tradygirl
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Apologies to any of the TGR girls who may have seen this already...
For reasons to be explained in this post, details will be sparse since typing is not so fast right now.
Spring break in St George. Temps in the 70's and a great crew of friends. We rolled into town on Thursday afternoon to sunny skies, 72 degrees, and a pimp house to stay in. Friday was a whole day at Gooseberry (spectacular!) On Sat we decided to try some new stuff we'd never done down in St George proper. First was Bearclaw Poppy. This trail had huge bang for the buck! With stuff like the "3 fingers of death", "clavicle hill", "the acid drops", and "the rollercoaster", how can you go wrong? After a quick loop on Bearclaw, we picked our way up to the Barrel Trail. Lots of fun singletrack, a few dicey descents, and a crazy freeride area that was way over my head.
Sunday we decided to ride a trail called "Broken Mesa" on the way out of town. Omen? The description we had found made it sound like an upper intermediate downhill trail with a few spicy sections. Uh...no. Way more technical than we expected, and the whole trail was full of nasty sharp tire-sucking basalt. Lo and behold, I ended up catching a pedal at high speed and crashing spectacularly face-first into a rock. After a full body check, the result was a broken wrist, broken elbow, and four stitches on my upper lip - and a 3 mile hike out to the car.
Here's the ingenious sling that the boys threw together:
Pretty, huh?
Bottom line, that trail would be a lot more fun with my Ironhorse and a full-face (duh).
So here's hoping for at least a few weeks of corn season touring - I get my cast off in six weeks ( I need to get some pics of my awesome purple cast). I'll be down to just a wrist cast in 3 weeks, so if I can hold a pole, it's on. :p
For reasons to be explained in this post, details will be sparse since typing is not so fast right now.
Spring break in St George. Temps in the 70's and a great crew of friends. We rolled into town on Thursday afternoon to sunny skies, 72 degrees, and a pimp house to stay in. Friday was a whole day at Gooseberry (spectacular!) On Sat we decided to try some new stuff we'd never done down in St George proper. First was Bearclaw Poppy. This trail had huge bang for the buck! With stuff like the "3 fingers of death", "clavicle hill", "the acid drops", and "the rollercoaster", how can you go wrong? After a quick loop on Bearclaw, we picked our way up to the Barrel Trail. Lots of fun singletrack, a few dicey descents, and a crazy freeride area that was way over my head.
Sunday we decided to ride a trail called "Broken Mesa" on the way out of town. Omen? The description we had found made it sound like an upper intermediate downhill trail with a few spicy sections. Uh...no. Way more technical than we expected, and the whole trail was full of nasty sharp tire-sucking basalt. Lo and behold, I ended up catching a pedal at high speed and crashing spectacularly face-first into a rock. After a full body check, the result was a broken wrist, broken elbow, and four stitches on my upper lip - and a 3 mile hike out to the car.
Here's the ingenious sling that the boys threw together:
Pretty, huh?
Bottom line, that trail would be a lot more fun with my Ironhorse and a full-face (duh).
So here's hoping for at least a few weeks of corn season touring - I get my cast off in six weeks ( I need to get some pics of my awesome purple cast). I'll be down to just a wrist cast in 3 weeks, so if I can hold a pole, it's on. :p
And it did sound like a lot of fun (before it stopped being fun).
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