TACODOC
10-20-2008, 02:18 AM
I wanted to do some exploring on my KLR today so I headed out from Murrieta along Grand Ave toward Lake Elsinore and the Ortega Highway/74. Ortega Highway is very popular with motorcyclists, but I was looking for dirt :D
On top of the 74 I hit the South Main Divide road and started following the roads using GPS, heading back toward Murrieta through the back country. The road changed names a few times (S. Main Divide, Killen Rd, Tenaja, Via Volcano to Clinton Keith) and the views were spectacular. No one else back there but me :)
You can do this route in an afternoon, about 50 miles round this loop and all hardball with LOTS of options to explore dirt along the way - which I did, of course. Nothing like the back country on a dual sport!
San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3767.jpg
Above Lake Elsinore
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3769.jpg
On a road less travelled!
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3782.jpg
GPS makes things easy, always nice to know which road you're on!
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3787.jpg
Tenaja Road
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3792.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3793.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3794.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3801.jpg
On top of the 74 I hit the South Main Divide road and started following the roads using GPS, heading back toward Murrieta through the back country. The road changed names a few times (S. Main Divide, Killen Rd, Tenaja, Via Volcano to Clinton Keith) and the views were spectacular. No one else back there but me :)
You can do this route in an afternoon, about 50 miles round this loop and all hardball with LOTS of options to explore dirt along the way - which I did, of course. Nothing like the back country on a dual sport!
San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3767.jpg
Above Lake Elsinore
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3769.jpg
On a road less travelled!
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3782.jpg
GPS makes things easy, always nice to know which road you're on!
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3787.jpg
Tenaja Road
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3792.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3793.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3794.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/devildoc25/102_3801.jpg