Thursday, July 5, 2007

Glade to Pioneer Bridal 2007

We started out bright and early this year, left my house at about 4:15 to find this on the back window. Boy dave is so funny! I then headed to Fat Larry's house and was there just after 4:30a.m. we all piled in the larry mobile and met josh at starbucks in beaverton.



From Starbucks we headed out to the flying j truckstop in troutdale to meet up with the rest of the shuttle vehicles. We also saw that the weather was going to be awesome while driving across the bridge.










There was a huge caravan of cars, vans and trucks headed up to the mountain. When we got to Campcreek campground it was crazy. Like 30-40 people on bikes with cars...i've never seen so many people there in my life. Hack was in his normal fine form as this old guy tried to tell a bunch of A.D.D. mountain bikers where to park. I think i just said, "Let's go to the top" and walked away. On the way up to the top of the mountain there were even more riders parked along side the road ready to follow us to the top and join in on the madness!

This was the scene as we got to the top of the mountain. We also had a few European guests and some rednecks from down south.



I am just amazed at Sebastian, he is in awesome shape but still smokes...he's definately a freak of nature!




We all headed up to the huge rock at the top of the glade trail for a group photo.

After a few picture moments up here, we headed down the trail. I can always remember this trail being totally rocky and nargly for the first couple miles. However after doing some riding in Canada, this place seems pretty smooth and flat in comparison. Here is a shot of the the middle section of trail and a shot of Dirk rockin out! The ride was great, no major crashes. There were a ton of flat tires. I think at first count in the first part of the trail there had to be at least five flat tires. No fun for those guys! Most of us only did one run, I think there were six or seven people that did the second run and guess what...they had no flat tires. This ride has been a great tradition for the past five years and I can't wait for the next one. Jamie

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