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The Snowy Ride is an annual event staged in the Snowy Mountains area in the south east of New South Wales. The prime purpose is to raise money for children's cancer research.

The general plan is to ride down on Friday, "ride event" on Saturday and return home Sunday. The ride event is to ride to a number of check points and have the entry form stamped. The ride ends at Thredbo, when the entry forms are placed into a barrel for prizes, including motorcycles!

As eventually happens, this year had some rain associated with the ride day. But so what!

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Chase the Snake is a lightly organised motorcycle ride around SE Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Riders from the area congregate in Pullman, WA on Friday night, spend Saturday enjoying the great motorcycle roads in the area before dinner at a farm. Sunday is for riding back home.

The snake in this case is the Snake River. The event started when one of the locals decided to try riding every crossing of the Snake River. Others thought it a grand idea, and the tradition has continued.

After 9/11, many of the crossings have been closed, as they are over dams. Nonetheless, the roads are great, the scenery excellent and the company sublime.

The first video covers the ride from Seattle, the second the the ride day itself, and the third is the ride home taking a liesurely 2 days on a longer route.