{"id":21802,"date":"2020-08-16T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=21802"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:53:14","slug":"montana-dirt-biking-blue-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2020\/08\/montana-dirt-biking-blue-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana dirt biking &#8211; Blue Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin showed us some dual sport trails that branch off of Blue Mountain, which is just south of Missoula. About 4 hours of dual\/single track up and over a mountain which popped us out at The Jack Saloon, just south of Lolo MT.<\/p>\n<p>Ton of fun. Loose rocks are difficult on the XR650l. Especially steep downhill loose rocks. Plenty of spots where I had to just lock up the rear wheel and let the XR&#8217;s weight slide me down the rocky decline.<\/p>\n<p>Pics and vid don&#8217;t do it justice. Trails were steep as shit, with insane views. Honestly, it was some of the more challenging riding i&#8217;ve done. The XR was a champ, but heavy big bike made it pretty tough.<\/p>\n<div data-img-scroller=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2158-1400x1867.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2159-1400x1867.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2160-1400x1050.jpg\" alt=\"Colin and his buddies on their KTMs\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2161-1400x1400.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2162-1400x1867.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2163-1400x1867.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2164-1400x1867.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2165-1400x1867.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2166-1400x1050.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><video width=\"400\" controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mt-blue-mtn-IMG_2167-720.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin showed us some dual sport trails that branch off of Blue Mountain, which is just south of Missoula. About 4 hours of dual\/single track up and over a mountain which popped us out at The Jack Saloon, just south of Lolo MT. Ton of fun. Loose rocks are difficult on the XR650l. Especially steep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156,294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21802"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21985,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21802\/revisions\/21985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}