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From the backwoods of Hazard Kentucky
From the backwoods of Hazard Kentucky
Extreme Sports Team
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Annual Sweetheart Ride
The Harlan Co. Ridge Runners held our annual sweetheart ride over the weekend, and even with old man winter still pounding E.Ky and our county we had riders show up from three different states. The first ride going out for the early birds was on Friday and time was more spend clearing trails of fallen trees, brush, and rocks that came about from the ice storms. Still yet the group had a ball in our "Winter Wonderland" returned safe with just 1 minor Boo Boo and ATV break down.
Saturday seen the main ride line up to make the push to the summit minus the one broken ATV we still picked up 4 new riders for the day. It started out with only snow spots on the roads and trails at the Evarts Trail Head then as the higher we climbed we knew why our area is host to the name "Highest Point in Ky" the snow got deeper on the trails and the drifts along side the trails the ice stayed on more often and was like glass in many places. Normal trails we would just zip on up become a shoving match along with winches and straps just to make a few feet then grab on again. After more than 5 times of stopping to beat, pull, bush, winch our way over the snow we finally hit a drift that no man was going to get through unless the County road plow was on the trails this day.
This writer has in fact while providing service to the FHA tower on Big Black,
has got to ride in the "Snow Cat" that stays parked at the station, I fear this
would have been the only machine to make the ride and do it safe The summit we did not reach but the fun we had trying to, the land and trails we showed to our guest riders, the looks on their faces, and we knew it was a good day to be in our Mountains. The day ended with the Ridge Runners providing the sweetheart dinner which the ladies chose to be breakfast this year, served up was hot drinks, 2 typed of eggs, bacon, sausage, breakfast steak, biscuits & Gravy, and desserts no one left hungry and eating time was spent talking of why they come to see us and whey they come back. Then it was time for the most important part of this Saturday night so all just broke up and headed in a fast pace their own way as "Kentucky Basketball" started in about 20 minutes.
Want to see what is up next and what your County Club is doing for our area, then log onto www.ridgerunnersnation.com or email Club Prez
jdjtroutman@windstream.net
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Preston Mclain
ATV Representative, Kentucky Recreational Trails Authority, KRTA
USA Websites
www.usawebs.biz
Kentucky Adventure Tourism Association
www.kataonline.org
Harlan Co. Ridge Runners ATV Club, Inc.
www.ridgerunnersnation.com
Annual Sweetheart Ride
The Harlan Co. Ridge Runners held our annual sweetheart ride over the weekend, and even with old man winter still pounding E.Ky and our county we had riders show up from three different states. The first ride going out for the early birds was on Friday and time was more spend clearing trails of fallen trees, brush, and rocks that came about from the ice storms. Still yet the group had a ball in our "Winter Wonderland" returned safe with just 1 minor Boo Boo and ATV break down.
Saturday seen the main ride line up to make the push to the summit minus the one broken ATV we still picked up 4 new riders for the day. It started out with only snow spots on the roads and trails at the Evarts Trail Head then as the higher we climbed we knew why our area is host to the name "Highest Point in Ky" the snow got deeper on the trails and the drifts along side the trails the ice stayed on more often and was like glass in many places. Normal trails we would just zip on up become a shoving match along with winches and straps just to make a few feet then grab on again. After more than 5 times of stopping to beat, pull, bush, winch our way over the snow we finally hit a drift that no man was going to get through unless the County road plow was on the trails this day.
This writer has in fact while providing service to the FHA tower on Big Black,
has got to ride in the "Snow Cat" that stays parked at the station, I fear this
would have been the only machine to make the ride and do it safe The summit we did not reach but the fun we had trying to, the land and trails we showed to our guest riders, the looks on their faces, and we knew it was a good day to be in our Mountains. The day ended with the Ridge Runners providing the sweetheart dinner which the ladies chose to be breakfast this year, served up was hot drinks, 2 typed of eggs, bacon, sausage, breakfast steak, biscuits & Gravy, and desserts no one left hungry and eating time was spent talking of why they come to see us and whey they come back. Then it was time for the most important part of this Saturday night so all just broke up and headed in a fast pace their own way as "Kentucky Basketball" started in about 20 minutes.
Want to see what is up next and what your County Club is doing for our area, then log onto www.ridgerunnersnation.com or email Club Prez
jdjtroutman@windstream.net
--
Preston Mclain
ATV Representative, Kentucky Recreational Trails Authority, KRTA
USA Websites
www.usawebs.biz
Kentucky Adventure Tourism Association
www.kataonline.org
Harlan Co. Ridge Runners ATV Club, Inc.
www.ridgerunnersnation.com
