10/1 essex

I found something else you don't think on the way to a ride. Shit I forgot my rain jacket/pants.

making haste to go ride i leave the camel back with both at home.

ride some newly cut trails, moist with some puddles. one or two drops.

those drops turn into a down pour. i find a nice conifer tree and squat. out of the rain mostly.

water is filling the corners around me. the trail turns to a river bed.

ohhh it lightens up, to be followed by round 2 accoumpied with thunder, and lightning.

cold. wet. trails are again saturated. rip the downhill back to the logging road. ride fast out.

wool hat from the trunk. sit in the trunk watch the lightning and others sitting in cars.

the folliage was really nice though. and those 30 minutes that I did pedal were rad.