A few pictures and a (very) short ride report from our 3rd Annual SoCal Netscum camping trip along the South Fork of the Kern River in the Kennedy Meadows/Kernville area of Southern California...

#1 arrives on his Fat Boy (the bagger was down for repairs)	Tom	Larry
Jeff and his Road King	Campsite	#4 arrives on his new Road Glide
	Rich, Jeff, and Larry (note the flat tire on my bike)

Unfortunately this turned out to be a short trip. Everything was going well until Friday evening when we rolled out from our campsite up to the main road on our way to Grumpy Bears for dinner. Larry pulled me over to tell me it looked like my rear tire was low. I thought the bike was handling a little strange. I rode the bike back to camp and then rode with Larry on the Fat Boy up to Grumpys to call Rich (no cell phone service up here) who was coming up in the morning to ask him if he could pick up a bottle of fix-a-flat. No problem. When we got back to camp after dinner we noticed there was a big rip in the tread and the valve stem was completely sheared off! Big problem. I must have a hit rock hiding somewhere along the dirt road just right. It was too late to call Rich back so in the morning I called Marie and asked her to pick up the bike ramp from my friend's shop (turns out he had loaned it another shop) and drive up in the truck to get me. While waiting for Marie to make the 2 hour drive up Rich arrived with the fix-a-flat but of course it would be useless. Since Larry and I were sharing my tent because he didn't have enough room for one on his Fatboy my leaving early left him homeless so everybody just decided to go home a day early. Poor Rich made the trip for nothing... other than some break-in miles. Jeff took the opportunity to ride home over Sherman Pass which he had never done before. He said he enjoyed it so I guess all was not lost. Oh well... better luck next year.

Check out the SoCal Netscum 4th Annual Kennedy Meadows Run for pictures and a ride report from the next year's trip.