Wednesday we took off to Chipewa Forest, just out of Effie Minnesota, with Kurt and Robin Hopp to ride ATV's for a few days. It was great. Kurts boss, Glen Nolan, so kindly borrowed us a couple of his machines (trusting fella huh?). Kurt and Robin invited us stay in there super duper nice new toy hauler camper (first class all the way).
That day, after driving about two and a half hours, we set up camp and headed out. We rode for a couple hours, came back to fuel up and headed back out for another ride before supper. That ride turned out to be somewhat disasterous. Robin hit a log wrong and it launched her and her 750 plus pound machine airborne. She landed on her back with the wheeler on top of her. I, a certified last responder, came around the corner to see her under her machine with only one leg sticking out. She was screaming her head off. Let me just say I don't react to such things very well. Kurt was off his machine and hauling her's off her in a flash, Makita came up behind me (ran into me actually) and ran up to help. It was nice to have an EMT with us. It turned out that nothing was broken but she was really bruised up, had one rather nasty cut and a whole lot of stiff and soreness. She was very lucky. She wasn't able to ride anymore and I stayed with her most of the time (did sneak off for one more long ride on Friday) and the guys rode a couple times each day.
The trails up there are awesome. There are miles and miles and miles of them. There are hills to climb, mud to conquor and beautiful woods to explore. Kurt lead most of the time and therefor got stuck the most. The campgrounds was very nice (until the hillbilly's showed up on Friday). Our site was right on the water of a really nice small lake (Bass Lake). We fished some and caught, you guested it, some largemouth bass. We brought Al, the canoe, and paddled around some too.
It was a super nice time. I really enjoyed spending time with Kurt and Robin. We had great campfires, nummy food, good conversation and lots of laughs.
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Where are those matching red mud boots I heard so much about. I am a little disapointed
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