Sunday @ the frozen "Farm"

The HS waited till the last second to decide where and when to ride but the Farm fit the bill.  Due to several winter storms the trails had quite a bit of debris and the first loop was a work loop.
Craig_enid, Mary, ViolettSP, and friend Arron arrived at the crack of O'dark-thirty with temps in the mid twenties(Hardcore in MHO).  When I arrived at 9:45 I spotted them crossing the pasture.  I could see two stroke smoke and their breaths coming from their helmets:scream:.  But what the hey, it was supposed to be in the upper 50's and bright sunshine. 
Well for once lately, the weatherman nailed the forecast.  It started warming up quickly and I was unloaded, dressed and ready to ride.  The ground was starting to thaw on the surface so it made for some tricky corning, slime on top, ice underneath with completely frozen where the sun had yet to shine.  We hit the Farm's MX track and made a few loops.  The track was in fair shape and made for some good warmup riding.  A quick run back to the trucks to see if anyone had arrived, a change of riders, and back to the track we went.  Arron rides bicycle trials and was new to dirtbikes but you could tell he had the basic skills.  I helped him learn basic throttle and body position skills over a very small jump using second gear.  Let him see what "NOT" to do and how to choose the right body position and throttle setting for different types of obstacles.  Funny that Craig_enid asked me of all people to give "jumping" lessons. :confused:
A bit later, Justql arrived, then DWreck.  We made a few trips around the MX track and then hit the woods.  At first it was a battle to find the trail so we all would brake slide, roost, brake slide, roost.  We made a short loop and when we got back, OKKX'r was there.  Once the majority of downed trees were moved, we started making loops.  Each loop got quicker as we each got a rythem.  I enjoyed seeing DWreck pull off the Freestyle move the Justql's oldest son taught him.  It was a wicked whip, a full 180 degrees and flat as a pancake.  I think Quint forgot to tell him that it was supposed to be done while you are in the air and not after you land the big step up.  :laugh:

All in all a great day.  The temps were fabulous and the company, well, they were typical Heartland Spodes, great folks.

I can't beleive how sore I am.  My neck feels like I carried 50 pounds around.  Haven't had a helmet on for that long since DW02.  I'm going to look into getting Brutus a juice clutch if the smaller sproket doesn't do the trick for the really tight stuff.  When the trails are not as tight, Brutus just cruises but the really knarly tight stuff requires a lot of clutching.  I stalled out numerous times from fatigue and slamming the rear brake. 
One lesson learned.  Don't park Brutus in tall grass.  That header pipe nearly started a fire!  Smelled something and the grass was about to ignite.  By days end, we were making some spirited runs thru the trees, Thump would of had a coronary!  MXBundy would likely carved a wider trail and TTRGuy would have been in Heaven. 
I for one think that the Farm is much nicer than Justql puts on.  There are probably better places but the whole atmosphere and company makes up the difference.