August Chapter Meeting

                                                                                                                                                                          Bear Lake Ride

                                                                                                                                                                           Aug. 21 2010

    With the wonderful blue skies of August and its warm temperatures, it’s once again time for our chapter ride to Bear Lake. The group met up at our chapter sponsor Full Throttle Powersports for some much needed goodies and club info. It is good to see the Sunday rides have become so popular and also having our three chapters supporting each other’s rides. This has been a very busy summer for our chapter and with fall just around the corner, Chapter 152 still has plans for many more rides (OK guys look to the north, put your war faces on and keep old man winter at bay).

W left Full Throttle and headed north to Ogden and to the Ogden Divide. This is a small road that winds its way up through a steep sharp curved canyon and drops you right down into the small mountain town of Eden, which was our first stop. We started our ride out at 90 degrees and within 30 minutes we were at 68 degrees. Leaving Eden we rode through the town of Huntsville and up through the very picturesque canyon of Monty Crisco, to the very high mountain towns of Woodland and Randolph where we rode through the very sharp sheep grade canyon to Lake Town and Bear Lake.  Autumn alert …there are a few trees that are changing their colors!

     We stopped in Garden City for lunch, great raspberry shakes and some good places for a little shopping. It seemed you could find our chapter members everywhere in town; under a shade tree, walking Main Street, shopping or even standing in line for another shake. Garden City is a very fun place right on the shore of Bear Lake and its blue water.

     We left Garden City up over and into Logan canyon. I had forgotten how beautiful this canyon is with all the rock structures, pine trees, a river following the road, wide open meadows and trees that umbrella the road. Logan canyon is one of Gods masterpieces. We ended our ride in Brigham City.

     We would like to thank our sponsor Full Throttle for all their support and I would love to thank all the riders for a safe ride. Thanks to the other Utah STAR chapters riders that came out to ride with us. The Bear Lake ride will go down as one of the top rides in 2010.