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[QUOTE="Michelle, post: 616307, member: 16598"] Karl eventually turned up & we had to continue partying. Saturday, FC22 was meant to be joining us at 9am. At 9.50am, I commented that she’d obviously decided the weather was too crappy & wasn’t going to join us. At 9.56am, along came FC22 (huh, proven wrong, yet again lol). Because of the bad weather, we decided to go inspect a local cave & go riding later on in the day. The cave was ¼ mile away from Canada, so of course we had to hike there (while waiting for the tour guide). Unfortunately, there was no sign saying we’d landed in Canada, so I’ve got nothing to prove I’ve been there, but I know I have been. The cave is lighted, it was neat looking around it. We headed back to camp (stopping to look at local sights along the way), had lunch & got ready to go riding. The rains had diminished, the ground was lovely & wet (nice big puddles). By the time we were suited up, a friend of Bbbom’s turned up with her son, looking to go on a nice, easy first trail ride. Somehow she decided to join us (first trail ride, meaning had never been before). Debbie rides a TW200 and her son rides an XR100. Both did fantastically, it wasn’t an easy ride (I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to rocks, as I just don’t get a chance to ride them here). Debbie somehow hit something & bruised her leg, then later on her bike decided to throw its chain (she hit a rock, I think). Bbbom & Pat went off to chase Karl down to get a bigger wrench, so Eric & I sat waiting for them to come back. Eric ran out of gas while we were riding around trying to keep warm. The others came back after a couple of hours, with the trucks & tie-downs. In tow, were a group of guys they’d found, who went off to sort Debbie’s bike out. Finally we headed back (about 10pm by now, if not later), dropped Debbie & Eric off & went back to camp for dinner. I’ve heard so much about “Karl rides” I’d been disappointed during the day as to how unadventurous this ride was – until Deb broke down lol. Now I felt the day was complete. Sunday we awoke bright & early (yeah, right) and headed off to the Radar Dome (in ruins, but fun to look around). Eric came with us, but Deb didn’t want to fall off again & hurt her leg further (believe me, if you saw it, you’d understand, it was nasty, pretty much all her shin was purple & black & swollen). After heading back to camp, I decided to stay there so Bbbom & Karl could go for a decent ride & not have to babysit me any further. Then it was time to break camp & head home. FC22 left her bike at Bbbom’s place, with a comment that any of us could ride it. Karl took it out for a ride & swapped with me at one point (mistake #1). I took off on it (when I could finally start it & not stall) & headed off down the trail everyone else had taken. As I was at the back (well, Karl was behind me – but he’d stopped to adjust levers on the TLR), I didn’t see where the others had gone & carried on riding (hey, I liked FC’s bike). I rode around for a while (how long was it???) and got myself horribly lost, so stopped for a long break to see if I could hear the others looking for me. I moved from where I’d been waiting to a point higher up the mountain, nearer where I heard the bikes. I heard a bike going further away from me, so decided my best bet was to start the 200 & ride again, so headed off down the mountain again. Karl came past me, yelling “is this a shortcut to NZ we don’t know about” & we headed back up the mountain, to meet up with Bbbom. Eventually we regrouped, headed back to their place, to meet the kids & get ready for another ride. I’d swapped bikes back with Karl, as I didn’t want to injure the 200. I’d also decided it was the bike that keeps getting lost, not the rider!!!! We then headed up “Hangover Hill”, “OoopsIcrappedmypants Hill”, to the Dome on the mountain & what else, I can’t remember – huge fun & my theory worked – I didn’t get lost again hehehehe – but I did fall off once & stall a few times. Tuesday, I packed up, had lunch, said my goodbyes & went back to SFO to head home. I had visions of all sorts of things going wrong, but it was an uneventful trip back home. Heck, I didn’t even have trouble with customs. I’ll try to post some pix at some stage, but as I have 16 rolls of film to be developed, it may take a while lol Thank you to everyone, I had a fantastic trip, huge fun, learnt a lot (you couldn’t tell by my riding, but I’ll be practicing what I did learn on my KDX). ... more to come [/QUOTE]
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