This ride is over.

Something happened with the camera. It did not geotag any photos. I'm not sure what's up and beyond that, whatever error caused that is now confusing my photo upload code. I'll have to mess with it tomorrow.

Why do I always run into problems like this right before I'm about to go on a trip? It's confounding.

Ridge Road on the northern end became much rockier and rutted than anything we encountered anywhere else. It was like riding a jack hammer. Unfortunately, the rattling overpowered the GPS mount and it went flying. On urging from ryan647 and buffalo, we turned around and looked for it. I was convinced we wouldn't find it but after a couple of miles I did actually find the thing lying on top of the muck apparently undamaged. 

This meant however that we didn't get an accurate mileage count since I didn't trust the mount over this terrain. 

Using the trip meter from the gas station and noting mileages when we filled up and once I got home it looks like we did:

298.8 miles. This is not bad considering there was a DR200 in the mix.

DR200 1.91 gals 134.7 miles

DR200 1.825 gals 89.4 miles

Yermo has pulled the sidestand up and is underway.

This ride is now underway.

We'll see how the plan works out. For trips like this I desperately need to finish the app so I can mark which roads go through, which are unpaved, which are good. I've picked a route that more than likely will not go through but once up in the fire service road system there are countless roads all over the place to explore so we can wing it once up ther.

buffalo is going on DR (2004 Suzuki DR650SE).

I've posted an initial plan just tracing out a route over what OSM says are unpaved roads. I suspect we'll end up having to guy wing it as many of these roads will either have trees down or be closed, but we'll see.

I'll do some more tomorrow. Tired now.

From Beltsville it's 73 miles to the dirt.

Yermo is going on The Mule (2009 Suzuki DR650SE).