TrailTours – Reloaded

This weekend I got to take another trip to TrailTours, this time with more friends! (last time we had 3 people) This time we had 7: Bobby, Craig, Raj, Ruby, Shehzad, Mark and myself. I took fewer pictures this time because I didn’t have any pockets to carry the camera with me, and it was cold enough the camera batteries were dying.

The drive up was uneventful (thanks to my sister for loaning us her car) and we all arrived at around the same time. All the bikes were lined up and ready to go:

After filling out the paperwork we started to line up for gear (Pat is on the left: sweep from our last trip):

It took awhile for all of us to get dressed up, some people needed to switch pants/boots to get something comfortable: unfortunately I didn’t get an early picture of Ruby because she had to go through about 3 pairs of boots to find something at work.

Bobby

Craig

Mark

Shehzad

Raj

Then we got rounded up to listen to the rules-of-the-road, then divided up into groups. Craig and I ended up in a “Novice” group by ourselves with one instructor, and luckily the rest of our team got to learn together. Hopefully Raj will post some of his pictures from his ride that day.

Because Craig and I were split off I don’t have any pictures of the learning group in the morning. We next met up at lunch.

It started out a cold day and we were hoping it would warm up, but when we stopped for food we could still see our breath and many people were freezing. In the forest the temperature was OK because there was no wind: but for the people learning dirtbikes in the middle of a grass field it was a different story – the wind was cold, and many people took the chance to throw on a jacket before heading out in the afternoon. Here’s Ruby all bundled up with her bike:

And here’s some random pictures I took when everyone was getting geared up for the afternoon ride:

Raj took many more pictures when we all stopped at a natural spring for something to drink (hopefully he’ll put them online soon). My last photo was of the TrailTours team washing the bikes for the next day:

Finally, thanks to our instructor Paul for getting Craig and I out and back in one piece!