John Brunsgaard, jeb on this and other sites, had an accident while clearing trails. Here's the story pulled from a fellow over at rec.motorcycles.dirt.
"Hi folks,
Last Friday, while cutting some trail, in preparation for the Theilman Trail Ride, our friend, John Brunsgaard (some of you know him as JEB) had an accident on an ATV.
Right now he's at Mayo Hospital in Rochester, MN with seven (yes, seven) fractures in his hip. Right now, it appears that there will be no surgery. He was on morphine over the weekend while they evaluated and decided a course of action.
I got to talk to him yesterday and here's a brief summary of what happened: John was way up on a narrow ridge when the thing started tipping over (Honda Foreman). John has an eye for "challenging goat paths" and I expect this was no different. He stayed with it for a bit, hoping to ride it out, but wound up bailing off the low side into a ravine. The ATV hit him as it rolled down into the ravine and caused the injury.
Basically what happens at Theilman is that the Golden Eagles groom the trails both before and after the event -- making the trails pristine before and leaving them pristine for the horsey-people after. Of course this means picking up horse peoples garbage and stuff to make it pristine for the ride then checking every inch after. It takes weeks of preparation both before
and after.
The DNR around these parts appreciates the level of maintenence that the Golden Eagles provide in exchange for two weekend events... To achieve this level it's necessary to get back there with ATVs, with tools, to do the hand work on the miles and miles of horse trails - from which everyone benefits.
Once John was stabilized, sort of - at least carried out of the narrow ravine on a back-board, they moved John out to an open area and life-flighted him to the hospital. Laura, his wife, took on not only this emergency Friday night, but amazingly, was still helping at the event when I saw her Saturday evening. Tired, for sure. What a trooper she is!
On Saturday, Jon Kemnitz, Jim Olsen and I rode together, and had a great time on the trails. It would have been wasteful to miss. But it really was not the same without JEB, whom I always look forward to riding with. I know he would have enjoyed pushing us through some of the tighter new sections (that marred both sides of my bark-busters at the same time, tut-tut) as well as the1/2 mile baby-head rock hills (Up and down - no one
is neglected). Not to mention the sandy sections...(Texas Trail). And yeah, John, we found the really new stuff and crawled over the logs while wrenching the bars through the trees...)
It was hard not to notice the "encouraging" signage put up by, I assume, John and Jim E. Things like "this way for the real men" to go right, and left was "this way for lesser men and children or feeble." You could reasonably translate these pie-plate messages to "quagmire sand to the left" and "vertical rocks with roots to the right." Basically, either way promised some great riding.
If you want to get in touch with John, you can send me an email for a phone number. If you want to email him a note, here's an address with secret spam-proof code. The prognosis, as of now, is no riding for the rest of the year, no weight (at all) on his left leg for three months and certainly, no movement now.
Knowing what an active person John is, I expect he'll be going totally crazy with boredom be glad to hear from you guys and gals.
Get well, soon John. We've got riding to do.
jejbdontspam@att.net
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Kurt"
John has e-mail enabled for this site so you can send your regards directly from here if you wish.
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