When there is beer involved......
Actually there was no beer, just a desire for adventure. Last fall found this neat old mining area above Silver City, Idaho, high in the Owyhee mountains. We were on our dual sport motorcycles, but I thought I might be able to get the ML in there so I could take my wife.
Today was the day. Loaded up the ML with enough firepower to overthrow a small government and headed for Silver City.
I have no idea how to make the photos look as rough as the terrain actually is. If someone can give me some pointers, please do. In the photos the trail looks tame, but in reality, it was quite steep, loose, and rough. Not to mention narrow. Spent an hour with my rotary buffer polishing all the "racing stripes" out of the paint from all the brush and tree limbs.
Lost each of the rear bumper access panels once each. One was left on a pile of rocks and easy to retrieve, the other got ripped off as I was climbing up out of a creek and I had to chase it down the creek. Good thing it was warm because that water was ICE!
So, without further adeu, here are the photos:
This was steep enough it was hard to walk up, yet it looks flat in the photos. ANy help with techniques?
