We arrived and checked into our cabin... great view of the mountains from the wrap-around deck but the cabin needed updating and there was NO A/C!!!!
The view from our cabin porch:
On Saturday we made our way to Sugar Mountain for a day of downhill mountain biking... I got a little worried when we arrived because the first group of bikers we encountered was about 4-5 teenagers all decked out in FULL crash pads- I am talking fully enclosed motorcross helmets, chest guards, full arm and full leg guards, the whole nine yards! I thought to myself- "Omigosh- what have we gotten ourselves into???" We bought our lift tickets and they put us and our bikes on the lifts for the slow crawl up the mtn.
See Mike's bike riding up the lift:
The 30-40 minute lift ride got really old after the first time we rode up. But, the views are beautiful... We get to the mountain top and gear up for the ride down. After seeing the "mountain biking trail" winding over the river and thru the woods along the mountain side.. we decided to stick to the ski slopes and not kill ourselves... that trail had vertical drops any where from 8 feet to 20+ ft in some places! I have never seen such huge rocks before and bikers were actually riding up and down them! We heard one of the younger bikers crashed on the trail somewhere and broke his tooth and then we witnessed a lady fly over her handlebars into a full body contact crash sliding down the mountain side on her chest no less! All I could do is grit my teeth and shake my head for that poor girl! Mike kept saying how glad he was that she was not me! We tried to get some pics but they just do not do justice as to how high or steep this ride really is...
Me flying by Mike:
Mike looking studly:
All in all, we had a nice relaxing "extreme" vacation... I am just so happy that I am not nursing wounds today...
No comments:
Post a Comment