Pineville is in 'Big Bear' country !!!

So grandpa wakes me up early Saturday mornin' and said; "Go look at your lawn mower in the shed . . ...

Sweet, a 4 x 4 !!!

Yamha Big Bear 400 cc 4 x 4 . . . Oh yeah . . .

Look how clean it was, only 8/10 of a mile on the odometer . . .Shweeett !!!

I have the key and a full tank of gas . . .Mountains, here I come !!!

Cadalacin' in style !!!

Alright, enough with the pictures, let's get going !!!

Dad & I took a trip to the local pawn shop and then down to Wally World for a helmet, goggles and so...

I felt like I was 10 years old, I could not get that grin off of my face . . .

This is the hair pin loop up past the end of the graveyard . . .

Check out the trail headed up there to the left . . .

Here is a better shot at that trail . . .

Many of the lower trails had some gravel mixed in for a little better traction . . .

As you get farther up into the mountains, the trails had no gravel and had standing water when I sta...

That was an awesome hill, I climbed that on a few times . . .

There was some muddy one . . .

This was just after the first ride, you should have seen me later . . .

Well, by noon I was ready for some man fuel, Big Bear still had 3/4 of a tank and was no where near ...

By the end of the second ride, it was a lot harder to read the Big Bear and my teeth were full of bu...

Natural Gas Collection

Gas pipe coming out of mountain

Walls End, Pineville & Pineville Hospital

Ready to go on an adventure !!!

Blue Goose

Blue Goose

Blue Goose, Green Monster and way in the back ground is Grandpa 4-Wheel drive truck . . . He hums a ...

4x$ Shiftless UltraStatic Transmission powered by a powerful 350 cc Engine . . .What's not to like ?...

Dad let me ride it . . . see the mud on it !?!?!?

Yeah . . . 350 cc UltraMatic tranny . . . Sweeeeet !!!!

The bones of the mountain sticking out the top !!!

Mountain bone . . .

The trail looked the same both ways leading down from the top of the mountain . . . sheeze . . .

It's not quite strainght down, but it's close . . .

Breaker 19 . . . Get out of my way; here I come !!!

I didn't think he could see it without his glasses . . . Oh well, he's having fun !!!

Are you sure a 350 can haul my phat butt up the mountain ?!?!?!?

Don't make me take my glasses off . . .

Like father, like son . . . I don't believe we missed any mud puddles going up -or- coming back . . ...

That boy was loving the outdoors . . . I do believe Grandpa & I were storing up some treasure in hea...

The apple don't fall far from the tree . . .

That was a wicked long trail . . . hard and long . . . here come Grandpa !!!!

There he is . .

Where we just came down from . . .