Another day on the trails..

So as I said Marshal came up to the ol' Wilkes County today and his uncle Eric ended up joining him for today's ride. Marshal got up a little later than we originally planed for so we didnt start riding till going on 2 PM. We decided we would hit the highlights of Dark Mountain and then go ride all of OVT because Marshall had never been on that trail before.

So we began our climb up Dark Mountain and were rolling on pretty well. Marshal informed me that he was going to hold my wheel so I wouldn't talk junk about him on the blog like I did Justin the other day. I told him that was what blogs were for.

As we were heading down the dark mountain decent it started to pour the rain. So much for a zero percent chance. We decided to push on over to OVT and do as much as we could. As we started it was still pouring and after we had went a little ways we came around a corner and a boy was off the side of the trail crying. Im guessing he had fail but as soon as he saw us he jumped right up and said he was fine and hoped on his bike and rode away. We went on a bit further and decided to wait on Marshal's uncle. We waited for what seemed like forever and when he showed up he informed us his brakes weren't working good but he wanted to go on. So we pushed it on pretty good pace as it stopped raining.

The trail dried quickly and as we aproached the second road crossing we stopped again to wait on Eric. This time we sat there for at least 20-30 minutes. Finally this guy rolled up and we asked if he had seen a guy with a neon jersey. He replied yeah but he was headed the other way. We guessed he had just got tired or his brakes were bad and he had turned back.

We decided to finish the trail anyway and I told Marshal we would pick up the pace. This was the begining of Marshals downfall. However I finally got a chance to go ahead and stop and get some shots of Marshal catching back up. Toward the end I could tell he was tired and I asked him what happedned. He replied "I ate to much food and got fat". Hard to come back with anything to that.

This was probably my favorite pic of the day. Marshal just couldnt quite make that uphill root section.

We met Eric back at the jeep and he had decided to just turn around. In the end we had a much shorter ride than I expected at only about 20 miles. Lots of fun none the less.

Sorry Marshal I tried to keep the smack talk to a minimum.