Backside of Big Bear...

Took an amazing ride Monday up the backside of the San Bernardino Mountains and down to Big Bear Lake...

The first part of the ride was a fire road with spectacular views of the valley below, and 72 degrees of warm riding air...



At a location called Bear Creek I found a cool bridge to ride around under



Still warm I decided to take a small dip in a puddle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZJBgGdas2g
(and you wonder why I go through a new camera every year, what with the muddy splash on the lens)

Found an amazing place at the bottom of a trail to go through a deep bog



Which of course I had to film...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R52lUE0H8_M

After that I came across a rope swing, and instantly turned 6 years old again...



Eventually I made it over the summit, and this is where things started to get hairy...



On the north facing side of the mountain, the snow bcame so deep in places I couldn't ride the bike, and had to push it along...



Eventually I made it to Big Bear Lake, with soaking wet socks. Had to go around a locked gate (would have never made it back up the mountain). Sh!t eating grin well deserved...



Took the winding, beautiful 2 lane highway back down past the lake to where I parked my truck...



About 70 miles total...

Looks like a good time.

I wish we had no-jacket-on-a-rope-swing weather over here right now. :)

Love it, Gus! I always look forward to seeing your stuff. Shit eating grin...

Good thing I had the larger tank, I used 1.6 gallons and would have only had .3 left on the original tank...

And today it's storming here and snowing hard in those mountains. Good timing....

Gus: WHATTAYACRAZY ? ? ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET ON A ROPE SWING !

Yeah, that was probably the riskiest no helmet shot i took all day... :)

Are you using a remote to trigger the shutter, or what? Fun pictures.

A Casio high speed camera that waits to take the picture until it sees movement...

I bought a camcorder (as I think they were called) back when they first became the rage around 1986.
I still have it, though after several seasons of taping our off-road riding with VHS tapes, it took one grain of dirt too many and bit the dust.
Literally. :)

Wow, i haven't seen the word "VHS" in a long time... :)

Yup.
I used to have a mountain of those that came out of that mentioned camcorder, but, "lending" them to my riding pals actually turned into giving them away. :)