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My buddy and I decided to make the easy ride to the summit of Pelican Butte. The majority of the trails are flat graded roads but it is an impressive 3800' verticle climb to the summit.

Ready to go!


Several creek crossings on the way.




Still a little snow on the way up


The cinder in the soil causes the snow to look blood red this time of year.


Great views from the +8000' summit






On the way down we took a trail that has a little mud where we found two guys on sport quads having a tough time. My tire fell into a very deep rut and caused me to slowly roll over and crawl around in the mud.








Good times

great pics and nice video! you guys have some beautiful country!

Nice Ride I liked the mud bog event

I thought he said it was the guys on the sports quads that were having a tough time. Looks like a fun ride. Nice photos.

looks like great fun and cool pics

next time i go to up north i will clue you in i may able to spend a day and ride. great pics i like the mud and the view of shasta.

Anytime you come up this way let me know, lots of great riding. That is Mt Mclaughlin in So. Oregon. You chan see Shasta to the south but I did not take any pictrues of it.

oh it looks very like shasta that is cool i will let you know.

Wow! That looks like some outstanding country. I need to move north.
Good mud bog video, you have a future on Adventure World TV (unofficial tag line: "jackass for old guys").

I could be wrong i have been before. But the red stuff in the snow is iodine from the cloud seaters. It's the same way around here.

Chadd wrote:But the red stuff in the snow is iodine from the cloud seaters.

chadd can you explain what a cloud seater is? i saw some of this red snow near bowman lake 2 weeks ago and couldn't figure it out

I think he meant cloud SEEDER - i.e. a plane that drops crap into a rain cloud to get the party started (rain).

Rain droplets form around tiny dust particles, so dumping a bunch of crap into a moisture laden cloud will prompt rainfall.

Your science lesson for the day.

i must of been "out" that day in science class, thanx.......

They do not seed the clouds up here that I know of, but I could be wrong. We do have a LOT of red cinders in areas that have that same color.

They use Cloud SEEDERS all over northern california. Cal water, Pge, Municipale water districts use them to maximize precip from every rain cloud. they are mostly land based on peaks and such. The red stuff is from iodide that is realesed into the air during storms.