muleskinner
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- Location
- Enoch, UT
Did anyone else go? I went Friday after my last appointment, and all day Saturday. I'll post a few pics later.
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- Thread starter muleskinner
- Start date
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
Didn't even know it was happening. Wish I had though... Would have made an effort to attend had I known.
My sister has a house on the "old" Widowmaker hill. Darn shame that the old hill is all covered up in houses now. From my sisters front porch, you can still just barely make out some of the old lines, especially from the Expert run, if you know just where to look. Lots of good memories from the Widowmaker. My Dad used to run it way back, before I was even born. I think it was at the "old" Holiday gun club back then. He started taking me to the Widowmaker there in Draper every year when I was pretty young. We'd ride out to it on one of his old Triumph's. I remember one year, we came walking back to where Dad's bike was parked and there were five or six guys from an out of state M.C. (Mongols) beating the crap out of some dude. Turns out, the guy had walked up to my Dad's bike (old, collectible and very, very cherry) and started touching it, and these guys we didn't even know took offense and beat the bejeezus out of him for it.
Also remember watching Jim True make the very first climb all the way up on that hill. As the years passed and the lines got worn in, more and more guys started making it over, to where the winner was the one who made it over the fastest. But for a long time, NOBODY made it up, winner was whoever made it the furthest. Every run ended in a wreck. Always cheered louder for the guys who crashed early, but rode down, than the guys who made it a long way up but walked it down (boo!). Spectators used to get in the way, too, sittting on the hill inside the boundaries. Used to get a kitty going in the pits, for whoever hit the first spectator. At least one year, there was more money to be made by running over a spectator inside the lines than you could make by winning!
Another year that I was there with my Dad, I witnessed a murder there - bikers were kicking the crap out of some guy, he jumped in his Cougar and tried to run them all over, got one of them... Never forget watching that guy on his hands and knees as the rear diff hit him...
When I got old enough, my friends and I started making it an annual event. Used to take a couple kegs up there and have a good old time. Somebody always got beat up, somebody always went to jail, but it was always fun. The last year it was held on that hill, a few of my buddies got a bit too tipsy and tried going up the hill in their rigs and rolled them, and all went to jail. Lots of bad press in the papers on that one, sometimes wonder if that didn't have something to do with the event never being held there again... Ah... I do miss the Widowmaker. The Good Old Days!
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My sister has a house on the "old" Widowmaker hill. Darn shame that the old hill is all covered up in houses now. From my sisters front porch, you can still just barely make out some of the old lines, especially from the Expert run, if you know just where to look. Lots of good memories from the Widowmaker. My Dad used to run it way back, before I was even born. I think it was at the "old" Holiday gun club back then. He started taking me to the Widowmaker there in Draper every year when I was pretty young. We'd ride out to it on one of his old Triumph's. I remember one year, we came walking back to where Dad's bike was parked and there were five or six guys from an out of state M.C. (Mongols) beating the crap out of some dude. Turns out, the guy had walked up to my Dad's bike (old, collectible and very, very cherry) and started touching it, and these guys we didn't even know took offense and beat the bejeezus out of him for it.
Also remember watching Jim True make the very first climb all the way up on that hill. As the years passed and the lines got worn in, more and more guys started making it over, to where the winner was the one who made it over the fastest. But for a long time, NOBODY made it up, winner was whoever made it the furthest. Every run ended in a wreck. Always cheered louder for the guys who crashed early, but rode down, than the guys who made it a long way up but walked it down (boo!). Spectators used to get in the way, too, sittting on the hill inside the boundaries. Used to get a kitty going in the pits, for whoever hit the first spectator. At least one year, there was more money to be made by running over a spectator inside the lines than you could make by winning!
Another year that I was there with my Dad, I witnessed a murder there - bikers were kicking the crap out of some guy, he jumped in his Cougar and tried to run them all over, got one of them... Never forget watching that guy on his hands and knees as the rear diff hit him...
When I got old enough, my friends and I started making it an annual event. Used to take a couple kegs up there and have a good old time. Somebody always got beat up, somebody always went to jail, but it was always fun. The last year it was held on that hill, a few of my buddies got a bit too tipsy and tried going up the hill in their rigs and rolled them, and all went to jail. Lots of bad press in the papers on that one, sometimes wonder if that didn't have something to do with the event never being held there again... Ah... I do miss the Widowmaker. The Good Old Days!
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ricsrx
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My son and I went on Saterday, I love going into the pits to check out the cool bikes, we had a good time, It started to get alittle hot, but we survived...
YES they need to advertise, I go every year but didnt hear about it untill last week...
I also used to go to the old hill in Draper, back in the 70's and early 80's.. always a good show by all the drunks, I loved the old bikes back then. I also saw a jeep CJ try the hill only to roll it down in to my brothers best friends truck, and another year we saw the cops ( on hourse back) telling some drunk his buddy got ran over by a car, the dude jumped into his VW bug to chase after the guy in the car ( probably the cougar), the problem was the car left an hour earlyer.ha ha ha ha
Rick
YES they need to advertise, I go every year but didnt hear about it untill last week...
I also used to go to the old hill in Draper, back in the 70's and early 80's.. always a good show by all the drunks, I loved the old bikes back then. I also saw a jeep CJ try the hill only to roll it down in to my brothers best friends truck, and another year we saw the cops ( on hourse back) telling some drunk his buddy got ran over by a car, the dude jumped into his VW bug to chase after the guy in the car ( probably the cougar), the problem was the car left an hour earlyer.ha ha ha ha
Rick
- Location
- Smithfield Utah
I missed it 
Definatly post pics!
Definatly post pics!
muleskinner
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- Location
- Enoch, UT
Well, here are a few pics. I haven't had time to go through them all yet, or correct any of them in Photoshop, but here ya go I'll post up more if anyone wants, I took around 3200 shots between both days
I'll post up more if anyone wants, I took around 3200 shots between both days
choptopbII
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- Location
- Clearfield, UT
haha Awesome pics! I missed it this year.... Again!
- Location
- Smithfield Utah
Awesome!
The guy on the Husaberg went for a ride!!!
The guy on the Husaberg went for a ride!!!
muleskinner
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- Location
- Enoch, UT
Thanks for the comments- this couldn't have felt very good
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
Very cool pics
Does anyone remember what year they stopped racing in at the Point of the Mountain in Draper? I barely remember if from when I was a kid. We never went to the races but I remember driving past and seeing them. Later when I was old enough to ride we rode up there occasionally and during high school we rode up there on a pretty regular basis (remember that Ramirez?). We used to do one of the shorter climbs on the west end of the Widowmaker face. It was 1/3 of the big hill and had a far better approach, even that was an amazing rush.
Does anyone remember what year they stopped racing in at the Point of the Mountain in Draper? I barely remember if from when I was a kid. We never went to the races but I remember driving past and seeing them. Later when I was old enough to ride we rode up there occasionally and during high school we rode up there on a pretty regular basis (remember that Ramirez?). We used to do one of the shorter climbs on the west end of the Widowmaker face. It was 1/3 of the big hill and had a far better approach, even that was an amazing rush.