Here is the action! Movies made with helmet cams, still images, handheld video cameras, and some music mixed in.

This folder spans our entire experience of off-road adventures, and a couple of on-road ones too. Lots of memories in here, and lots of striking, piognant, or just interesting pictures.

Evano came down from Canada, bought the ATV I was selling, and rode with us today. A great time was had by all.

Got Mike on a quad for the first time, and he kicked ass. Must be all of that snowmobile experience, ATVs ride sort of like snowmobiles. He did crash a couple of times though. I call it initiation.

Conconully is a very nice place to ride. The scenery is amazing in June, there isn't a lot of traffic to worry about, and the service roads connecting the trails are very smooth and well-kept, for some great high-speed riding. The locals are friendly, and you can ride your ATV through town to pick up gas/groceries/etc.

Angel had ridden before, but Kat and Peet had not, and Angela was a passenger. Took the motorhome to Reiter and had a pretty good day. It was more or less a milk run for me, but keeping track of noobs had me just as worn out as them by the time we were done. The MH provided great shade, seating, cold drinks, and sandwich fixings to make us more comfortable. All in all a good riding day.

1990 Tioga 21ft Class C. Two double beds that convert from couch/booth dinette, one queen over the cab. All of the other usual motorhome goodies, plus something extra - a 20" LCD TV and DVD player installed by the previous owner!

Met up with three guys from the Northwest Quad Assocation (http://www.northwestquad.org) and took the Green Dots by storm! We did a great 45-mile run, and everyone had a blast. We surprised some single-track guys by how fast we were moving, and showed them some good trails.

Dragged Angela along on the back in a "Moose Diplomat" back seat. Well, technically it's a "no passengers" trunk, but nobody is fooled. She had a good time. Next time, we'll try to go somewhere less bouncy - but this was a good proof of concept for ATVing and camping trips.

The trailer that I can tow behind my ATV needed some work to make it useful for hauling rocks/gravel as well as for hauling camping gear. We replaced the axle and suspension, and built a new bed for it.

Steamin and Snowin (and getting stuck in the snow which wasn't as much fun).

Lotsa deep water to play in!

First trip to Reiter after the big rain storms. Lots of things got washed out. It was pretty treacherous, especially if you went fast because you "knew" those trails - watch out for the 3-foot rut that wasn't there before!

Small but decent set of sand dunes near Beverly, WA. Also had some trails that run through trees and mud. Had some deep circles in the sand to really dig in and lean over in. Pretty fun, for sand anyway.

Went on an overnighter with Dad and Eugene. The night riding was challenging and fun. The overheating ATV due to mud caked in the radiator wasn't a lot of fun, and neither was the drowning that occurred when we tried to soak the radiator in the river. Dad's thumb got sprained too. I bent a tie rod, and the trailer tried to kill me when the ramp slipped. All in all it was a good trip, but we'd have liked it a lot more with fewer problems.

Test run for Dad's new rig. Got all four of us on one ride together - a rare occurence indeed! Went for some good mud bogging as well as seeing the sights.

Started out great, rode some really rough stuff and went to Wallace Falls. On the way back, though, we had an unfortunate accident.

Found a really great trail called 4W311. Only runs about 7 miles, but awesome riding.

This time we drove down a crazy bumpy dirt road with the truck and unloaded near the edge of "known space" to explore further out. Found a great section of trail by the river, but it's terribly bumpy on the way there - not sure if it's worth going there again.

Another marathon run at Vantage. Met up with Bob at Vantage, and the three of us headed out. Bob took a nasty spill and got hurt, unfortunately. Cracked two ribs and got bruised up quite a bit. Get well quickly, Bob!

This time we put in 72 miles in one day. We found that the Prairie switched over to reserve at about 70 miles, and the Brute Force was on its last fuel bar and was flashing, but made it back to the truck - so they probably have about the same range. They both had gas left when they got back to the truck. (We were also carrying 2-gallon gas cans).

Week-long snowmobiling trip to West Yellowstone with Mike and friends. Had some good times, had some less than good times. Overall it was a good experience.

Went snowmobiling with Mike to a place called Sugar Loaf Lookout - a tiny cabin at the peak of a windy snowy mountain, where people watch for forest fires.

Not many other people around when it's this cold. Very peaceful.

Snow and ice! Cold, but fun. Brrr!

Just some extras I had laying around...

Got my dad out riding ATVs with me. He picked it right up, despite never riding one before. Beats the hell out of fishing!

Mad River has a great variety of terrain, from easy to extremely hard. You can go from wide open flat trails of smooth dirt to rocky twisty trails where you can barely make out the path, to snowy muddy trails in just a few miles.

The Manastash Campground and Riders Campground are an excellent jumping-off point for many different types of riding. You've got some twisty narrow ATV trail, some steep bumpy jeep trail, and some gentle rolling service road stuff all nearby.

Fresh meat! Today we introduced Jeff to the world of ATV torture. Index Wall again.

We got lucky - it had just rained, but wasn't actively raining. There was a cloud cover when we arrived, and we got to check things out in excellent conditions. The sun came out a few hours later, and we left before getting burnt to a crisp.

Oh, the joys of warm weather and lots of mud. This time the damage to the vehicles was more severe, but nobody got hurt.