2022 TOUR OF IDAHO - DAY 4,5 & 6 - SOLO 

Good soundtrack all over. The Dead South too. 👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you. Appreciate the comment. Glad you enjoyed the videos.

Thank you.. it is an incredible adventure/experience that sticks with you, and i am sure i will never forget.. I am glad i could relay some level of this over to you..

I don’t blame you for turning around. You shouldn’t push yourself too hard. Hitting the trail at 4:40 a.m. when you could be sleeping doesn’t make sense.

You get it.. it wears you down. its a fine line between fast enough to balance correct, but slow enough to not launch if something goes wrong. huge respect to the guys that ride this stuff all the time.

I agree. I’m 70 with bad arthritis all over now. I do good to put in 100 miles / day. Get it while you can!

Glad you enjoyed it!

thanks! Glad you enjoyed them.

it was a mess.. Someone did some trail work after, and in August 2023 it was a breeze. I didn't realize i was there until i was half way through, didnt even get it on camera... Thank you trail crew !!!

Thank you.. Its a tremendous adventure. Did you run a T1 or T2 ? Congrats to you and your guys on your achievement. Paradise creek was actually easier, this year (2023) than it was in the video (2022). it looked like they had done some trail work and filled in the crevice. still pretty knarly. I hope to have the 2023 run up this winter which includes a lot of unseen mayhem i wasn't able to share in 2022

We ran T1. The hurricane(Hilary) that hit southern California that also brought torrential rain as far north as Idaho caught us on Day 3 leaving Arco and stayed with us the next several days. That steep section was totally washed out and I had first tracks on the hill above it at the first canyon(Skillern Peak) which had a huge mud slide down it all the way into Paradise Creek. We picked our way thru that slide with its downed trees, boulders, heavy mud, etc.. Damn fine memories............

Awesome.. :-) yes, there is a list of things i will do, or attempt to do differently. The tour website has a section for this, i may just write a "lessons learned" report and post it there. The event I am running is called the T1 version. This will cease to exist after the 2023 season. There is also a version called the T2, which is just as you described.. The T1 but at your on pace and leisure. many teams, after not completing day 1, continue on and run a T2. Idaho is an amazing place, and if you have the time and equipment, it is highly recommended.

I agree but dont like music like to hear bike makes it seem your there

Xcw 530 i ment

Thank you.. So you're saying that needs to be next on my list..?? :-) The trip is absolutely worth doing as a scenic ride.. that's the downside of the TOI (as it use to be), you don't have that time to look around. I am sure it is a different experience when you are not under the challenge rules.

Hey Chris, thank you.. I did use melatonin and Advil PM. it wasn't powerful enough. Ill have something more potent this summer. thankfully I did not use the recovery kit. though i did go off the trail getting the bike out on day 6, when it flamed out at the wrong moment, confirming my fears. took 20 min or so for a minor off on a steep gully. There are a lot of small changes ill make to my kit. mostly concerning weight. All little things you dont know if you need or not until you are out there doing it.

Correct, with the long miles, days.. you get fried, and your response time and cognitive ability really fades. I did get luck, and good safety gear played its part.

it is one big long loop winding through the ranges east of Mackay/Arco. These will be covered in detail on the 2023 videos. I did explain to the young girl checking me into the lodge, Explained that i just rode a dirtbike 500 miles and had not eaten a good meal in 2 days, and she knew i was staying at the inn that is part of the business. i said i would eat it in my room. even though the dining room still was full of people, she did not care and told me to go elsewhere. I had no energy to argue or ask for the manager at that point. worst service I found the whole trip. (owner of the business is wonderful, this was just a horrible employee)

Garmin Montana 700. The base model. I'm very happy with them. Huge upgrade from th 6xx series. Only complaint is, if you try and use the feature to synchronize the GPS tracks and waypoints with earthmate on your cell phone. And you have a large set of waypoints, such as TOI, it will crash the GPS. The constant sync overloads the system.

I started on August 16.. coldest it got was in the 40's and high 90's on a couple days.

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it, i was hoping to capture the solo aspect of the challenge, the event is a lot different solo vs with others, and that's hard to capture. i have a lot of ideas for then next go around.. :-) I never touched the saw.. but that was by design. I started later in the schedule, for one, most of the saw work would be done, and two i could learn more about the route ahead by watching the teams in front of me. most of the sawing i believe takes place on the 2nd half of the tour anyhow, so i didn't really get into the areas where there are a lot of downed trees. the route has changed a lot since 2013, I want to say it was something like 7 days and 1400 miles max back then ?? the two new days 3 & 4 are a beat down, we will see how changes for 23 year play out.

Ha! Stupid saw. Lol Great plan letting the other dudes cut it up. You are correct, I think I had 1465 miles in 2013. I ran in in 97 hours officially. In 2014 I started in North Carolina and rode the TAT across to the Conti Divide then up and over to the T1. Did the 7 days then continued to WABDAR, OBDAR, Conti to Mexico, and back to California on Camino De Diablo. 10, 860 miles in 46 days. Those trails with camping crap bolted everywhere was a gem!! Thanks for responding man, I love this stuff!!!

Crap in the fuel injector. While at the shop in Ketchum, we pulled the injector and the shop tech cleaned it using a Motion Pro cleaning tool. I can only assume gunk somehow got introduced into the system at that point. I thought of it that morning, but said to my self " we just cleaned it". once back home I used a trailside cleaning method and it was fixed. It was frustrating, that I purposely setup the fuel system so I could do that clean on the trail. Yet, in the state I was in, at that moment, I wasn't able to think that through clearly.

@@briangoss glad it was a simple fix even it if stopped you. looks like you learned a great deal from your first time out. i really enjoyed your videos thanks for making them.