Nan To Ban Santiphap And Around

[Captain_Slash]

The route 1080, Unknown

Total distance 110 km

I headed north on the 1080 for about 20 km then took a left onto an unnumbered road to Ban Santiphap to try to link up some roads across the mountains

A twisty number is this road

This bridge to the side of the main road has collapsed into the water and been made up with hard packed stones and I guess it will be okay until the next wet season

Quite a few landslips along here

Theres about four in this short section and I guess the road was closed for a bit

I reach Ban Santiphap

Lunch time

I head south out of the village on this dirt track which starts at N18.59.461 E100.39.343 hoping to link up with one due south of here

Not a good omen, these were all along the road I turned back on a couple of days ago

Its a good pleasant start

Not far and it turns to this single track

I ride for 1.6 km from the village then turn around at N18.58.729 E100.39.232

The views on the way back

Back in the village and some washing being done in the stream

At the north end of the village this dirt track starts at N18.59.694 E100.39.267

Just out of the village and these couple of shacks

Another nice pleasant start

I cross a few water crossing but here it appears I have to ride along the stream

I decide to walk through and check it out first

Its an easy shallow crossing

I am enjoying this and at a fork I take the left heading west and on due course for the waypoint I left two days ago out in the corn field

Typical its now single track and more water crossings, 4.4km from the start and I turn around at N19.00.614 E100.37.906

Now to enjoy the water crossings on the way back

Now why cant all single track be like this, plenty of room to manoeuvre in

I reach the fork taking the left to see where this goes

About 700 metres at N19.00.824 E100.38.346 then it turns to single track and goes up through those corn fields

Its narrower than it looks in the photo and I still have memories of riding uphill through this from two days ago

Here they come down again laden with the sacks of corn

That guy was carrying three sacks and making it look easy. I looked on google earth last night and it looked like none of todays tracks were going to work out how I hoped so no real big disappointment

Time to ride back to Ban Santiphap

I stop in the village for a snack and refreshments

This youngster was a right little entrepreneur, as soon as I took the rubber bands off the small packets of peanuts she quickly took them from me, either for games or possibly they have a monetary value

Back on this lovely twisty road

I take a dirt track to my left to see where it goes

I ride through the woods for 5.4 km then this fallen tree is in the way but not really a problem

This landslip is more of a problem and I dont fancy riding over it

Plus this fallen tree with stones to go over it is a bit too close to a drop for my liking so as its a bit hazardous plus theres no help out here if things go wrong I turn back at N19.01.070 E100.41.431

Nearly back to the asphalt and great scenery again

The twisty asphalt that awaits me, and now back to Nan after a fun days exploring

Half a roast chicken with a double portion of saute potatoes and onions at Tonys Place for 190 Baht










You can get the gdb file from my website here … http://www.captainslash.com

 

[Ally]

Very nice ride there Colin.

You must be feeling like a pig in the preverbial with that bike, a gps & all those new routes.

:RO

Ally

 

[Captain_Slash]

Yes thoroughly enjoying it Ally

 

[Lone Rider]

Great stuff Colin and you are keeping me busy - beautiful ride and pictures and at the same time you are providing a lot of new tracks to be added to the map.

 

[KTMphil]

It's quite exciting how much unmapped data this is out in the Nan region. With the surrounding beauty, it makes it a pleasure doing the mapping work there for sure.


Map of your tracks, nice work Colin.

 

[Captain_Slash]

Thanks for the compliments.

While I admit going south from Ban Santiphap and joining the 3030 was not going to happen looking at the live track on my website makes me think I can link from the 1082 near to Sop Khun back to where I turned back at tha fallen tree/landslide roadblock