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This might be a suitable topic for the winter layover.
Coming home from a Guzzi rally near Lincoln city Oregon in about 07 or 08 or so, It rained all the way to Port Townsend. After crossing the Colombia River it turned cold, very cold and the wind was strong. I was hoping to reach the bottom of Hood Canal where I would have the mountains as a buffer between myself and the wind. The rain had been occasionally been coming down as small hail but driven hard. Just before I reached the shelter of the Olympics it began to drive down viciously with most of it about half inch and some about 3/4 inch. Unable to make progress, I just pulled off the road and hunched over the tank and instruments and was hammered mercylessly with a machine-gun sound from the hail hammering my helmet. I hoped other traffic had stopped since it would be easy for a blinded driver to leave the road and clobber me. As the hail let up and turned back into cccold rain I continued on, now soaked completely through my rain gear. Two hours later I rolled into my drive and dismounted in a state of complete hypothermia. I didn't even take off my gear or boots but went straight to the shower and turned on the hot water. I couldn't have gotten any wetter anyway and needed the heat desperately As I warmed up still under the hot water, I began to disrobe and take off my boots under the hot shower. By the time I began to run out of hot water I was no longer hypothermic. I undressed and dried off, then went to bed in a dry sleeping bag with the thermostat turned up to about 80 degrees. I spent the rest of the day recovering. Next day with no rain I began to spread out my clothing and camping gear. It took three days to dry everything.
Someone needs to produce a movie THe TRUE ADVENTURES of Sasquatch Jim. A hack zooming by during the opening credits...
That beats me, but I have had to strip down and jump in the shower a few times after a long ride in the rain. One time in the winter in Cali was with a simple down jacket and pants, no rain gear. Froze my nether parts off.Tom
And the credits will include Maki Horikita as "The Girl in the Sidecar".Lannis
What I was hoping for were reports of really large hailstones -- say 3/4 inch or bigger. We had one such report, but I think they must be really rare if our, er, experienced group hasn't seen more of them. That's good news!
Moto , I've seen hail approaching softball size , but wasn't riding , so didn't want to say anything . Dusty