Captain_Slash
Community Manager
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2011
- Bikes
- BMW 310GS Honda Wave 125 Honda MSX 125
Total distance 123 km
Photos and text last to first
Half a chicken with fries from Intira 140 Baht
Back on the 105 and the Nam Mae Lit
In Kong Um
Back on the main track and there are four water crossings in quick succession
I explore a side single track but it turns to nothing
Nearing Kong Um
A shady secluded lunch stop
For a while the track doesn't look much used but it is double track all the way through and after a while tyre tracks from 4WD vehicles are showing
He tells me this village is Mae Kha as well
In Mae Kha
Now on a track which should take me to the Nam Ngao NP
Back out on the main track and the track in the photo is the one I have just rode to Huai La-U, annoyingly I saw this yesterday and thought it was a track I had already explored, not to worry at least I found it
Time to head back
One of the guys beckons me to follow him, here at the school he motions the track goes on but its not something I wish to try alone as it doesn't look much like a track to me
Finally I reach it
Through the trees I can see Mae Pa Noi from where I could see todays destination so I know I am on the right track
In about three places the bike got bogged down in the loose stuff and the only way to get up those bits was by running alongside the bike in first gear.
Standard gearing was 15/44 I think, I am now running 15/52 but its still not low enough on some of these steep bits
A log crossing at the bottom, now for some very steep hills
This single track carries on through and goes downhill for a way
I studied GE last night for clues on how to find Huai La-U and decided it must be through Mae Pa Khi which was the first village I visited yesterday
A chillier start today and once up at this altitude it was noticeably colder
Photos and text last to first
Half a chicken with fries from Intira 140 Baht
Back on the 105 and the Nam Mae Lit
In Kong Um
Back on the main track and there are four water crossings in quick succession
I explore a side single track but it turns to nothing
Nearing Kong Um
A shady secluded lunch stop
For a while the track doesn't look much used but it is double track all the way through and after a while tyre tracks from 4WD vehicles are showing
He tells me this village is Mae Kha as well
In Mae Kha
Now on a track which should take me to the Nam Ngao NP
Back out on the main track and the track in the photo is the one I have just rode to Huai La-U, annoyingly I saw this yesterday and thought it was a track I had already explored, not to worry at least I found it
Time to head back
One of the guys beckons me to follow him, here at the school he motions the track goes on but its not something I wish to try alone as it doesn't look much like a track to me
Finally I reach it
Through the trees I can see Mae Pa Noi from where I could see todays destination so I know I am on the right track
In about three places the bike got bogged down in the loose stuff and the only way to get up those bits was by running alongside the bike in first gear.
Standard gearing was 15/44 I think, I am now running 15/52 but its still not low enough on some of these steep bits
A log crossing at the bottom, now for some very steep hills
This single track carries on through and goes downhill for a way
I studied GE last night for clues on how to find Huai La-U and decided it must be through Mae Pa Khi which was the first village I visited yesterday
A chillier start today and once up at this altitude it was noticeably colder
