Mad River Trail Ride
September 13th 2002
The Mad River area is probably the best off road dirt bike area in
the state. Four of us decided to take a sunny Friday off and enjoy
the day. Mike and I have been coming up here for several years. This
was Dan and Kevin's first time up in this area. Click on the icon
to see where this area is relative to the Everett WA. 
Riders ( bike )
Kevin Summers ( Honda XR400 )
Dan Jamieson ( Honda XR400 )
Mike Jamieson ( Yamaha 400 )
Mark Hastings ( Honda XR500 )
I carried a Gamin GPS to track our path. It tracks about 85%
of the time because of the steep canyons and thick trees. It would
probably work much better if I glued an external antenna to my helmet,
but that's going a bit too far. The total trip was about 82 miles.
The GPS logged about 72 miles because of how twisted the trails are
and loosing lock once in a while. Click the Icon to see a 3D plot
of our trip. 
Our trip in marked in red. Using Delorme's Topo USA I generated
an elevation profile of the trip. You can see that at times the
bike ( and the rider ) get a pretty good workout. 
I also brought along a digital camera to get a few shots of the area
and the bikers on the trip. The pictures are arranged in groups
for each stop that we made. Click on the camera Icon to view the
pictures. 
The pictures here have been reduced to 640x480 to make downloading
quicker. For just the full size pictures without the cool map, click here.
I have only two rules for dirt bike riding;
- Have a good time.
- Ride the bike out.
Mark Hastings
Our trip in marked in red. Using Delorme's Topo USA I generated
an elevation profile of the trip. You can see that at times the
bike ( and the rider ) get a pretty good workout. 