2022 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

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Of course, there's always some yahoo who's been doing a few too many pushups screwing around.

Damn kids.

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Not really see through. But the deck is kind of cool.

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Yes, it's a real sundial. But it's only accurate on the summer solstice

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Come back on June 21st and the shadow lines up perfectly.

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217-feet high

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Overall, it was really cool, and well-worth a quick visit.

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Sacramento River - we're headed for those mountains in the distance next.
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Highway 3
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These are tailings from dredging for gold in the river bottom.
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Highway 3 goes up and over the 5400 ft Scott Mountain Summit. Very fast road.

Wee bit of snow in the distance.
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Callahan is also famous, at least for motorcyclists, for being the start of a road we call 'The Racetrack'.

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The Forks of Salmon is a very remote single lane paved mountain road up and over the Trinity Wilderness over to Highway 96. 'The Racetrack' portion of The Forks of Salmon is the Cecilville Rd portion that runs between our stop here in Callahan back into the mountains for 30 miles to Cecilville. When you ride it, you'll quickly understand why we call it 'The Racetrack'. Nonstop S-curves and zero traffic. Very remote.


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'The Racetrack' has 240 curves in 30 miles - yes, someone actually counted.

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Wiggle, wiggle. 240 Curves in 30 miles. No people.

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In 30 miles of mountain road, we saw one other vehicle

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30 Miles of mountain road leads to the tiny mountain community of Cecilville. A couple of people live here - we think. No town, no side roads, just a small bar and lots of gold mining history.

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The tiny mountain community of Cecilville still has a magneto crack telephone system (think Andy Griffith Show).

Magneto crank telephone technology dates to the 1920s. With a magneto crank telephone, talking power is supplied by two dry-cell batteries on the customers end. Callers create a signal by turning a hand crank on a telephone. Forks of Salmon and Sawyers Bar had a similar looking list until the mid-1970s. Different combinations of rings, such as long-long, or short-long-short rang respective homes on the 16-party line.

Cecilville was the very last community to be upgraded, as its magneto phone system was still being used into the mid-1980s, and is regarded as the last operational magneto crank telephone system in the United States.

From 1984
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Phone book in Cecilville

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Cecilville is also interesting for zero fences anywhere. The horses all roam free and are often standing in the middle of the road in the town.

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You have to be careful with fuel range out here. We're in the middle of nowhere. I've had riders run out of fuel out here more than once after 'forgetting' to fuel up with the group.

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After this, if you continue, the road is single lane paved along with a hundred-foot drop off into the canyon. Portions of it we call The Death Road, as several portions resemble the more-famous Bolivian Death Road.

Cecilville has fuel, but it's a wee pricey at $8 a gallon. But it's the only fuel for a 45-mile radius.



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