Bar 10 Ranch/Grand Canyon - May 1 & 2

[Crawdaddy]

I’ve finalized plans for the annual Spring Ride to Bar 10. I’ve pushed our originally reserved date of April 17-18 out two weeks to May 1st & 2nd to avoid conflicts at Bar 10 and also buy us some more time since the theme (hope) for this year is NO RAIN/SNOW/CLAY! The revised dates *should* provide an additional hedge against rain/snow.

This ride is intended for "street" plated bikes/quads with street licensed riders - Navigation will be by GPS. More on that subject later.

I plan on lining up a truck/driver to shuttle SMALL over night bags, beer/soda to the Ranch (FYI, there is no bar at the Bar 10 Ranch ).

Gas is available at the ranch for double the prevailing rate in St. George (they have to truck it over from St. George)......so plan on ~$7/gallon (cash)

The cost for the Bar 10 portion of the club ride will be $135 pp for one night or $250 pp for 2 nights…….this covers shuttle of SMALL overnight bag to Bar 10 from Mesquite, lodging at Bar 10, dinner on Sunday, breakfast/dinner on Monday, breakfast on Tuesday.

Bonus - A sack lunch will be provided to everyone on Monday so we can eat our lunch over at the Toroweap viewpoint.

Payments are to be made direcly to the Bar 10. A depost of $135 pp is due no later than 31 January (to assure Bar 10 of the headcount so they don't book any other groups on our dates.......that way we'll have the place to ourselves ).......Payment of the balance of $115 pp will be due no later than 28 February....You're free to stay one night only, but I encourage everyone to stay two nights......you really don't want to miss the ride over to Toroweap/the views at Toroweap.

I'm limiting this club ride to 50 people - so call in ASAP with your deposit to avoid getting shut out

Bar 10 contact info - 435 628 4010 or 800 582 4139 "CORE Club Ride"

Tentative Plan:

Option

Drive to Primm Friday, April 29th.

Sat., April 30th - Ride over to Bonnie Springs for breakfast, swing through Red Rock Canyon/Mountain Springs on the way back to Primm or Good Springs, then drive up to Mesquite on Sat night. (A shorter/easier option is to drive from Primm to Good Springs on Saturday morning and loop from there). I enjoy this optional ride so I'll definitely be doing it......any/all are welcome to participate. I'll look into a group rate in Primm once I have a head count of riders interested in this optional day.

CORE Club Ride - Mesquite to Bar 10/Toroweap

Saturday, April 30th

Drive to Mesquite, NV. and stay the night (I haven’t figured out where we’re staying yet……working on swinging a group rate somewhere once the headcount is finalized)

Sunday, May 1st -

Ride to Bar 10 (~85 miles), refuel, drop down to the river view (~18 mile round trip), dinner at the ranch.

Teaser: Grand Canyon/CO. River View Pt near the Bar 10 Ranch:



Monday, May 2nd

Ranch breakfast, ride to Toroweap view point for lunch, ride back to the Ranch (~100 mile out and back). Optional paths to ride/drive over……Rocky trail between Petty Knoll and Slide Mtn, or easier/graded fire roads that head out to Trumbull School house before turning east past Mt. Trumbull……either path will take the riders up to ~7K’ before dropping down to Toroweap

Teaser: Toroweap Viewpoint/picnic site:



Tuesday, May 3rd

Ride back to Mesquite…….a few options for return path…….more on that later

Tuesday night – I'll likley just stay in Primm again rather than drive home........it’s only ~$20 to stay midweek in Primm and you may be bushed after 3 or 4 ~100 days of riding .........you can still jam into work by noon on Wednesday if you stay in Primm.......so I'd encourage everyone to relax/unwind Tuesday night and head into work refreshed on Wed.......or better yet, take Wed off too!

More Teaser pics: Link to Zina’s Trip Report from the 2010 ride: http://dualsport-sd.com/forums/index.ph ... om-bar-10/

The Bar 10"in" list as of 1/28

• 1 Chris Crawford
• 2 Roger Sewell
• 3 Rex Roberson
• 4 Dale Jackson
• 5 Chris Nelson
• 6 Chris Nelson's Friend
• 7 Bill Hallstrom
• 8 Ronald Rickwald
• 9 Jonathan Rickwald
• 10 Ted Garrington
• 11 Janet Garrington
• 12 David Cummings
• 13 Rich Strauss
• 14 Bruce Belnap
• 15 Diane Belnap
• 16 Wayne Schmidt
• 17 Zina Powers
• 18 Don Dowis
• 19 Michael Shinkle
• 20 Kevin Henricksen
• 21 Jim Robinette
• 22 Shannon Robinette
• 23 Neil Winnemore
• 24 Rich Wohlers
• 25 Sean Tompkins
• 26 Erick Magnuson
• 27 Ben Eckwahl
• 28 Dean Howard
• 29 John O’Hanlon
• 30 Victor Hrock
• 31 Henry Mckinney
• 32 Larry Mckinney
• 33 Terry Eannetta
• 34 Brian Bezer
• 35 Laurie Bezer
• 36 Paul Hatten
• 37 Bill Anderson
• 38 Gregg Turk
• 39 Brian Holbrook
• 40 John Tallon

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• 41 Dave Dempster
• 42 Kristopher Grable
• 43 Bob Laprade
• 44 Jim Martin
• 45 Russ May

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• 46 Andrew McDaniel
• 47 Mike Braddy
• 48 Saul Spykerman

BAR 10 LODGING -

Reminder - there are 14 covered wagons (capacity 2/wagon) , 20 bunks in the lodge, and capacity for spill over on the main deck/under the stars.

ANY NEW REGISTRANTS beyond the 42 currently signed up will be out on the main deck/under the stars in sleeping bags/on mats......along with me and Roger.....we'll probably need a few more deck volunteers unless some of you opt to double up in the wagons

20 guests will be in the bunkhouse (2 bunks or 4 guests/room). 7 wagons are available as single or double occupancy.

[Hobiee]

In for two please. Will have money for you shortly. Primm is gonna be great again and the ranch is well it just is...............

[Strega]

Wouldn't miss it, not sure how many times I've been to Bar 10, maybe 7 or 8 now, but it really does get better each time.

Two please. Entire long version.
Should we call them directly?

Wonderwoman
Beezzz

[Crawdaddy]

Two please. Entire long version.
Should we call them directly?

Wonderwoman
Beezzz

Sweet - glad to have you BOTH along this time......my daughter Caitlynn is "in" again too.

Hey Chris, I'm in. When I 1st saw this I thought it was March 1 & 2d. and that was a no go, but 5/1 I'm ready to roll.

Covered in Bar 10

Chris: I am in if I can get Duane & maybe John to go so we can cut transporation costs. Looks like a blast, I have always wanted to do this ride after seeing your & Rogers Pics.

I won't be able to make it this year. Baby boy due early April.

Glad to hear it will be an annual event. The Bar 10 has been on my list for a while.

[blind]

*hand raise* for a mesquite to mesquite. is that possible too? the "short version", option B etc
i might be in a heated little league division race( ), so would go up sat afternoon to mesquite...and round trip that part...that option available too?
short story, long...IN

Had April dates saved out.. ...now scrambling if I can make a portion work, because I SOOOO want to go!.. BUT have tickets to 2nd annual Mother Daughter trip to Stagecoach Festival in Indio that whole weekend til late sunday....Would cancel most everything for Bar 10, but CAN'T cancel that one!....google says 6 hour drive from indio to mesquite....hmmmm...could leave EARLY on monday drive to mesquite then ride to bar10 on Monday?....maybe stay monday/tuesday nights?....tough one though.....have to look it over...Am I crazy that it's MAYBE possible?