08-10-14 - Teanaway II

Subject: 08-10-14 - Teanaway II 8/15/2014, 10:42 am

Test vid
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Went for an overnight ride to Gallagher Head Lake in Teanaway, WA with my friend Lenny on his KTM 350EXC-F and on my FE390.

Going up Hex Mountain
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Hex Mountain. You can see some smoke in the distance from wildfires, and Mt Rainier just barely in the distance.
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Did a little mine exploring as well.. .
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We were trying to find an old abandoned trail around the south upper flank of the mountain, but after getting to this point the trail petered out into a game trail littered with blowdowns.
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Watching the sunset from Hawkins Mountain
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So we rode through the night to Gallagher Head Lake on the main trail.
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Night shot of Gallagher Lake
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After breakfast we rode to Middle Fork of the Teanaway River.
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smoke started to blow in from forest fires burning south of this area.
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We encountered countless blowdowns..
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We cleared most of them.. this one was fun to push down the bank
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Shortly after this point we both grew hot and tired, so we decided to turn and head up to Jolly Mountain
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The switchbacks up the last part of Jolly Creek are difficult with a loaded saddlebag and saw on the bike.
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Took a break to enjoy the view
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Mt Stuart in the background
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Gallagher Head Lake is two ridges over
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We dropped our saddlebags for a quick jaunt up to the old lookout site on Jolly. We were going to ride down to Yellow Hill but it was getting too late. Next time!
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