Met up with rueler and migs 01 at right around 4. Took a few minutes to get ready and then right as we were about to leave the infamous CNR of crankfire fame showed up to chat with rueler and migs for a bit. Seemed like a nice guy. He wasn't riding tonight so we wrapped things up and headed out. The only thing I really had on my agenda today was to hit that A-frame in the warm-up twisties area. This was my first time riding in the area in the light since I was showed it and was something I wanted to check off the list since everyone else seemed to be having so much fun on it. The a-frame went fine, it was easy as expected. I contemplated the jump right after it, but bailed instead, another time. From there we went across the caveman bridges and finished up that section. Migs had never seen the drop in the beginning section across from Scoville so we went in there to check it out. Rueler hit it with no problems and Migs handled it fine after giving it the once over. I, of course, did not attempt it.
From there we decided to go hit the standard loop. It was pretty uneventful, but some sections were a bit more tricky than usual due to all the leaves on the ground. I almost bit it on that narrow bridge in the middle, luckily it was right towards the end where there was a tree to bounce off of to keep upright. I cleared only slightly more of the sections after that. As I mentioned the leaves played some tricks, I got hung up in some ruts that I couldn't see on the first part of the Cornwall climb (on the fire road part), which never happens. I got really winded on the climb, probably more than usual. The rest of the loop was uneventful, just the normal bobbles for me. On the way back we stopped off and did the little loop with the skinnier a-frame at the beginning, which I hit with no problem. Rueler and migs played on some of the stuff in there and then we high tailed it back to the cars as it was getting dark and migs didn't feel like digging his light out. rueler and I both had ours going and we made it out, without incident, to the cars just before 6:30.
All in all a good ride. It was great to finally meet migs and a pleasure to ride with rueler again. I hope I didn't hold those guys up too much. It felt good to be back on the bike. I was a bit worried that my lower back, right hip would be bothering me again, that wasn't an issue though.
From there we decided to go hit the standard loop. It was pretty uneventful, but some sections were a bit more tricky than usual due to all the leaves on the ground. I almost bit it on that narrow bridge in the middle, luckily it was right towards the end where there was a tree to bounce off of to keep upright. I cleared only slightly more of the sections after that. As I mentioned the leaves played some tricks, I got hung up in some ruts that I couldn't see on the first part of the Cornwall climb (on the fire road part), which never happens. I got really winded on the climb, probably more than usual. The rest of the loop was uneventful, just the normal bobbles for me. On the way back we stopped off and did the little loop with the skinnier a-frame at the beginning, which I hit with no problem. Rueler and migs played on some of the stuff in there and then we high tailed it back to the cars as it was getting dark and migs didn't feel like digging his light out. rueler and I both had ours going and we made it out, without incident, to the cars just before 6:30.
All in all a good ride. It was great to finally meet migs and a pleasure to ride with rueler again. I hope I didn't hold those guys up too much. It felt good to be back on the bike. I was a bit worried that my lower back, right hip would be bothering me again, that wasn't an issue though.
