This past week of warm weather did a number on the snow remaining in our beloved Sandilands! They had a good foot of snow last week but by today it was non-existent and so we took advantage of a plus one day and went for yet another ride! It was still cold but the great thing was the ground was completely frozen. I actually found that out after falling over while turning my bike around on the trail and being unable to unclip in time. Yeah the guys laughed and I definitely felt the solidness of the ground!
The Boyz Having Fun on the Roller-Coaster! It was a little unnerving though with the occasional blast of hunters...last day of muzzle load and apparently the hunters were storming the forest in search of the elusive buck trophy. We hit a trail that unfortunately has been deteriorated to the point where it was almost unrideable. The quads tend to rut out the trail and the erosion of the ground into loose sand just takes away the fun but recent rains and below zero temps resulted in the ground being perfectly frozen making the unclimbable doable!
One of my attempts at climbing the "Hill"So needless to say we were hooting and hollering as we climbed some amazing hills and sped through a section appropriately named the "roller-coaster." The cool thing about that section is that it is possible to make it down one hill and 3/4 of the way up the next purely on sheer momentum...and the g-forces are scary but addictive! All three of us had a few close calls but well worth the effort!
A Great Blurred Shot of One of my Timid Descents...Oh and the shots were all taken with my point & shoot so not as nice as my digital SLR but with a little tweaking in Picasa they worked out alright. I also took some cool video footage of our attempts of climbing & descending.
UPDATE: I removed the video clip i had here as I took the clips and added them over here if interested! All in all great way to spend a Saturday!!! It also happened to be Remembrance Day and hearing the shots in the distance was a bit eerie...apparently there are only three Canadian veterans alive from the first world war - life definitely is temporary on this planet. War seems like such a waste of human efforts & resources but clearly we all appreciate the freedom we have here in Canada. Peace on Earth!
One of my attempts at climbing the "Hill"
A Great Blurred Shot of One of my Timid Descents...
4 comments:
That was FUN! Listen closely to Jason in the video at the end of his climb... he sounds like the mad "cat lady" from "The Simpson's".
No kidding that was fun - which is why we spent another 30 minutes there today kicking that hill into submission! If it weren't for the g-forces and the chance of spilling I'd say I almost got bored of it....I'll try and post some more vids from our time there this lovely opening day of hunting season for our rifle-lugging redneck hunter friends...woot!
The ground must be frozen, eh? Can't see how else you'd be able to climb that sandy slope at all.
Yeah the ground was frozen...I moved all the clips to my most recent post (as of 11/18/06) so you can see a bit more of the fun we had last Saturday & Monday! I went riding today with Jason (Sunday) and put on another 12 kms just before sunset...we had a light dusting of snow which we thought might affect our climbing & descents but it didn't make a huge difference!
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