Fun was had...we still have fun. Thanks to Ma and Pa for shuttling us around. Thanks to James 'Blahblahblah' Perry for leading the intermediate ride. Thanks to Mother Nature for providing perfect weather and mud. Thanks to the Ouachita River Resort for the food and banjo pickin'. Thanks to Ward for not running me over. Thanks to my wife for letting me out for a 3 day weekend. Thanks to OEF for sponsoring the trip. Thanks to my cabinmates for not snoring.
OK, enough
Steve

Fun... there's that word again. Actually, it's very applicable. I had a great time this weekend @ the OEF Womble retreat. It started with a very intense Nite Ride on Friday evening. Charles, James, Adam and I railed some nice single track with some bottom-bracket deep creek crossings :-) 11 miles later we were all smiles. The hardcore ride the next day saw 11 riders going for the 35 mile haul. Even though we didn't have any super serious racer types in the group I can say for sure that the pace wasn't slow... It was cool to see some new faces on this ride, even Schlegel showed up and he did a great job wearing everyone out just before lunch. The BBQ after the ride tasted great and beer and stories flowed at the 'ring of fire'. And the live music was pretty interesting also, just ask Ward and James :-)
Thank you Charles, Mike and Linda for, once again, making this ride weekend happen. You know we really dig what you do for the club.
Marcel.

'Intermediate' Gang before take-off... (JP)

one of many (deep) creek crossings... (SA)

Adam... (JP)

Ouachita River... (SA)

Lon... (JP)

Ron... (JP)

Resting & Repairing... (SA)

Kyle... (JP)

James checking out the Quality of this bridge. Why?... (JP)

Ouachita River... (SA)

Group Pic... (SA)

Shane and Ron... (JP)

Nice Contour Trail... (JP)

Randy... (JP)

Hardcore Group (looking way too serious) on Saturday... (pic by Marcel)

Steve on the Sunday ride... (SA)

Paul Carter drove all the way from Colorado Springs to
Arkansas to ride the Womble. That's Hardcore... (SA)

See Ya Next Year?