Twenty-two of our club members participated in visiting one or more of the 2013 Challenge sites. The four club members who made the bronze tire level (10-19 sites visited) are Gordon White, Ronald Schinnerer, Eric Exline and James Wilson. Another… Read More »Recap of the 2013 IAMC Challenge
Rigging and loading my custom-built Happy Trails Products Kawasaki KLR 650 for the first multi-day ride of the year brought a Cheshire grin to my mug. I hadn’t been out for a proper ride since the previous September, meaning a… Read More »Tour De Rad
The Wallowa Valley Jamboree is an annual event that is held in Enterprise Oregon. It is coordinated through a thread in the Pacific North Wet forum on Adventure Rider. Our own IdahoSam is one of the original founders of this… Read More »Ride to the Wallowa Valley Adventure Jamboree 2014
posted the ride late in January, and by early March I already had a full 8 man roster. I was pleasantly surprised at the quick response, but then had requests from other individuals asking if I was really going to… Read More »Leading a Ride Group to the 2014 Wallowa Valley Adventure Jamboree
When I visited Bell Mountain Lookout in mid September, about three months ager Wayne Smith’s post, I was greeted to a view without a room! The lookout was in the process of being torn down. All that remained was a… Read More »Sheep Falls: A Good Ride and a Wild Hike
Do I always make it to every site? Nope. Do I and my bike always come back unscathed and unmarred? Nope. But for me, that is what I love about the Challenge. I have seen more of Idaho and surrounding… Read More »Some thoughts on my experience with the IAMC Challenge 2014
The 2014 IAMC Challenge was another huge success and another great year to be riding the back roads of Idaho to visit the many challenge sites. This year I was able to visit, or get close to, 34 sites and… Read More »2014 IAMC Challenge: A Room with a View
There are not many World War II era military plane crashes in Idaho, and one of those is a B-23 crash site, the only one in the state. It is located at the south end of Loon Lake, a small… Read More »The B-23 Crash Site at Loon Lake
Launched on April 3, 1860, the Pony Express connected California in the far West with the Eastern United States with the fastest means of communication up to that Mme – approximately ten days of hard, fast riding between St. Joseph,… Read More »Utah & Wyoming Pony Express Ride
This last year was challenging for a number of reasons, be it available vaca&on, motorcycle maintenance and opera&on, or my lack of organizational skills and &me management. There were sacrifices made and chances taken, but during the adventures, I was… Read More »Dust, Bugs, and Thousands of miles