A MTR Mention on the Simpsons

The Mounds in Mount Morris, May 17, 2008

We have no pictures from today but it was a fun day. We started out really early and arrived at the park around 930am. It was already getting full. The weather was beautiful...unlike they forecasted...

An hour later we were taking Scott (his first time here) around some high technical area, when another group of riders turned the corner at the same time as us... with the path only a foot or so wider than the Big Bear, there wasn't a whole lot of room for us to go.

I was leading, so of course I got hit. Not by one but two of their riders.... wheels were up in the air, rims were bent, and the steering on the big bear is slightly off now, but no one was hurt. Luckily. Everyone was pretty apologetic...but secretly I blame them...

The park was really dry, in fact we've never seen it so dry before. But we did manage to come across two of the muddiest places in the park.

First, since I'm on the Big Bear, I get to go first at a water passing. I came to one I thought was just bit too mysterious, so I turned around and took off another way. Apparently Scott had other plans and buried the Suzuki in the water pretty good. I came back and found him standing on his machine. We tried to pull him out going forward and successfully succeeded in burying the Big Bear (with 4 wheel drive). I blame it all on Sean's bad directions. We pulled the Big Bear out with the Outlaw and then went around and pulled the Suzuki out backwards with the Big Bear. And found another way across.

The second muddy place we found was here: (but with out the trucks).

A bunch of ATV's were testing their skills at crossing it. Although already knowing this was a bad idea, I listened to Sean and attempting to cross. I got about 3/4 of the way through muddy soupy mess and the Big Bear once again got stuck. A guy with a winch came over and helped my out. Suggested I get my own winch.... Sean???

We got everything loaded and home before the rain actually came=a semi-successful day!!

How was your weekend??

St. Helens May 17th

Well here are the key moments of the May 17th St.Helens trip. It was the debut of the LT230.

Then there was a big puddle.
Rode by a shoe tree, very rare in this part of Michigan,.




Greg got stuck.

And well...Greg stayed stuck,

so we left him.

If his wife calls looking for him just say you last seen him at a power sports dealership buying a new quad.

Change of plans for May 17th weekend

We are going to meet at the Mounds instead of St. Helens.  Sean has to fine tune the Blaster some more so we really need a closer place. 

 

Sorry to the guys going to St. Helens, Have fun!!

 

Anyone else who wants to come to the Mounds, let us know.

 

Thanks and Ride on!!!  LOL

A package arrived...

Look what I found when I came home:

The NEW carburetor came for the Blaster... Whoo hooo..

Schedule

So as a (small) group, we came up with a short list of some weekends in the Summer, this is what we have so far:

May 16-17
Scott and Sean are going to go up on Friday am, Jana will drive up Friday afternoon, and Larry Saturday am. Who else is going up and what time? Maybe we can meet up. What is this campground like????

May 23rd (Memorial Day Weekend)
Scott, Jen, and Dan are planning to go to Atlanta, MI if anyone else is interested.

May 30-31
Mio - Dan, Jen, Jana. & Sean, anyone interested?

Sept 12-15 (Tentatively)
UP, north of Newberry, approx. 4 days. Scott, Dan, Jen, Jana, & Sean are all in, anyone else?

Obviously, most of us are still open to short trips (i.e. Mounds, St Helens, etc) and even Silver lake (What weekend does everyone else have in mind? )

If anyone else has any ideas, post them!! Have a good week.

For Larz

Saw these driving yesterday:

Close up:
This guy is WAY too into his Banshee....