Riding Game

[dorkburger]

I definitely remember the one of the demolition claw....

[dorkburger]

Powerplant. Not nuclear though. I didn't have time to ride to Oyster Creek station, plus it doesn't have the cooling towers anyway, instead it uses water from the Oyster Creek for cooling, a gripe with local environmentalists for years.
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[dorkburger]

Next!

Since history seemed to have struck a chord...
Historic battlefield or location. This is the site where the story of Molly Pitcher was born.

Monmouth Battlefield.
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[gsrick]

Who are you calling new blood? Maybe I'll have to make my photos more memorable.

Burque73 and rkroby, you're overseas and much appreciated addition to the game.

[Burque73]

I'll head down to Peralta later today where a battle took place towards the end of the civil war in 1865 or so. This battle stopped the Confederate forces from moving west towards the Pacific.
Even if someone else grabs it first, I'd still like to go see what's there.

[Burque73]

There wasnt much to see down there, but a sign.


Had a great ride from the Rio Grande valley, up to the top of the Sandia Mountains. Heres the tag, an elevation marker. No specific number, just a sign.

[tkent02]

Man I went by twenty of them today.

[tkent02]

OK, here's the twenty first...

[tkent02]

Next, an old wildfire, forest fire, or other big burn of some type. This is part of the Hayman Burn, the largest fire in Colorado history.



This one happened in 2001, burned an area of 138,000 acres, something like 80 miles long and about 20 or thirty miles wide, but that's just a guess based on riding around in it for a few years. We rode through it for hours today.
So yeah, any big old fire is fine.
An active fire will work for this tag too if you can find one!

Edit, Arson for the purpose of taking a great photo will NOT be tolerated!

[Burque73]

With the quickness! That has to be a record.

[tkent02]

Making up for previous record slowness.

[Burque73]

This shouldn't be too hard to find. (UN)Fortunately it seems a third of our state goes up in flames every year. I have a place in mind and I'll try to get there later on today.

[gsrick]

With the quickness! That has to be a record.

Not even close, a few years ago we had 5 tags in one day. They were fairly easy, but it is what it is. Like the saying goes, "we were amped".

[gsrick]

Making up for previous record slowness.

[Burque73]

Visited an old burn in Albuquerque today. It scorched 250 acres in the Bosque (wooded area) area near the Rio Grande. This sculpture is cut from a burned cottonwood tree. One of the fireman that worked to extinguish the blaze carved a bunch of the burned trees into different animals etc.



Next tag, a race car. One that drives in circles looking for the finish line, or one that just goes straight to it.