Quite a few suckers showed up for such a hot day, I cant even count this hi - here we go - if you were left off the list I suggest riding harder next time - DOH..  OK , some fresh faces for the group - jess and Tony (the green bankers - kicking it up a notch (or 2)), Michele riding chiti chiti bang bang (who am I to talk), Todd (#11 red), ATE (airborne tom express), TT or ST (shirtless Todd - the skin to win line was actually for the ladies), Brick, hot lips, PMD, Crash bros, scooter (steel Neil), puke, KC, and Barbie come lately (solo journey)..  Ok - so crash test and I took turns leading, PMD breaks a chain 50 ft from the car, so we had to call the local bike shop to keep them in business (I fixed the chain while she "beat the flies of me")  burn hung back with us hoping we would send smoke signals, but to no avail we were ready to ride in seconds.  Following the fresh tracks we caught up in minutes (it was a random wrong turn thing), the group is back together adventuring the winding single track south of stone road.  Jess airs off the big rock at the top of the blue with ease - not even the slight interest of another taker - gonzo.  More single track - to hells kitchen..  Steep climbs, to impossible steep deadly nobody can ride - ever stairs (jess cleans it - video to come) to an awesome rocky valley descent.  Jess jumping every rock in site, still gets flack from Tony on the finer nuances of cliff jumping..  Two log stunts go kind of bad, but we were amazed at sheer commitment involved - Crash test is buying a new 8" travel downhill bike as we speak im sure.  Up the blue - the group is pretty beat, I clean the right roots, crash on left.  Up to blue we split into 2 groups - I lead the cry baby soup group back to the car and crash bros and scooter rode onward (insert garble here) and may not have even escaped the jungle alive..  Excellent pace for such a large group..  Couple near collisions out of the parking lot, these guys still think they are riding their bikes, later Brick gets the minivan airborne (on the way to carbo-loading)..  So barbie come lately, PMD, PUke and brick hit sliders for food and drinks.  Must have entered some type of time portal because they do everything strange here, you have to order your drinks and food at the bar and they bring you nachos in 2 phases the appetizer phase and dessert phase..  thats all - nice focking ride PM - thanks for not whining.

4 buckets, full of mountain biker deep woods, pubic - butt sweat collected to hydrate those poor bastards riding the toure de frenchie.

PS - there was a loyd under the covers and circling steff sighting on the way home.  I can only assume one of 3 things - Lloyd was in lost mode and couldn't "find" the ride.  There was fear of an approaching thunderstorm.  He road with a bunch of other wienies?!