Up at 9 hour to get ready and then I'm off but something is different this time...... it's 20 degrees outside and there are a couple of inchs of snow on the ground....... oh well, lets go anyway I told myself, and off I went. The first uphill was bad but running it was bad too. Then onto the true trail slipping over logs inches high was odd at first but then I figured it out - you don't go fast!. Then I found myself going up easy hills at 90 degree hills that were easy but now had to be walked. Then up the switchbacks lots of fun to carve them while going up them. Almost hit a few trees and tried to go "golfing" more than once...... you all know the joke "I went golfing today and only hit 2 good balls, I stepped on a rake" well, I hit a log and almost did. Then to the speed area and it was a speed area at 25 mph. Over hardpacked snow thanks to snow-mobiles was fun until I started to the technical part and then I died.... in short, happy bliss. Then I got a stupid idea... hey if the deer have paths that they have made and they can go over them, why can't I? Well, I told myself why - I don't have 4 hoofs, and they can fit between the obstacles and over snow. In short, when I got back onto the road to ride home I looked like some of the deer droppings and felt like one too... |
