Dayton to Troy July '08

Hey all, I was asked to post some pics of a ride my bother and I made last month. We met up in Dayton WA at 9:00 AM then rode up Patit Creek into the Tucannon river. Then up the Blind Grade road and wound around to FS road 40. Up past the Clearwater Lookout and then down into Troy Oregon. Yes its a town but not very big. I love this place. They have some pavement but to get there you must ride on gravel. We then rode up the mountains again and crossed over to Enterprise Oregon on hiway 3. We rode up to Wallowa Lake and drank some pop and looked around. (sorry no pics of that) then headed home through Elgin Oregon and over SR 204 into Milton Freewater. From there I headed west an home to Kennewick and got home about 10:00PM. BTW, never mind the dates stamped on the pics, I had the camera set wrong. We did this ride the weekend after the 4th of July.









Here we are before dropping down into Troy.





And this is Troy.



Here is looking back down into Troy with the Grande Round River.



This is the Forest Service Headquarters at Enterprise Oregon.



And a pic of the Eagle Cap wilderness area.



By the way, my bike is the Red and Silver '07 and my brothers is the other one.

Beautiful country!

YamWOW! wrote:

Beautiful country!

Indeed! Thanks for posting!

Yes, that is some reallly nice country. I think that is one of my favorite routes for dual sporting, makes for a long day leaving from my house but well worth it.

Les,

What's the mileage on that loop?

Nice pictures

From my house in Kennewick and back is around 350 or so miles.

I've done that ride! I want to do it again. The first time I didn't know where I was.

Les Peterson wrote:

Is there any overnight camping besides the Shilo Inn's affordable excellence? It would be fun to make this trip an over nighter.

Seems to me that there is some campgrounds but I have no information on them. I know that during hunting season the place is crawling with hunters though and it looks like RV heaven.

I plan on putting a trip together this summer to Troy. This time I am thinking about takine two days and riding around the back side of the Wallowa's and overnighting in Baker City, or better yet camping out at Richland Or near Brown Lee res. Then maybe riding through Sumpter/Granite area, down the north fork of the John Day river and out to Pendleton and home. That would make for a long ride even spread over two days though. My friends on the DR650's would need lots of extra gas too. We'll have to see how the spring melt goes before making any real plans though.

Focker wrote:

Les Peterson wrote:

Is there any overnight camping besides the Shilo Inn's affordable excellence? It would be fun to make this trip an over nighter.

This would be a fun 2 day trip to shake down our gear for the OBCDR. Looks like a lot of fun

Hodakaguy