Big Nasty Hillclimb!

We prepared ourselves for a journey out west leaving Fishtail and heading to Idaho for a motorcycle hillclimb event called the Big Nasty Hillclimb. We had left Fishtail after lunch and planned to split the drive to Boise with a stop in Pocatello, Idaho. But upon arriving to the campground late Thursday evening in Pocatello we discovered our campsite was blocked by other members of the campground. Being the true road warriors we are we decided to continue through the night/morning and drive all the way to Boise! We had makeshift campground of the Wal-Mart parking lot upon our arrival to Boise and got a few hours of sleep to ready for the crazy weekend.


I think it's best I give our audience a little background information on what the Big Nasty exactly is. The Big Nasty Hillclimb is a weekend long "motorcycle fest" with the main attraction of climbing dirt hills with a variety of dirtbikes/motorcycles! There was also concerts, freestyle motorcross with riders doing all kinds of crazy stunts, and of course what redneck event would be complete without pumpkin shooting, where pumpkins are blasted from a compressed air cannon at 800 mph!!!


Hillclimbing is performed on a course marked with markers up the side of the mountain and the objective is to make it up the hill and unto flat land in as fast a time as possible. There were several classes ranging from completely stock dirtbikes to alcohol-powered "superdirtbikes" climbing three hills, the 250 foot qualifiying hill, "Little Nasty" the 280-foot hill, and the 600-foot BIG NASTY! The weekend consisted of hours of hillclimbing during the day and night, which was a really cool site! No doubt the riders of this event were crazy but not near as crazy as the guys who did the freestyle motorcross! Mike "The Godfather of Freestyle" Metzger, Keith Sayers and Justin Homan were the riders who performed throughout the weekend. They did several shows each day pulling off crazy tricks that included backflips!

The crowd at this event was also a sight to see! I could definitely compare to a NASCAR race with us camping out all weekend in someone's cow pasture! We meet some great people including our next door neighbors Pam and Bonnie who were sisters that were from a nearby town and put up with us for the weekend! It was a great new redneck experience that was a ton of fun!

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