Decided to spend a few days at Coe Hill before heading over to Ken
Hoeverman's cottage at Crystal Lake for the "5 Rides Weekend". If
you've never been to this part of Ontario you have no idea what you are
missing. I've lived in Ontario for over 30 years now and can't believe
that I've never toured around here before Brian's "Hastings Ride" last
October. I'll be back whenever I get the chance as the roads, scenery,
and trails are unbeatable. The weather was perfect at first - cool enough
to keep the bugs down for a few days - but then warmed up a lot and, sure
enough, the blackflies appeared in huge swarms.
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Loaded and ready to roll again..
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The Gut, near Coe Hill, needed
the DR350 to reach it
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Never been to Algonquin Park before so took a trip over to Haliburton,
Dorset, and then took Hwy 60 through Algonquin. Long ride - over
500 Km - but with roads like this you hardly notice you've spent 12 hours
on the bike.
Algonquin
Park
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Entering the Park
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Lake of Two Rivers
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Lunch break at Tea Lake
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Rock Lake Road
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Red Rock Road, Round Lake
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The Fire Tower at Dorset
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Did anybody notice?
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Burleigh Falls
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Haliburton
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Guiney Road
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Old Hastings Road
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How could you resist with a
name like this?
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Crystal
Lake
After four days of glorious back roads - how about an ODSC "5 Rides
RANT" in the Fall? - culminating on what I'd say is the absolute best bike
road in Ontario (but that's my secret for now), it was time to head
for Crystal Lake, near Kinmount. The blackflies were impossible by now
and I noticed the locals were all wearing bug jackets, so I picked one
up at the gas station on the way to Ken's cottage.
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Bob wearing his "screen door"
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The start of Saturday morning's
ride
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Dave, Bob, and Garry
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Dave Griffiths doing the water
crossing just off E108
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Bob riding some mud/rocky sections
on the way to Trappers Inn
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Popsicle break at Trappers
Inn. Gary, Dave and Garry
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In the Saturday afternoon ride, I ended up with the "fast" guys after
the rest of the group took a wrong turn. These guys don't stop for
pictures - sorry. On Sunday I headed out on the KLR as the DR350
was out of action with a broken throttle cable. It started out as
a RANT, but I saw the Victoria Rail Trail so headed down there for a while
and then saw the Ganaraska Snowmobile Trail so I headed up there to Minden.
Toured around Carnarvon, Ox Narrows, Fort Irwin, and Haliburton on some
great roads and then headed back for another blast down the "famous" Hwy
507 to wrap up a great 6 days of roads, trails, mud, rocks, water - Dual
Sport riding at its best.
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