Back to the old stomping grounds
July 1, 2009
As this holiday weekend approaches a lot of us will be celebrating our freedom to vacation when and where we choose by traveling to that hallowed riding spot that we have some eternal connection with. For many the reason may be because it is with in a 5 minute drive from the house, a scenic place with good camping or in my case its the place where I grew up riding that WAS less than a 5 minute drive from my house, now that has stretched out to a 6 hour drive.
Back in the 80's this place held an annual harescramble
The place I am talking about is in Harlan County Nebraska at a little place developed by the US Army Corp. of Engineers in the early 80’s. My memories of this place start back when my dad raced a few hare scrambles put on by a local racer that organizes motocross races in the same area. The place had nearly perfect terrain for a hare scramble. The terrain had hills, trees, and mud. The hare scrambles were always fun to watch, and maybe that was mostly because my dad was in it. As a matter of fact my dad was always racing on the oldest bike there a 1974 Yamaha SC500. Remember this was in the 80’s! After a few years of hare scrambles the place would be nearly defunct as in it would be only ridden by locals such as us. Even big holiday weekends would turn out less than 10 or so riders for the entire weekend. The trail was never maintained at all during the entire time period that we rode it.
