SideXSide Action - April 2008 - (Page 22) Time doesn’t exist at Soldier Meadows. There are no Saturdays or Sundays, no two days off. We do it because we love it. MEADOWS western Nevada, the leaves have turned yellow and orange and have begun falling, the days are crisp, and the nights are cold. The triangle bell echoes through Soldier Meadows at 8 a.m. Breakfast is served. Fruit, pancakes, bacon, sausage, toast, and coffee is put out on the broad counter ready for the guests and residents to dig in. Everyone sits around two large tables in a small area and finds their energy for the day. As the sun finally breaks over the mountain in the cloudless blue sky, the temperature starts to rise slowly. Breakfast dishes are scraped into the pig’s bucket and the cooks set out the cowboy’s and ranch hand’s lunches before starting on the grueling task of dishes. The cowboy’s spurs clang as their boots hit the hardwood floor in the dining room, and then out the door they go to saddle up. The ranch hands linger a little longer, putting the final plans on their day, making mental lists of the supplies that they need, and then out the door they go to their SOLDIER It’s mid-October in north- >>STORY & PHOTOS CHARLENE BOWER respective vehicles. The guests this weekend, a group of motorcycle riders, gear up to head out for an exceptional day of riding. And lastly, Kathy heads out with the bucket of food scraps for the pigs. The main house is empty except for the dish washer humming and the cooks who are doing the final inside chores. 22 SIDE X SIDE ACTION MAGAZINE On this particular weekend in October, a group of us old dirt bikers headed to Soldier Meadows for four days of off-road adventure riding. This was my first time out to the Soldier Meadows Ranch that I had heard so much about. After fighting the snow and the rain, we rode up to the broad arch that marked the entrance of the main ranch and slowed to enter. It was like a picture in a magazine – a dirt road winding through the desert with layers of brown mountains in the distance. As we approached the buildings, how could I not be curious? There were bunk houses, a main house, a stone house, a bunker, a couple of big barns, other out buildings, stables, and farm equipment. As
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