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[QUOTE="LoriKTM, post: 336185, member: 18495"] Ah, where to start... I'd been checking the weather forecasts for the weekend religiously. It has rained either one or both days of the weekend for the whole month of April, and I was hoping for a change in the weather. By the middle of last week, all signs indicated that the weather would be picture-purfect, and my adrenaline started kicking into high gear. I left work early on Friday, to get some last minute things done on my bike-- oil change, add skid plate & pipe guard, and change out the needle. I managed to get that done, but not test-ridden, right before Dave came home early. We then rushed to get the dog down to the kennel before they closed, and then headed over to the mall to catch the next showing of Spider-Man. :) Stopped at the store to pick up some weekend munchies, and we were home by 9pm. Got together the clothes and sleeping bags, but left the bike packing until morning. Saturday morning, up at our normal work-day time. Get showered and pack the last of the essentials, then up to load the trailer. We were on our way by 7:45am. Made it all the way to Hazleton, where we stopped for gas. Picked up a couple sandwiches, and we were off. Except the truck wouldn't start. No buzz, no click, nothing. Crap! Dave tried a few more times. Nada. I had visions of the weekend being spent at the repair shop. Dave tried again, and the truck fired up. What the?? Must be the starter, hitting a bad spot. I've seen it on just about every car I've owned, sooner or later. Well, we drove the last couple miles to the park, and parked the truck. Dave turned the iginition off, and then on again. Nothing! "What do we do?" I said. Dave says-- "We go riding! We'll worry about the truck later..." We get out and the first people we meet are Hucker and Flyin_Kaw, all the way from Canada. We start unloading bikes and gear, and then meet knobbiethrower and rohnman. We all start talking and exchanging stories. We get geared up, and the six of us go out for a late morning ride. I must say, I did warn Hucker that he was forewarned about following Dave in a trail ride, as Dave has been known to find some ah, shall we say, [I]interesting[/I] trails. Most people turn back when things get ugly. Dave will forge ahead, as long as he still sees a trail. Hucker was not to be deterred, and joined right in our merry little group. We headed down to the valley for a few warm-up hillclimbs. Unfortunately, Dave took us right to a dead-end trail. Hucker had the unfortunate position of being behind me as I got stuck trying to make it over a mound of stone chips, and I dug an 8" hole and showered poor Hucker with rocks trying to dig myself out. Luckily, we ended up having to turn around since the trail dead ended. We then headed out to some known trails. There, we introduced the Canadians to "real" woods riding! They had smiles and full of stories about "wait until we tell the guys what we rode through!" Then, it was on to the single track. We rode a bit more than what we had found back in March, and there we found the "ignorant" tight sections. Again, poor Hucker and Flyin_Kaw didn't know what they were in for. MX bikes and not a handguard between them, they plowed on through saplings that were not meant for bikes with handlebars wider than 25". When we got to the end of that trail, we realized it was probably meant to be ridden the other direction. After that little jaunt, we all decided it was probably time for a trip back to the pits, and a bite of lunch. When we got back, Papakeith had rolled in and was unloading his new bike. Shaw520 and his crew had also arrived, and we spent several minutes making introductions. PAThumper also came over and joined in. The place was filling up! After lunch, we went out and found some more rock gardens to play in, and more hills to climb. The rock-strewn "Turtle" trail proved to be more enjoyable as a climb than a descent. Went back to the pits, and it was getting late, so we decided to head to the campground for some serious drinking and BS'ing. Luckily, our truck decided to be nice and started right up for us. We joined the camp caravan and were soon at the campsite, setting up for the evening. Many thanks to Trigger, for borrowing a pop-up camper for Papakeith, Dave and I to crash in that night. Sunday morning we awoke bright and early. Well, most of us except for Shaw and his group! ;) We had a quick breakfast of whatever was lying around, cleaned up camp and drove back to Paragon. There we found RM_Guy unloaded, and Wayneo426 and his crew arrived shortly after. I told Wayne that I expected to see some mud on his bike (unlike the ride at Modena!), and he assured me that he would drop it in a mud puddle just for me. Unfortunately, I didn't see him later in the day to see if he made good on that promise! We got the bikes out and geared up for another day of riding. By the time we were ready to go, I noticed RM_Guy had already taken off with his group. Hmm. Papakeith noticed the same, and commented that he thought RM_Guy was avoiding us, so he wouldn't get caught riding with "The Sadists" group. Pretty obvious! :think: We had our own little following again, and added PAThumper to the mix. This time, we had to find the rock garden trail from March and run it backwards so Hucker and Papakeith could have another run at "The Hill". Papakeith almost made it, and Hucker gave it a couple valiant attempts. PAThumper even tossed his DRZ400 up the hill, which everyone was convinced would be the bike to do it. Alas, The Hill won over everyone, and we moved on for more rock garden crawling. After lunch Sunday, we took another contingent out-- a large group of us started out, and then one group split off to do some fast jeep-trails. The rest of us again followed "The Sadist" into the ignorant tight single-track, going in the "right" direction this time. It was somewhat easier, but still difficult to maneuver. At a jeep road crossing, Trigger bowed out-- he was getting overheated and needed to clear his head on some fast roads, so he took off in search of the other group. We continued on, and rode the single track to it's finish. Phew! We collected the group, and headed back to the pits. Hucker and Flyin_Kaw were already changed into street clothes, and some of the DRN's had called it a day and left. We finished up the day with a short trip out to the pond section, with RM_Guy leading Dave, Papakeith and myself. A couple hillclimbs and a few laps, and we headed back to the pits. We changed back to street clothes, and had another person there take a picture of the small group that was left. We'll have to do better about getting pictures done early, so we can get everyone in the group. All in all, an excellent weekend. Our truck even started up right away for the ride home. You know it's been a good weekend when you're just a bit tired and sore, and on the way home you realize you haven't worried about work, or your house or anything else during the whole weekend! :cool: :) [/QUOTE]
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