First, I want to thank Alan and Vance for getting the ball rolling on this endeavor!
We all met at the parking lot of the Walmart in Salida amidst mid 40 degree weather. Vance and Genea were the trail leaders for the day in Vance's lifted VX. They did a great job!! He lead us to some very nice trails with great diversity. On our first trail we did get to a point where we couldn't get any further due to snow. (I have to take partial blame. The stock tires do pretty well but could have been better) Vance was triing to keep us from getting banged up and with the ice and snow that was on the trail, that would not have been very hard..
Moncha gave me and Laura a bit of a scare when we slid back down a polished area but, we finally made it.
All the other trails were on the sunny side of the mountains and thus had patches of dry and snow. That kept the trial more interesting for me. On a very thin, steep trail, Vance bogged down but, made it up while Dan gave us quite a show when he pulled out of a nose down slide whit his rear coming around quite fast.... Whew!!! He did a great job!! Alan and Kurt made it up and down with nary a problem.. I didn't try.. It was just a little to steep and slick.
We ended the day with a great hot meal at a local eatery and traded more stories..
What a wonderful day!! Thanks to all we had a great time!!!
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