Passing on turns in a construction zone. The officer had mercy on us and spared us the $300 tickets.
2007 SPAMS Ride - Day 1 - 8/16/2007
Passing on turns in a construction zone. The officer had mercy on us
and spared us the $300 tickets.
Helicopter picking up troops that were searching for pot farmers in the local
hills.
Allan
Radek
Paul and John
John's Day 1 ride report:
Radek, Paul and I met Adam and Alan at The Eatery in
Rockport and the headed out to Winthrop and then NW to Tonasket
and thru Sherman Pass. In Tonasket we met a Border Patrol officer with a horse
and they patrol the border so that was our
first horse experience of the trip.
We encountered some road work so we stopped and waited.
As we were let thru we had a few cars in front of us and some trucks.
There was no double yellow line and the vehicles were not using the turnouts so
we started some slow passes up the ridge. At the
top was another stop but with a unmarked Ferry County Sheriff pulling in behind
us. We thought we were cooked especially
me since I was in the lead. The sheriff was calm about explaining to us even
without double lines and no one using the turnouts
we shouldn't have been passing. He ran our licenses and the only thing that
popped up was that incident in Oregon where I passed
the unmarked trooper with Paul and Greg (did really happen in 2004 but was not
brought up by officer friendly) Anyway he let
us go with a warning and about the same time a huge Chinook came into the pass
and landed on the road in front of us with the
turbines and blades in motion. They were picking up troops and deputies who were
clearing pot plants in the forest. We thought
they were there to give us a lift with the bikes to the jail or up to Schweitzer
to our condo! We headed off and later as I was
in the back of the line I had a close call with a logging truck when he was
coming around a turn and I was leaning into the turn and
one of the logs had a big branch sticking out of it with leaves. I could had a
choice straighten the bike up and go off the road or
flick out of the way and then lean into the turn to make it. I did just that
but didn't panic with the brakes I just let off some gas
and leaned more.
Whew!!!. After slipping on some circular stairs at the
condo at Schweitzer Mountain but not breaking my neck I figured my guardian
angel was watching.
We had a nice dinner where Radek wanted a bucket of soup
which wasnt quite available so he had to settle for a bowl then it was off
to the Jacuzzi for some rest.