Friday's rule!!!

 Yesterday was awesome.  Seems Friday's always give me really good perspective on how lucky I am to have the ability to have Friday's off.  When you break it down and really think about it, that is 52 days more a year off than if I only had two day weekends.  That is over 7 weeks of days off a year just with Fridays.  Sooooooooo, I remember this when I get up at 5:30 every morning and hitting the office at 6 am.  No matter what happens during my work week, I continually have Friday at the end of the tunnel to look forward to.  Fridays are my go to day to ride motorsports.  Not that our mountains really ever have anyone in them, but on Friday's they are even less crowded.  Yesterday was one of those days that you just want to put on slow motion, bottle it, and try to squeeze 32 hours out of the standard 24.  

Drew, enjoying the view at 10,000 ft high in the Palisades Range, south of Jackson.  

 Indian Creek Divide.  Amazing.  Allow a rant if you will..............., this quite simply is what makes moto so appealing to me.  We are 25 miles to the nearest pavement here.  It would take two full, full days to walk there.  If one wanted to mountain bike there, well, it would take the same amount of time as you would have your bike on your back the whole ride.  Moto gets one so deep in the backcountry and allows you to see terrain that you wouldn't normally get to see.  Drew and I had been up in this area a couple of times on sleds before, its a "really big" area.  Huge peaks, climbs, and passes.  Friday was the last day it was open for the season, it closes for hunting in the fall.  

 Off the divide, heading down 4,000ft.  Buffed single track at 10,000 ft with not a soul around for miles.  Does it get any better?

 Big country!!!  Drew, looking very small to scale going down the headwaters of the South Fork of Indian Creek.

 There was a ton of "no fall" zones on the way out.  Lots of sidehills with pretty serious consequences.

After a ten mile downhill, we came out to the what once was Palisades Reservoir!   Idaho sucked Wyomings water almost dry this summer.  Between irrigation needs for potatoes and dairy cattle, our waterways are as low as anyone can ever remember.  Scope the sides of the reservoir in the shot.  The lake level is down probably 50-60 ft!!!  

 What, a big adventure and we made it back to the truck before dark?  That never happens!  

Not to be outdone by Scuba Steve, Drew picked up a new YZ 450 of his own yesterday.  This bike will never, ever look like this again!  Priorities clearly appropriate.  A $7000 moto and a $700 truck.  Drew abides.