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Dude, you're starting to freak me out... and quit calling my house with that heavy breathing crap! :moon:
Paragon ride review, May3rd & 4th!.
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What a great weekend!
Squeakygirl and I started off on Friday morning around 6:30 am. We loaded up everything (or so we thought) and headed off to Allentown PA to meet up with jmics19067, and Trigger1911. Jmics had offered me a mig welder if I would come and get it, and the meeting point just happened to be Triggers hometown.
After a couple of hours on the road we found ourselves right on schedule, and gave trigger a call. He met us at a Home depot parking lot, and directed us to the tollbooth that had jmics waiting for us.
We made introductions, and transferred the welder. I still can’t get over the fact that he just gave me the welder. He didn’t even want me to give him gas money. Since it was noon, we decided to go have a bite to eat.
<<lunch break>>
From Allentown, we traveled up 309?? To Hazelton, and the campground. On the way the skies started to darken, and eventually we found ourselves in a pretty decent downpour. This had me kind of worried. The camper we just bought needed a new canvas, and I knew that there were some holes in the sides. As luck would have it, I didn’t need to worry. The skies cleared up in about 20 minutes, and not another drop of rain fell all weekend.
We were the first to arrive at the campground. We picked our spot, and set up the camper. In the process Squeaky tore another hole in the canvas. . . we really need to get that thing replaced!!.
As we were setting up camp, in rolled treejumper. I didn’t want to say anything, but this was the third time that he and I had been together for a ride. The first time was for DW01. We never got to ride together because his chain punched a hole in the case of his engine. The second time was DW02. He arrived, and spent the better part of two days trying to get his carb working. He ended up purchasing a new 450, but again, I didn’t get to ride with him. I was hoping that the third time would be the charm, and we would be able to actually get a ride in together.
Flying Scott was the next arrival. He showed up right after dark, with two children in tow. They were more intent on roasting marshmallows than worrying about setting up camp. What are Dads for anyway ;). He and I set about putting together “Uncle’s” tent.
The rest of the night was spent getting acquainted with Alex and Andrew. I was amazed at how many marshmallows they ate J.
We didn’t find out until later that Daniel Joseph, and friends had made camp in another section of the campground. Their rig to say the least was posh. We shouldn’t make too much fun of Woods for staying in a hotel. These guys just brought the hotel with them. Wait, I take that back, lets make fun of Woodspuppy and his lavender shorts anyway!
Saturday dawned with perfect weather. We got geared up, and headed out on the trail. Squeaky was doing great. This was her first real ride with other people, and not in an open pit. She must really like kicking, cause she kept shutting the bike off in the middle of the trail. Hehe. No, really she did great. When she ever climbed that first hill, I was slack jawed! I couldn’t believe she had not only tried it, but actually made it! So, I did what any proud papa would do. I gave chase, caught up with her, and since she was riding next to a puddle instead of riding through it I blasted through it in a celebratory splashing! She took it in stride, and I think started plotting her revenge at that point.
Hopefully some of our pictures come out good, because I’ve got some snapshots of Squeaky on her first trip into singletrack. She and I had split off from the group and went off to find some easy singletrack for her to cut her teeth on. Scooter pointed us in the right direction. I grabbed the camera and took a shot of her making her way through the trees. She went around a corner and out of sight, so I took off after her. I couldn’t help but chuckle when I found her. The point of trail she stopped at was about 6 feet wide. In the center of the trail was a 1-inch sapling. The trail was clear on either side. Squeaky had placed her front wheel squarely into the sapling. She had just had her first lesson in target fixation!
She was doing so well on the single track I decided to challenge her. The next section was a bit tougher than she had been on, but I figured she’d either do it or make me ride her bike out if it was too much. To her credit she tried her damnedest. Then another tree reached out and grabbed her pretty hard. After that, she lost her confidence a bit, it seemed. And she was getting pretty tired of picking the bike up, and starting it. She had made it almost 95 percent of the way through.
We finished out the day by making it back to the parking area. The rocky downhills that she traversed were testament to how much better she had become as a rider in only one days time.
Saturday night- good drinks, good conversation-good night
Sunday was another spectacular day. We really couldn’t have asked for better weather. We headed off like some of the others have said, to Turtle hill, a few water crossings, and some good trails. Again Squeaky surprised me with her determination to conquer every challenge that was set before her. Her boyfriend is going to be very surprised with her riding skills when he rides with her again.
The afternoon is where it really got interesting though.
We made it out to Howie Hill. Samantha made it up first try.
“I thought it was supposed to be tough ;)”, she said.
“Well, he couldn’t make it up”, I said pointing to RMguy. Heheh.
It was a blast!
Squeaky really impressed me. I knew she wanted to learn to ride, but this weekend demonstrated to me that she really loves this stuff! Good for her. It’s been really great to watch her grow as a rider.
It was a great weekend. I finally got to ride with Treejumper. I met Flying Scott, his wife and children. Silver bullet made an appearance, even though it was a short one.
Dave and Lori; they are the best. I always enjoy riding with them.
Kudos to RMguy for putting the whole shebang into motion. Great job
A big thanks to Scooter for showing us around on Saturday. You helped make the weekend great.
I know I’m leaving out a lot of people. But, you all made it a great time.
Thanks. I can’t wait for the next ride.
Squeakygirl and I started off on Friday morning around 6:30 am. We loaded up everything (or so we thought) and headed off to Allentown PA to meet up with jmics19067, and Trigger1911. Jmics had offered me a mig welder if I would come and get it, and the meeting point just happened to be Triggers hometown.
After a couple of hours on the road we found ourselves right on schedule, and gave trigger a call. He met us at a Home depot parking lot, and directed us to the tollbooth that had jmics waiting for us.
We made introductions, and transferred the welder. I still can’t get over the fact that he just gave me the welder. He didn’t even want me to give him gas money. Since it was noon, we decided to go have a bite to eat.
<<lunch break>>
From Allentown, we traveled up 309?? To Hazelton, and the campground. On the way the skies started to darken, and eventually we found ourselves in a pretty decent downpour. This had me kind of worried. The camper we just bought needed a new canvas, and I knew that there were some holes in the sides. As luck would have it, I didn’t need to worry. The skies cleared up in about 20 minutes, and not another drop of rain fell all weekend.
We were the first to arrive at the campground. We picked our spot, and set up the camper. In the process Squeaky tore another hole in the canvas. . . we really need to get that thing replaced!!.
As we were setting up camp, in rolled treejumper. I didn’t want to say anything, but this was the third time that he and I had been together for a ride. The first time was for DW01. We never got to ride together because his chain punched a hole in the case of his engine. The second time was DW02. He arrived, and spent the better part of two days trying to get his carb working. He ended up purchasing a new 450, but again, I didn’t get to ride with him. I was hoping that the third time would be the charm, and we would be able to actually get a ride in together.
Flying Scott was the next arrival. He showed up right after dark, with two children in tow. They were more intent on roasting marshmallows than worrying about setting up camp. What are Dads for anyway ;). He and I set about putting together “Uncle’s” tent.
The rest of the night was spent getting acquainted with Alex and Andrew. I was amazed at how many marshmallows they ate J.
We didn’t find out until later that Daniel Joseph, and friends had made camp in another section of the campground. Their rig to say the least was posh. We shouldn’t make too much fun of Woods for staying in a hotel. These guys just brought the hotel with them. Wait, I take that back, lets make fun of Woodspuppy and his lavender shorts anyway!
Saturday dawned with perfect weather. We got geared up, and headed out on the trail. Squeaky was doing great. This was her first real ride with other people, and not in an open pit. She must really like kicking, cause she kept shutting the bike off in the middle of the trail. Hehe. No, really she did great. When she ever climbed that first hill, I was slack jawed! I couldn’t believe she had not only tried it, but actually made it! So, I did what any proud papa would do. I gave chase, caught up with her, and since she was riding next to a puddle instead of riding through it I blasted through it in a celebratory splashing! She took it in stride, and I think started plotting her revenge at that point.
Hopefully some of our pictures come out good, because I’ve got some snapshots of Squeaky on her first trip into singletrack. She and I had split off from the group and went off to find some easy singletrack for her to cut her teeth on. Scooter pointed us in the right direction. I grabbed the camera and took a shot of her making her way through the trees. She went around a corner and out of sight, so I took off after her. I couldn’t help but chuckle when I found her. The point of trail she stopped at was about 6 feet wide. In the center of the trail was a 1-inch sapling. The trail was clear on either side. Squeaky had placed her front wheel squarely into the sapling. She had just had her first lesson in target fixation!
She was doing so well on the single track I decided to challenge her. The next section was a bit tougher than she had been on, but I figured she’d either do it or make me ride her bike out if it was too much. To her credit she tried her damnedest. Then another tree reached out and grabbed her pretty hard. After that, she lost her confidence a bit, it seemed. And she was getting pretty tired of picking the bike up, and starting it. She had made it almost 95 percent of the way through.
We finished out the day by making it back to the parking area. The rocky downhills that she traversed were testament to how much better she had become as a rider in only one days time.
Saturday night- good drinks, good conversation-good night
Sunday was another spectacular day. We really couldn’t have asked for better weather. We headed off like some of the others have said, to Turtle hill, a few water crossings, and some good trails. Again Squeaky surprised me with her determination to conquer every challenge that was set before her. Her boyfriend is going to be very surprised with her riding skills when he rides with her again.
The afternoon is where it really got interesting though.
We made it out to Howie Hill. Samantha made it up first try.
“I thought it was supposed to be tough ;)”, she said.
“Well, he couldn’t make it up”, I said pointing to RMguy. Heheh.
It was a blast!
Squeaky really impressed me. I knew she wanted to learn to ride, but this weekend demonstrated to me that she really loves this stuff! Good for her. It’s been really great to watch her grow as a rider.
It was a great weekend. I finally got to ride with Treejumper. I met Flying Scott, his wife and children. Silver bullet made an appearance, even though it was a short one.
Dave and Lori; they are the best. I always enjoy riding with them.
Kudos to RMguy for putting the whole shebang into motion. Great job
A big thanks to Scooter for showing us around on Saturday. You helped make the weekend great.
I know I’m leaving out a lot of people. But, you all made it a great time.
Thanks. I can’t wait for the next ride.
LoriKTM
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Ooh, I didn't realize you were taking pictures, either!! :eek:
Next time, remind me to ride through those water crossings RIGHT AFTER you do. ;)
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PATHUMPERGUY
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well it was good to see everyone saturday night at the campground,maybe next time i'll actually get to ride with some of the group(not to discredit jason; nice loop!).to any one to stayed home because the weather,boy did you screw up;it was beautiful!thank to Gixxer and his bud for the help loading up on sat.-next time we'll make the ramp fit! so when are we going again?
Flying Scot
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PATHUMPERGUY,
So far under the PA riders posting we have formed some sort of attempt at a revival. So far for Memorial weekend probably the 25th, JasonJ ( maybe with his girlfriend ) RV6Junkie with his son and I with my 2 adorable children and my friend Phil ( the wife says money is to tight so I am working on her to go as well ). That is the plan- also our group probably will hit Traxx at Jack frost on Saturday and head to Paragon for Sunday.
I will start a thread under places to ride to see if there is more interest. Wanna come. :thumb:
So far under the PA riders posting we have formed some sort of attempt at a revival. So far for Memorial weekend probably the 25th, JasonJ ( maybe with his girlfriend ) RV6Junkie with his son and I with my 2 adorable children and my friend Phil ( the wife says money is to tight so I am working on her to go as well ). That is the plan- also our group probably will hit Traxx at Jack frost on Saturday and head to Paragon for Sunday.
I will start a thread under places to ride to see if there is more interest. Wanna come. :thumb:
"Ooh, I didn't realize you were taking pictures, either!!
Next time, remind me to ride through those water crossings RIGHT AFTER you do. "
Ehhh hehehehe, beware Jason in Stelth mode! Yeah, but remember I followed Trigger through the deep hole and nearly missed running over him as he apparently threw the XR down on the far shore in what appeared to be some type of FMX end of run celebration display :).
LOL, yeah, you have to remember to stay behind the helm cam guys, but infront or just behind the digital cam guys :). That being said, I see no pictures of me by anyone else so that means I had a good weekend and didnt fall to bad, or nobody saw me it or I got up before anyone got a camera out.
Yeah, the trail awaits pic was taken at the same spot as the one where Lori was waiting on the bike looking down and where Sam was getting some help up the hill, all shot at the same time. It was somewere before turtle hill on the South ridge coming up out of the vally.
Next time, remind me to ride through those water crossings RIGHT AFTER you do. "
Ehhh hehehehe, beware Jason in Stelth mode! Yeah, but remember I followed Trigger through the deep hole and nearly missed running over him as he apparently threw the XR down on the far shore in what appeared to be some type of FMX end of run celebration display :).
LOL, yeah, you have to remember to stay behind the helm cam guys, but infront or just behind the digital cam guys :). That being said, I see no pictures of me by anyone else so that means I had a good weekend and didnt fall to bad, or nobody saw me it or I got up before anyone got a camera out.
Yeah, the trail awaits pic was taken at the same spot as the one where Lori was waiting on the bike looking down and where Sam was getting some help up the hill, all shot at the same time. It was somewere before turtle hill on the South ridge coming up out of the vally.
jmics19067
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ahhh thank you all for the excellent posts and pictures. It had a double edge sword on it though for curing my anxiousness to get out and ride.
glad all of you had fun, dang SqueakyGirl you made it up Howe Hill 1st shot without a problem. Ugh I am only good for maybe 3 out of 10 tries. Also dont worry about downhills Gravity will always help you out one way or another , You will eventually get there :confused:
PapaKieth, don't worry about the welder , it was delivered to my door for free once. I believe there is a lot of good Karma in that thing, or atleast in the people that had it before me. I am just trying to keep the good flow going ya know! It suited my purpose for a bit and I hope it suits yours.
Memorial Weekend ride? Hopefully I will have my projects done and make that one!
glad all of you had fun, dang SqueakyGirl you made it up Howe Hill 1st shot without a problem. Ugh I am only good for maybe 3 out of 10 tries. Also dont worry about downhills Gravity will always help you out one way or another , You will eventually get there :confused:
PapaKieth, don't worry about the welder , it was delivered to my door for free once. I believe there is a lot of good Karma in that thing, or atleast in the people that had it before me. I am just trying to keep the good flow going ya know! It suited my purpose for a bit and I hope it suits yours.
Memorial Weekend ride? Hopefully I will have my projects done and make that one!
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Yeah but like i told Trig, if they fall down go over them. :laugh: You'll see that on the tape which should be at your house by time you get home today.
Hey Tree Jumper, can I get a copy of the tape too? I cant PM you but can you dorp me a line at [email protected] when you get a chance please?
Trigger1911
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Acopy for me too JJ!
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Listen up Papacarnage, between you a Dan J. I'm going to bring the heavy-duty duct tape next time I ride with either of you.
Nothing gives me the heebie-jeebies like two guys checkin' out my butt. :eek:
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Hey, you got one of me!
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Nice Tree Squeaky! Now i'll just have to teach you how to "Jump" over them. :)
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Now that hurts! :moon:
Actually i thought i'd teach you the proper way from the start but if you really want to go "into" them first, we can do that. :)
Actually i thought i'd teach you the proper way from the start but if you really want to go "into" them first, we can do that. :)
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Your welcome! Rub it in on how much fun he missed and what a wuss he is for not coming. :p
Oh, mail lady just dropped off my drivers license.