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[QUOTE="squeaky, post: 1071831, member: 40666"] What a fabulous weekend! Rooster and I left Little Rhody at 9 a.m. Friday morning to arrive at Red Ridge at 3 p.m.; we had a nice, leisurely drive with little to no traffic. We had a bit of confusion with the woman running Red Ridge, she couldn’t seem to find a reservation under Dirtrider.net or Dave Howe, and she also seemed to have a strange agenda with mixing the “Jeepaholics” with the dirtbikes…so she put us in a different camp site than usual. But, it worked out really well since PK, Dave, and Rob showed up in the “Sissymobile” complete with heat, a/c, and a microwave, and our new campsite had electric and water hook-ups. Great times around the fire Friday night. Jason’s story about the dollar store was classic, especially the part about the pink and purple little girls Huffy bicycle…and the “Pump 4 I can see you’re pumping gas, but what are you pumping it into??” I am still laughing about that! Woke up Saturday morning to a BEAUTIFULLY sunny day. Got to the park, geared up, and while the “men” worked on Gary’s bike, Dave and I took off on a little warm up loop, which was great for me, since I always need a good warm up. We then met up with the rest of the group and rode some really great new trails and some single track, some of which I wasn’t too fond of. We broke for lunch, then Rooster and I took off on our own for the afternoon. All in all we logged 35 miles on Saturday, which is great! Saturday night was pretty uneventful, until Trigger showed up towing his bike with his little Ford Aspire! That cracks me up every time I see it! Him and Jason start roasting his “closed corn” over the fire, and then decide it’s too hot when they pick it up off the fire so they throw it in the cooler with the cans of Schmidt’s beer! Great times every time we all get together! I wish we could do it more often! Sunday was another great day. Rooster and I were packed up and headed to Paragon before 8:30; we were really motivated to get a couple of good hours of riding in before we had to head home. So we got to Paragon, geared up, and we hit the trails by 9 a.m. we were ALL over the place! It was so awesome! We headed to the play area for a bit of a warm up, then Roo took me to that ridge trail that overlooks the play area. That was high up, and scary! He played around on some of the hill climbs while I made my way back down the trail into the play area. Then he decides it’s time for Squeaky to conquer Turtle Hill, going DOWN. :yikes: Well, I did it! I took the advice from everyone about going down hill. I get my bike into first, I let out the clutch, I keep my hands off the front brake, I get my weight over the back fender, and down I start to go. I was freakin’ out I was so nervous!!!!!! But I did it, and that’s all that matters. I covered the rear brake, and used it a bit, but for the most part I just let the engine do the work. And I made it down in 6 minutes without stalling, tipping, crashing, or falling. What a rush! We then headed down to the mine shaft and cooled off there for a bit, then continued on our way. We logged 23 more miles in 2 hours. We were flying! It was awesome! I haven’t ridden this well ever! We found ourselves on a trail that we thought was a triple green, but we either read the trail marker wrong or went the wrong way because it was nothing but a rock garden the whole way. But we both, as tired as we were, managed to tackle the trail get back out to Hall Road and make it back to the parking area by 11. We were packed up and ready to go by noon. We got home around 6 p.m. last night, completely exhausted and unmotivated. All in all we had a great weekend and are totally looking forward to doing it again! Maybe we could plan another group ride in late August or something! [/QUOTE]
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