Alex, Ryan, and I ended up at Balm Boyette this morning. It was actually suprisingly cool, which was a nice. At any rate, we pedaled the 2 miles in and rode Loch Ness into the park. From Loch Ness we headed down to Spider Berm. Naturally every now and then we all end up riding over our level. Today I was cranking along pretty quickly when I crested a climb that had a quick left downhill turn on the other side.
The problem was that I could not defy gravity. I hit the brakes hard enough to get stopped but I had already breached the edge of the trail. Combine the momentum that my body still had and the fact that my right foot could not touch the ground and I lost my balance. The next bit of terror going through my mind was that there was very little room on the right side of the trail before the trail just completly dropped off and you end up falling into the gator infested and stagnate water below. At this point I grabbed for branches and vines that were overhead or within reach. I was starting to slide down and grabbed a handful of thorny vines which kept me from going down. I managed to get back onto the trail, and I pulled the bike up. Coincidentally, this is where I lost the bike the very first time I rode the trail back in May.
At any rate, I ended up with skinning my right knee and scraping up another section of my knee and shin.
At this point we continued on to ride upper spider berm, then headed to Golf Cart. We rode Golf Cart over to Panedmonium. None of us felt like riding the drops so we headed over to Sidewinder and then onto Swamp Thing. From here we rode the West Forest trail, on to west meadow and onto east meadow. While we were riding the west forest trail we stopped to see what the scenic overlook looked like. It wasn't too scenic...At this point Alex said he was done, and wanted to head back. I insisted that we do the spur jump which was right next to where we were standing. It wasnt much of a jump, but man it was a fast fun downhill. Since we were heading out I figured we may as well do upper spider berm again (it is a very easy section)and it is shaded. We exited the trail and made our way back out again.
As usual, a great ride!
Ride Details:
Started: Jul 11, 2010 8:14:06 AM
Ride Time: 2:20:45
Stopped Time: 0:00
Distance: 11.35 miles
Average: 4.84 miles/hr
Fastest Speed: 13.10 miles/hr
Climb: 125 feet
Calories: 645
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