CRF250L and WR250R Off Road: Actual Dual Sport Adventure in the Woods!

My pockets are zipped up. I'm wearing all my gear. I know where I'm going, sort of. I'm getting in the other lane. Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the dork side. It is I, your friendly neighborhood dork in the road, and behind me on his brand shiny new fantabulous contraption, the WR250R, is the one and only Duck Fan, and today we are headed out to the hills above my hometown to do a little woods exploring on our fabulous dual sport motorcycles. Are you ready, Duck Fan? I'm ready. He's ready. He's ready. I'm underdressed, but I'm ready. Underdressed, yeah. It was supposed to be, it was like 90 degrees yesterday, and here we are riding out. As you can see, it's somewhat gloomy. It's about 60 degrees, and we're wearing all of our mesh gear because we thought it would be hot, but we suffer these things to bring quality motovlogging content to you, the people. Typical Oregon. Look at this. What's up, buddy? Adventure Bros. Wow, dude, there was a street, so there was like an R1, a cruiser, a GS800, and I wanted to see what the other bike was. That's quite the eclectic mix. Yeah, all expensive too. Yeah, yeah. This right here, the beginning of the gravel, was one of my favorite spots to park with young ladies as a young man. Oh, really? Spent a lot of time here making friends, if you know what I'm saying. Well, it's not gated, so that's good. The main road should be clear anyway. We just got to watch out for other assholes recreating up here. Like, here's some dudes. See, there's a closed road. They're hiking. Oh, yep, hikers. You all right back there? You eating some duck? Definitely some duck back here. Yeah, sorry. No camping. Tell me if there's any cars coming. Okay, well, you'll hear me hit them. Oh, cows. A fuckload of cows. Move. What? There's cows right here. Three calves. I scared the ---- out of one of them. Oh, there's more up here. Be careful. Where the **** are you? I must be way back, but I can hear you fine. Yeah, they're scared as ****. They're running. I don't want them to run into you. Why, ----, I thought we'd see deer. I didn't know there was open range up here. No, it says open range on this sign, so I'm going to go with apparently it's open range. I am so not used to the feeling of riding on gravel. It's a little bit wobbly. It's a little unnerving almost. Just got to let the bars do their thing. I'm getting a little missed. I'm getting pathetic. Yeah, you're getting... Are you way the hell behind me? Probably. I want to get a shot of the dam in the background. That's a ******* gorgeous shot. Well, just stay on the road because it's a little precarious off to the side, I feel like. Just a turn around. Too bad. It looked like it would go into the woods there. Is that Foster Dam? It's Green Peter. Oh, Foster's the other way. There we go. This is the ---- right here, man. I got to assume with these tires I can go at least as fast as you. Yeah, I would hope so. Ah, it's so wet. I'm so wet. I just missed us some bullshit. Yeah, my helmet and visor choice was ill-advised. All kinds of cool ---- out here. Let's go this way. Wow, look at that sign. It's like molten metal. We got a fire right there. Big-ass party. I'm right up that. Oops. Oh, there's some people shooting. Let's not go this way. Let's turn around. It's not much of a backstop if you're shooting out over a cliff, but whatever. Don't get shot back there. It wouldn't be an adventure out here without some dudes with guns shooting at ----. Yeah, it just occurred to me that we are woefully unarmed. At least I am. Well, hopefully we're back. Looking for these sweeping vistas, courtesy of Clearcut. There's another one. **** yeah. Look at this ----. I see what looks like a dirt trail down there on the far right of the Clearcut. Yeah. Well, this loops us back down around down there. That ******* side road over there is probably a shortcut. You know what I think is happening here? I think that the mist is sticking to my visor and then the dust is sticking to that because this is not fog. I just can't see. Yeah, I should have grabbed my goggles to be this far into the rock. So is my visor just dusty? Uh, it looks like mud. Like you're like you're saying water. You got your squeegees on your gloves? Nope. That helped a bit. Now I just made it all the big drops. Yeah. I don't know what the hell. Let's check it out. There we go. This is what I've been looking for. Whoa. See how the second gear bike works. Yeah, this is definitely a stream pad pretty much all the time. Very rusty. Rusty. Yeah, now we're riding in the woods. Yeah, it's so funny. I, uh, as a mountain biker for years, I hated dirt bikes and it was because they beat up trails pretty easily. But, uh, I was talking to a, oh man, I was talking to a buddy of mine who was a convert the other way from, from dirt bikes back to mountain bikes. And he was saying, you know how fun it is going downhill on a mountain bike? It's like that, but always. Always. So, I mean, this would be a pretty, this isn't too steep, but it'd be a grind. I don't think it would be that fun. Nope. There's a log. Oh, ****. Shit ton of mud. Let's go slow. Oh, it's not bad. Whoa. Don't put your foot down. That's dumb. You good? Find out. All right. Well, I haven't found a good place to stop and wait for you. There's a bunch of targets up here. That's concerning. We're probably going to have to turn around. Oh yeah. Where were those assholes shooting? Oh no. We're nowhere near that. Okay. Something else. Yeah. That's the end of this particular road. Interesting. Oh yeah. This is a big ass trench. Excellent.