nowhere.