Re: Lousy weather - #315 + Lightning Strike - and after . . .

That's a super shot, Olaf -

When did you take it?   I remember a hellascious thunderstorm the night before the two-day #315 excursion in mid-September, 2009, when it was raining so hard I pulled off the road south of La Jara and waited half an hour for it to ease off before continuing on to Antonito.  When I got there Dennis D'Alessandro was getting thoroughly soaked while he was servicing the engine well after dark.  Fortunately the weather had eased off by sunrise, although there were still some heavy clouds hanging around, and we got some fabulous run-bys that morning.  Here's a b&w conversion using Photoshop's "infra-red" interpretation of a color still that I got at the first run-by while you were taking video:


IIRC we unloaded near the top of 'Gravity Hill' for the second run-by, so this next one – also a fake "I-R" interpretation – must have been taken looking back toward m.p. 287 from the rider gon of the "chase" train a mile or two before we stopped:


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