My Muddy Buddy

So... a few days ago, we decided to go mountain biking in one of our favorite places to bike - Ute Valley. There were a few clouds in the sky, but hey - we live in Colorado. That doesn't always mean much. So we packed up the bikes and we were on the trail in no time.

We had been biking for all of 5 minutes when it started to rain! We got off of our bikes and found a tree that somewhat sheltered us from the rain - but we still ended up getting pretty wet!

The rain finally let up and then we hit the trail again... BUT it was MUDDY!!


We tried to keep going for awhile, but our tires got so packed with mud that they had no tread whatsoever and we were just sliding around on the trail like we were on a muddy Slip-and-Slide!



So... we headed back on the paved trail after we finally made it out of the quagmire we were in. As we picked up speed on the paved trail back to the truck, massive amounts of mud came flying off of our tires and our bikes!

Both bikes (and both of us!) got a good bath when we got back home.

Lesson learned: never bike in thick clay-like mud! :)