{"id":564,"date":"2009-08-09T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T23:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=564"},"modified":"2013-12-14T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:48:35","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/rain-rain-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, go away…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today my friend BJ organized<\/a> a trip<\/a> back out to Ganaraska for the dualsport guys on the ODSC<\/a> and GTAM<\/a> websites. The forecast mentioned a decent chance of rain, but we were hopeful things would stay dry while we were out and about. We were wrong \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Not too many pictures today, just the normal ones of the crew at the parking lot:<\/p>\n

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…the Lookout…<\/p>\n

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…and the TrailTours guys we seem to see often.<\/p>\n

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A light rain started when we were unloading the bikes… but by the time we had made it through the first few sections of single track it was coming down harder. And not long after getting to Thorpe Hill it started to really get us wet.<\/p>\n

The damp and miserable weather cut the day short, though it was starting to look better when BJ and I headed out. Not only did the rain cut down on the trails we rode, but it played havoc with visibility. The overcast skies made the trails dark, goggles were misty and covered with water blurring the trails, and those with glasses under their goggles had them fog up almost immediately after putting them on. I was “using the force” to ride half of the time… hoping I wouldn’t hit a stray stump, root, or tree and fall off. Some were not so lucky \ud83d\ude42 :<\/p>\n

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It also fogged up the internals of my helmet cam… causing things to come out at a much lower quality than usual. Still, I did get some footage of the first couple trails and our runs at Thorpe Hill. I got skunked: after about 3 tries I never made it up, bah! I did make it up the sand hill later… but by that time I had abandoned my goggles and the camera to see where I was going (so no pics). My ego was only mildly bruised… since many others didn’t make all the hillclimbs either:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a few minutes of YouTube footage from the day: note I screwed up somewhere editing it… and sounds are 1-2 seconds behind when they actually occurred… oops… figure that one out later:<\/p>\n