Friday, July 13, 2007

Mouth Full of Dirt

Yesterday I went quading with Trevor, Parker Steele, and Dwayne Nielson. We went out to the Waiporous area and headed out towards the mountains. It was awesome! I have gone motorbiking, snowmobiling and quading around the yard, but I have never done anything like this before. We had a blast!!!! I rode behind Parker for a lot of the trail and he loved to kick up as much dirt as he could. I am still trying to get the dirt out of my eyes, mouth and nose.
Left to Right: Parker, Dave, Dwayne, Trevor's quad ( he took the picture ). This was the start of the trail for us. We parked here and then headed off to the mountains.
Parker ripping it up in one of the many streams we had to cross. The kids a maniac!

I think Parker soaked up the most water. He didn't have a dry part on him.

Trev crossing a stream. As you can see below he was soaked from head to toe and still loving ever second of it. Dwayne said that last week this waterfall was raging! The scenery was amazing....mountains, waterfalls, beautiful creaks/rivers. I believe the round trip was around 28km's. Just long enough to ware me out for the evening.
Me crossing one of the many creeks. It was a good way to test out my boots for the West Coast Trail coming up this Friday. The waterproofing worked on the boots, can't say the same for my pants and shirt. This was a river bed that was flowing with 2-3 feet of water the week before. Dwayne had crossed it last week and was totally amazed that there was no water to be found.

I am sure this will be a continuing theme. We all had an amazing time and agreed to come back out and hit some different trails. Good times had by all.

4 comments:

Cara said...

Good to see you are having fun while the fam is away!! That looks awesome and the scenery is amazing!! I am sure that you are getting excited for the WCT, I can't wait to see those pics!! What is your blog for your WCT? I wish you were here, but I am glad to see you are having some "boy" time!!

Anonymous said...

Cara....our blog for the WCT is wct2007.blogspot.com

Ya, quading was awesome! I am dying to go back out again.

Dave

Doug said...

Dave,

The bachelor life is not so bad. Your trip looked awesome.

Good luck on the WCT!

doug

hillary nicole said...

Wow. I really want to go quading right now. Awesome pics!