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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

DEEP TROUBLE: Stranded and Broken - A Ride Gone Wrong on the Haywire Grade Trail

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, Doug Oosterhouse’s annual motorcycle camping trip took a brutal turn on the Haywire Grade Trail in Michigan when deep sand and a hidden hole caused his fully loaded KLR 650 to crash. With no cell service and a serious injury that left his...

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0:00.0

Today we have another of our Deep Trouble series. Deep Trouble is an exclusive series found only here on Adventure Rider Radio.

0:07.0

Deep Trouble is stories from riders that have experienced breakdowns, being lost, catastrophes, injuries, and other issues that have led them into deep trouble.

0:16.6

And of course, no one really wants to be in trouble. But if there was no threat to dodge, no line in the sand to skirt,

0:23.6

no precipitous edge to approach, there would be no adventure.

0:28.4

And because that adventure lives in the gray zone, the gray zone between safety and danger,

0:33.8

it's all about riding the gray zone, your gray zone, whatever that is. And our deep trouble

0:39.1

series is about helping you ride the gray zone without crossing into danger. We do this by hearing

0:44.8

stories of those who have fallen into trouble, struggled and returned with lessons for all of us,

0:50.2

and how to avoid deep trouble. Or if you do find yourself in a situation, tips, ideas, and

0:57.1

tricks that may help you. And on this episode of Deep Trouble, Doug Osterhouse makes really kind of

1:02.9

one small mistake in the sand and everything grinds to a halt. But surrounding that one small

1:10.5

mistake or just a whole bunch of other factors that could

1:13.1

have changed the outcome one way or another, and that's really our focus today on deep trouble.

1:17.8

I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you.

1:28.6

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1:29.4

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1:30.4

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1:31.8

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1:33.1

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1:33.8

And you're listening to Adventure Ride Adventure Ride.

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