I have 7 years of sidecar trips and roughly 2.3 gazillion pictures and I can get carried away with posting. My other hobby is photography, um, of sidecars and mountains so not a lot of venues available. At the other place I used to hang out , you post a picture and after a week or so, it's never seen again. So I guess I'll keep going until someone yells at me or something.
This is from 2017 so road conditions are not guaranteed. Some of the best dispersed wild camping , but campgrounds are very popular, so reservations if that's your preference. Occasionally in the summer Salt Lake City and the entire Wasatch front empties into the Uinta Mountains so watch out for holidays.
Map: Uinta North Slope
Looks like a fine story to submit to the Sidecarist magazine along with the photos....
That's my "back yard" Love the Ashley NF, Uintas and Wasatch Mountains. 🙂
I'll second what Tom said; Would be very cool to read your adventure in the Sidecarist.
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Well, thank you kindly but that's 7 years ago and the way things go with forest maintenance, might not even be doable now. I kind of made a web page cataloging my personal travels (the ones I'll admit to) on motorcycles since 2010 and sidecar outfits since 2016. HERE And most of my motorcycle pics are HERE. So I was posting on this thread on a route by route basis. I wrote up most of my trips on ADVrider but none since 2021. I can dig some of them out if anyone is interested. Maybe I'll write an expose'/ ride report about some of the characters on this branch of the internet. Never can tell...
Quote from metalcarver on December 10, 2023, 9:47 pmWell, thank you kindly but that's 7 years ago and the way things go with forest maintenance, might not even be doable now. I kind of made a web page cataloging my personal travels (the ones I'll admit to) on motorcycles since 2010 and sidecar outfits since 2016. HERE And most of my motorcycle pics are HERE. So I was posting on this thread on a route by route basis. I wrote up most of my trips on ADVrider but none since 2021. I can dig some of them out if anyone is interested. Maybe I'll write an expose'/ ride report about some of the characters on this branch of the internet. Never can tell...
Sounds like some pretty fun reads. For us newb's, it is great to learn from all those who have come before. Then when we do the same silly things we can say. "We were just following in our mentors footsteps." 😉
As an example, there is a pretty good chance I'll be riding those trails this summer. Want to get some good off road time & camp trips in before attempting the Utah BDR on SYZ in the fall.
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Advice from me is questionable at best. My introduction to sidecars was because I had a stroke. It was obvious at the time that I wouldn't be riding on two wheels anymore, and right then an Ural came up for sale. I was in Idaho so no sidecar training required. I had to take sidecar training in Washington and realized too late that it was much less painful than learning on my own. I've only been on the road with another sidecarist once. But for off pavement stuff, just practice turning around. Don't go beyond that amount of room on the road unless you know what's at the other end. Cowardice is commendable. Pilots (the old ones anyway) know where they're going to land before taking off.
I have the MVUMs but I've come to think of them more as a legal document. I usually have paper map backup anyway, but I've found that I use Gaia most of the time now. You can download maps on to your phone. And the phone gps works from satellite and not cell tower. I'm not sure if the coverage is as good as Garmin, and they bought InReach which has the Iridium network which you need in Alaska and northern areas. But Gaia (the $40/yr version) has a lot of map layers like MVUM, USGS quads, satellite, road maps, current fire and weather layers. Then it plops a little triangle right on the map right where you are. Not much understanding needed.
Oh yeah, and with a sidecar it's not camping, it's glamping. Stand up tent, cot, barbeque, cooler, lounge chair, flood lights, entertainment center - you know, the usual stuff.
Quote from metalcarver on December 11, 2023, 12:59 pmAdvice from me is questionable at best. ...
Perfect! Then copying your exploits, has the opportunity for adventurous "experience" lessons. 😉 I'm already looking forward to your next ride report! 🙂
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Metalcarver, just clicked on the "Map" link you posted above. Wow! That's a lot of traveling. I've only just started to explore all those trips. Looked at Wyoming. The first thing I noticed is how many of your Wyoming roads are MY Wyoming roads! Are you shadowing me? Or maybe I've been shadowing you? LOL
Amazing that you recorded all those trips then uploaded the GPX files. What a lot of work! I mean, I know where I've been but it's all up in my head. Your GPX files make those trips so real. I'm starting to plan for Summer 2024 and I think your files might give me some great ideas.
They are also great fodder for mini-trip reports. Each one of those segments could be a thread. You could probably do a Lander Cut-Off report with ten pics and ten paragraphs. Or a Union Pass report with five pics and five paragraphs.
They also might inspire me to do some minis. I'm always thinking that my two-week and three-week trips are much too much for publication, but there's no reason not to break it down and just do a report on one day of a longer trip. Makes it much more doable. And more readable. Hmmmm . . .
Have owned 5 rigs but Rig #2 is my current one!
Actually Gaia imports files from Google Earth which is where most of it started. But as far as the routes, I'm not sure I ever went on one of my planned trips without it going sideways at one point or another. At least it proves that at one point in time a sidecar went there and survived. Those are the results.
Hey, you're kind of close and if you're riding again, let's meet halfway...
