Winkelman pictures

The GWRRA Mesa Chapter has a photographer that went with us on the Winkleman Loop ride.. He takes pictures by holding his camera up as he rides... Its a big DSLR, and he has a two wheeled bike...



I was riding two bikes in front of the camera man... I have the yellow dayglo jacket on with the silver helmet..  The Can Am looks like the odd man in with all the goldwings... Remember I blogged that they rode right thru the shear cliff walls, but Chet did take pictures...   I'm not that good with the bike to ride and take pictures at the same time....

These hoodoos  are right after you go thru the Queen Creek tunnel..

We stopped at a kwik shop in Globe...

I had no idea he was taking this picture of me as the front and center guy.....

Wow, look at those distant mountains...   Move over blue ridge...   We are just as neat here in Arizona..

Fall Colors were abundant in the valley...

Out in front of the restaurant...  We stopped for lunch, but the Harley people were already there which is most of the bikes pictured...   You can see me way at the back with the orange shirt inside the yellow jacket...

This is the Ray mine, note the green tailings on the top of the slag pile..  The main ore is Copper, but I think they get a number of metals out of the mine, including Gold...

More mine tailings..

If you click on this picture, and look at it bigger you will find thousands of cacti in the valley floor....

All of these pictures were taken by Chet Shupe...  He is the photographer for Chapter D of GWRRA Mesa, Arizona.... Since he emailed them all over, I felt free to swipe them for your enjoyment...

He sent out over 50 photos and it was hard limiting it to just  the ones I posted...  But I think you can see why I spend Thursdays on the bike with the Arizona locals....

Retired Rod