Ok time to continue on the trip report...
So in my last post, we had just finished up Trail 2 and ended up on G1, which is a green connector trail that goes all the way up to the Northeast park of the park. Joel, Tristan, Alex and myself stopped after we saw the elk to regroup and pick our next trail. We initially were thinking trail 11, but it was quite a bit ways North and we were running out of daylight. It was right around 3pm and we were expecting Dan
@ukaviator and Kevin to arrive at camp around 6:30pm, so we wanted to make sure we were back on time to let them in the cabin and grab dinner.
We decided to skip Trail 11 and hop onto Trail 13, which was about a mile up G1. At this point it started raining/monsooning and the trail was super wet with puddles/lakes everywhere on the trail. About a 1/4 mike through the trail we came up to a huge downed tree that was across the trail. It had been down for a while because luckily (ha) there were 2 side trails to get around the trail.
Tristan was the first up to go around and made it with no major issues. Alex went next up the 1st bypass, but had to back down bc there was a big rock on the top of the hill he would get hung up on (and he doesn’t have sliders, see pic 1). Once he backed down it decided to trail the 2nd bypass route. Granted both ways were pretty off camber and covered with rocks and cut tree stumps. I hugged the left side of the trail to try and avoid the down tree and was 1/2 way passed it as Tristan and Joel were spotting me down.
I inched down further and then all the sudden my rear end slid into the downed tree. My heart sank and looked in the passenger side mirror to see my rear quarter pressed into the tree. At this point I got out to inspect the damage, and of course it was pouring down rain even harder at this point.
After we inspected the damage, we thought up a solution. Joel pulled up his 62 series at a perpincular angle so he could use a snatch block to a tree and pull me off.
