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[QUOTE="CPT Jack, post: 420454, member: 19007"] I will survive, I will survive … For the record: Talk about a killer loop! You guys at Miller Canyon weren’t the only ones getting dehydrated this last weekend. Our Snowy ride was BRUTAL! The heat wasn’t that bad but tough trail and dehydration led to some severe exhaustion for the contingent from Team Knucklehead. From the top… Yep, had to use the Force (again) like a true dirt-Jedi (“These are not the droids you’re looking for.”) since I still haven’t put that green-stickie to metal yet. Another 1st – no riding pants. Hey good thing I wore jeans instead of shorts! They didn’t work out too bad – only got a little hole where Snowy took a bite out of my backside. For those who haven’t done Snowy, it’s only around 11 miles total. The 1st two miles & last 2-3 are easy riding – fast & fun. It’s the middle 7 that make it worthy of the double black diamond that appears at the trailhead. It’s immediately noticeable when this trail turns serious & it just seems to get worse. We made it through the first rock section without incident & made our way to the downhill singletrack switchback. It was pretty slow going from there - that is one narrow trail! Funny how tired you can get going downhill. Most of these switchbacks were far too tight to ride through & I made the mistake of going to wide on one of them & having my front end go a couple feet over the edge. Yeah Greg the right-handers are a b****! Well that was the first wrestling match of the day – whew! Already getting tired, we finished the downhill & crossed the creek. The GasGas was running rich on the bottom going from burble w/ the intermittent surge to hard pulling & by the end of the day wore me out. It was a bit difficult to control at low speed but only a bit, nothing major. Next time I’ll try putting in a leaner needle or pilot. Just when you think (hoped) you’d seen the worst, here comes that long (like never-ending long) gnarly rocky uphill. It starts with a full 90 degree pivot into severe rocks. I put my foot down & leaned it over & gave it some throttle to swing the back end around. Something fluid shot out from next to my throttle hand & hit my handguard. Huh? I was thinking this could be a bad omen. Oh well, keep charging. The back end became difficult to control in the loose rocky stuff, which in turn made the front end difficult to control, at one point sending the front off the trail. Front end over the edge again (wrestling match #2) & radiator now boiling over as well. I decided to just sit & let it cool. I kept yelling up for the Eel so he wouldn’t think I went over & eventually he wandered down. Normally, he’d probably ride back but I want to point out that it’s too tight to turn around on this trail. During a nice smoke break he tells me the trail gets worse around the corner – no way! Time to go. He heads off around the corner for the moment you’ve all been waiting for. And so do I. The mountain is to the left side of the trail & when I went over one of the big rocks, my front end went left into the hill pushing me over right. I figured I end up on my right butt-cheek, pinned under the bike. All I really recall is a backward somersault & then I’m sliding - on my back, feet first. All I can do is try to slow/control the slide. But everything is dry and loose & every rock I grab just comes out & takes off over the edge. I saw an embedded rock straight ahead. It was about football sized (sticking out) and I thought “If I don’t get this one, there’s another big one after the drop - I’ll get that one.” So I guess I was too busy planning ahead (and below - literally) to get freaked out. If I had been in any other body position it would have been a very different story. Guess I was lucky - it enabled me to control & stop. The 1st drop off wasn’t that big, 6-8 ft., but after that - forget it. Once I stopped, Eric yells down “Are you O.K.?” & I yell back “Yeah, shut off my gas!” Yep, good thing that bike stayed up there. It was a tough little climb back up too, with little to hold onto & a whole lot more that would come right out with any weight on it. Once I got back up to the bike I was thoroughly beat. We were about 7 miles into the Snowy Trail. That’s the first half of the Snowy report. BTW, The Eel had a close call too on Piru Creek trail where he stalled on a tough rock obstacle rounding the rock cliff & jumped off the bike. He was less than a foot from going straight down. Nice save. :D [/QUOTE]
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