10-18-08-post canyon

weather was great when i left the house this morning. a bit of rain in the air, but i knew the skies would clear as i headed toward Hood River. I arrived at fat larry and aprils house at 7:30 and we headed out to post.

when we arrived in hood river, we realized we were a bit ahead of carlisle and mormon craig, so we headed back to the 76 station to get beer. we hooked up with some blackrock locals when we arrived at the gas station; we headed back out to the trails...that was about the last time things were going well for the blackrock guys (Louis and Erick) Erick is the guy that crashed going off the cheese grater a few months back and had blood coming out of his goocher...there was eight of us total; fat larry, april, frank (xc bike guy) erick (bloody thingy) louis (don't you want to know what my name is dad) carlisle, mormon craig and myself.

so about 500 feet or so into the ride down from the top ole bloody goocher crashed on a small jump and wacked his head harder than i've ever seen anybody hit their head. This guy scrambled his brain pretty good...just asking the same things over and over, like every 30 seconds! his buddy louis thought that it would be a good idea to get him to a hospital, but guess what.....louis crashed and broke his right collar bone! could the two of these guys had any worse luck? they left the group near drop zone and headed down to their cars...i hope they made it home o.k.

so other than these two guys getting hurt we were having a great day/ride...drinking a few beers sharing some good stories...till we got down to seven streams trail where a lady had crashed off a ladder bridge and messed herself up good. the paramedics were carrying her out in and on what looked like a body bag. they said it looked way worse than it was and that she would live to ride another day!

mormon craig and carlisle were riding awesome today, car hit a bunch of new things that he had never hit before and mormon craig was back hitting the jumps on chorus. the day was a bit weird and i once again did not take any pictures. i need to start working on the filming for this years videos.