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First off want to apologize to the guys for not being able to make the 9:00a.m. start time. I was extremely tired and then realized I had to go by my parents to pick up my riding gear and that would have been a 20 minute delay...anyhow, I made it to Canyon Vista's about 11:30, saw Rob's car with the rack on it.
Call it karma, but I left my arm protection in my truck and figured I have ridden 5Oaks enough to make it down without incident, WRONG!. As I rounded the kinda steep right hander and set up to make my way between the rock and the root on outside portion of the trail my left pedal snagged the root and I pulled a "kippie OTB", I felt like I was in slow motion as I began to realize that I was going to eat sh*t, not only that, but this is a pretty steep section and I remember thinking to myself as I was going OTB, "oh sh*t, my face is going to slam that next root about 5 feet down the trail. Sure enough I complete my endo and slam very hard on to that root and I came unclipped and continued to roll one more time and slammed my head hard into the dirt. At first I was slightly dazed and then when the dust settled, I noticed two gashes on underside of my right forearm about 5 inches long, both bleeding, an instant mouse appeared on my right elbow along with some road/dirt rash above my elbow and below it too. My left elbow is sporting some road/dirt rash too, as well as my right knee, just above it I think my pedal came down on me or something cause I have a nice bloody gash about 2 inches in diameter with a lump and my left knee also got cut. Oh yeah, a pretty long scrape is running from my wasteline about 1/2 way up my back along the right side too. From now on I will always wear my arm protection no matter how many times I've ridden a trail. If I was wearing it, only my knee's and back would be tore up, but now I feel like I've bruised my right arm/elbow severely and it hurt to put my bike in the back of my truck.
I cut my ride short and only did Rock-It after climbing Cholla, I didnt want to risk further injury by potentially eating sh*t on Lynx. Rock-It was in great shape, looks like someone did some trail maintenance on it. 5Oaks was almost back to its dusty/powdery self for the most part. Oh yeah, right before the steps section of Oaks I passed two kids sitting in the middle of the ST smoking some reefer and they had a shovel with them, kinda weird.
Hope you guys had a good ride, I'm assuming you did the usual shuttle loop, and I'm bummed I wasn't able to make it this morning.
Call it karma, but I left my arm protection in my truck and figured I have ridden 5Oaks enough to make it down without incident, WRONG!. As I rounded the kinda steep right hander and set up to make my way between the rock and the root on outside portion of the trail my left pedal snagged the root and I pulled a "kippie OTB", I felt like I was in slow motion as I began to realize that I was going to eat sh*t, not only that, but this is a pretty steep section and I remember thinking to myself as I was going OTB, "oh sh*t, my face is going to slam that next root about 5 feet down the trail. Sure enough I complete my endo and slam very hard on to that root and I came unclipped and continued to roll one more time and slammed my head hard into the dirt. At first I was slightly dazed and then when the dust settled, I noticed two gashes on underside of my right forearm about 5 inches long, both bleeding, an instant mouse appeared on my right elbow along with some road/dirt rash above my elbow and below it too. My left elbow is sporting some road/dirt rash too, as well as my right knee, just above it I think my pedal came down on me or something cause I have a nice bloody gash about 2 inches in diameter with a lump and my left knee also got cut. Oh yeah, a pretty long scrape is running from my wasteline about 1/2 way up my back along the right side too. From now on I will always wear my arm protection no matter how many times I've ridden a trail. If I was wearing it, only my knee's and back would be tore up, but now I feel like I've bruised my right arm/elbow severely and it hurt to put my bike in the back of my truck.
I cut my ride short and only did Rock-It after climbing Cholla, I didnt want to risk further injury by potentially eating sh*t on Lynx. Rock-It was in great shape, looks like someone did some trail maintenance on it. 5Oaks was almost back to its dusty/powdery self for the most part. Oh yeah, right before the steps section of Oaks I passed two kids sitting in the middle of the ST smoking some reefer and they had a shovel with them, kinda weird.
Hope you guys had a good ride, I'm assuming you did the usual shuttle loop, and I'm bummed I wasn't able to make it this morning.
