I wanted some lockable storage for stuff and kept toying with a Pelican Case but was fussing with the install hardware I needed to prefabricate. Come to find that there is a company (
CCS Corp./Caribou Luggage Systems - http://cariboucases.com) that takes the Pelican cases and builds a bolt up system with an integrated lock that simply rocks. I am usually a CBOA kind of guy, but this was just too sweet, thanks Roger!
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| The Route |
Case installed, it was time to beat it up a little with the ride I got smacked down with last weekend. Without any moisture to contend with I rode out and made it past Palisades and the Billingsly Ranch. The countryside is rich from lava flows and the Great Lake Missoula ice dam breakage 10,000+ years ago that flooded and cut out the valleys we see in the Columbia Basin to Wenatchee today.
Touring across Road 24 to Sagebrush Flats Road was an interesting ride.
I ran across several dead ends where the road continued but access to it didn't, no map or GPS will tell you what has been US Government closed...
Once to Sagebrush Flats, I shot East to Road J, then to Oventon Road and Road 20, then to Baird Springs Road connecting to Highway 28 at Trinidad and back in to Wenatchee.
This must have been a major road once, with the rail posts and (once upon a time) ropes or cables.
Amazing things to see... a tunnel cut through the hillside where a train runs, a Reclamation waterfall, assorted ranches managing to eek out an existence.
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| There really is a Baird Springs |
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| Tunnel under RailRoad |
The wind about beat me to death on the way back... but it's an adventure, eh?
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