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Postby Ken » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:39 pm

I met a Rep at Miren's Title...Fidelity. His dad....went from N. Cal to Oregon....all the way on ATV. He mapped out a route for a year...GPS'd it.

Hopefully I can get him to let us know about some of them....that's amazing. I wouldn't even think it's possible.
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Postby MrPolaris » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:43 pm

How long do you think that would take us to do. . . that would be a kick ass vacation. . . wold have to plan out the gas stops and food stops. . .
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Postby Mr. Miyagi » Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:29 am

Someone did a trip from Mexico to Canada on ATV's.
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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:18 am

Mr. Miyagi wrote:Someone did a trip from Mexico to Canada on ATV's.
No shit? It seems impossible....but I'm sure someone figured it out.
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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:19 am

Honda_Polaris_man wrote:How long do you think that would take us to do. . . that would be a kick ass vacation. . . wold have to plan out the gas stops and food stops. . .

I think they did it in 2 weeks.....1 year to plan. Not sure how many miles per day. I'm hoping to actually talk to him.
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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:23 am

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Mr. Miyagi wrote:Someone did a trip from Mexico to Canada on ATV's.
No shit? It seems impossible....but I'm sure someone figured it out.

I just thought about it more....I would guess None or very little was through California.

If you went more East...you could ride on roads in Arizona...not sure about other states...but Arizona and Nevada would eat up a lot of that distance....then slide over to Montana from Idaho...
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Postby RobG » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:30 am

The Mexico to Canada trip was done up the Rocky Mountains, approximately. None was in California... I believe they went through Arizona or New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

My understanding is that it involved travel on private land, and permission was acquired beforehand. I also know that the same group is working to make this trail legal to ride for everyone, so I suspect they're working on acquiring the land rights for it to all work.

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Postby MrPolaris » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:14 am

do you know the name of the group that is trying to get this access or permission to do the entire trip?
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Postby RobG » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:15 am

No, I wish I did...

There was a story about this on either ATV Television or ATV Magazine Television a few months back... mighta been last year. I'll do a search to see if I can come up with anything.

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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:17 pm

RobG wrote:The Mexico to Canada trip was done up the Rocky Mountains, approximately. None was in California... I believe they went through Arizona or New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

My understanding is that it involved travel on private land, and permission was acquired beforehand. I also know that the same group is working to make this trail legal to ride for everyone, so I suspect they're working on acquiring the land rights for it to all work.

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As I suspected this route looks more feasible just looking at a USA map. I suggested Nevada for obvious reasons...and Arizona because they could legally drive on the street.

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As for getting permission....that must have taken YEARS...just to research it. Then...by the time you get the last guy to accept it....the 3rd guy sells to a guy who says no way.
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Postby Mr. Miyagi » Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:36 pm

No, they did California....
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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:00 pm

So your group, is a different group than the one Rob knows??
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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:03 pm

Here's one I just found. It actually has a name...Great Western Trail.


http://www.atvutah.com/central/great.htm
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Postby MrPolaris » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:12 pm

Mr. Miyagi wrote:No, they did California....
How do you know they did California?
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Postby Ken » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:32 pm

Anyone check out the National Geographic maps??


http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/topo/


Doesn't appear to work with Magellan Sport Track Pros. I just sent them an email about that.... :) :lol:
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