Timber_12
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So, I finally got out for a ride today in the Kakwa area with a friend. Crappy conditions but it was all new area for me. After we played in the trees in Flattop, we headed back the way we came to see if we could find some sunshine.
As we retracked our path out we came to one big hill that we had passed on the way in. We had just seen a guy on the hill and we were off to the side behind a knoll.
As my friend starts to explain to me not to ride on that hill as he's watched it slide right in front of him, and rode past it numerous times and seen that it had slid, we started to watch as first one guy gets stuck turning out on that very hill, and then withing a minute there's two more guys climbing around him.
So we ride up onto the knoll to have a look from a fairly safe spot and we watched as the group of 5-6 guys continuously climbed the hill. 2, 3, 4 guys at a time. Then we watched as four more guys came and joined them and now it was 5, 6, and I think at one point 7 guys all climbing the same face.
And where's the best place to park while waiting for your turn to climb? Why where better than right at the bottom of the hill at the start of the runout chute?!
Absolutely unbelievable! Yes I agree, you may not realize that the hill is a bad slider, especially if you don't look at the trees around you or the huge runout chute, so I suppose that can be excused perhaps, but to be all on the hill and parked facing uphill at the very bottom of the hill is just plain dumb.
As we retracked our path out we came to one big hill that we had passed on the way in. We had just seen a guy on the hill and we were off to the side behind a knoll.
As my friend starts to explain to me not to ride on that hill as he's watched it slide right in front of him, and rode past it numerous times and seen that it had slid, we started to watch as first one guy gets stuck turning out on that very hill, and then withing a minute there's two more guys climbing around him.
So we ride up onto the knoll to have a look from a fairly safe spot and we watched as the group of 5-6 guys continuously climbed the hill. 2, 3, 4 guys at a time. Then we watched as four more guys came and joined them and now it was 5, 6, and I think at one point 7 guys all climbing the same face.
And where's the best place to park while waiting for your turn to climb? Why where better than right at the bottom of the hill at the start of the runout chute?!
Absolutely unbelievable! Yes I agree, you may not realize that the hill is a bad slider, especially if you don't look at the trees around you or the huge runout chute, so I suppose that can be excused perhaps, but to be all on the hill and parked facing uphill at the very bottom of the hill is just plain dumb.
