BMW International Rally & Rawhyde adventure Training

Kevin ( instructor) doing his laundry , the man has and will be on the road for somewhile doing other classes at other locations.

Stacie riding up the hill and passing Kevin

Stacie doing 180 turns , easy baby keep it upright !

Jim Hyde owner of Rawhyde Adventure Training. Great class, great instructors , and great food. Oh yea , they eat and serve a lot of meat . No i mean a lot of meat , I was salvating for a helping of fish but it didn't land on my plate .

Billy keeping his eyes forward , head up anticipating the big rocks and rutts.

Instructor Kevin doing his version of the 180 with his butt out and shoulders turned to the next obstacle.

Group photo on top of the hill before descending , oh yea Billy with his tongue in Stacies ear. Now it is clean . Thought a shot was needed in case some of us didn't make it down . LOL

Mark ( instructor) giving us advice on our next exercise , I say pay attention!

The view from that we saw after we climbed the hill .

Hooker Creek Building , I know but the sign is deceiving

This Electric BMW had 4 car batteries was pretty ingenious.

Billy picking up Darth , it was part of the training how to pick em up after they crash.

On our second day of training we headed out for some steep hill ascent/descent

Billy going up the hill , was a knarley hill

Billy practicing 180 degree turns, turn your butt to the outside and look over your shoulder.

We set up camp at the RawHyde training area . We signed up for a 2 day offroad introductory course. This will help us understand and be more comfortable riding our dual sport BMW.
We visited the vintage bike barn on our only day that allowed us time . It was cool to see the early models and military bikes.

Plenty of sidecars were ridden to the rally.

This bike and the seat alone caused my butt to ache but it was worth a photo. Stacie , yes Billy " please take a picture of that "

The BMW 38th rally was held in Redmond,Or. What a spectacular view of the Mountains , ( Bachelor,sisters,jefferson and many more.) Weather was hot , over 6000 people preregistered and on Thursday 07-15 Stacie and I worked the registration booth for a 4 hour tour.

Mt. Jefferson in the background.

We saw this dog and all he wanted to do was git up and go for a ride. Several times we would see him go for a running leap onto the seat waiting for his rider to take him Just hilarious.

Plenty of bikes,tents and vendors on hand for this years rally.
Stacie on a lunch break in route to Redmond, we had salmon and crackers for lunch.

Darth and Lefemme taking a break in Sisters while we ate lunch.