Cabin
Fever Run
(a.k.a. Beatty Butt Run)
20..22 Feb 2009
Posted: 29 March 2009, 3 PM
Friday evening...they met at Rhyolite...a coupld of miles
west of Beatty for our traditional
"wine and cheese evening...to watch the sun go down".
Weather was a bit cool and iffy!
The western entrance to Death Valley....
(With her heavy gloves on...Judy managed
to reset her camera on gray-scale...with
yellow-green being the only color recorded.)
we ride thru fine alkali dust....
Friday group riding from Beatty. Where are they?
finally showed up at Scotty's Castle with their story (see below).
Here's a summary of what happened to
the Friday group...
attempting to reach Scotty's Castle:
The Friday group was on HWY95 north
of Beatty.
At the intersection with HWY267 to Scotty's Castle...
Bland noticed that he'd lost electrical power -- no turn signals.
So he turned wide and rode into the huge empty asphalt pad on the
northwest corner of the intersection. The other riders thought
Bland had merely missed the turn. They made the turn...
and slowed down to see what Bland was signaling.
In the process...at approx. 3 MPH...Chris stopped
and Randy didn't! Both bikes went down. Randy's Debbie9
unfortunately broke her ankle. Chris's wife Kim was riding
with Bland...so missed the center of the excitement!
Bland called for a tow for his and Chris's bikes to be taken
back to the Stagecoach in Beatty.
Bland rode Billee's bike home in Ridgecrest...picked up
his diesel and trailer...drove back to the Stagecoach to pick up
his and Chris's bikes to trailer home. Randy's bike was ridable...
so he rode home and took Billee and Bland's Tahoe back to
Tonapah to retrieve Debbie9 and Billee. sigh
some gathered in a room for some friendly conversation.
Cheryl got a Royal Flush worth $1200+ playing video poker
Saturday evening at the bar! Then Sunday morning...Dwight
sat at the very same spot...and also got a Royal Flush...but
playing only one quarter got $72! Pretty darn impressive!
