Riding with “Doo Rag” on “Hello Kitty”
Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 3:46PM
I have a buddy I get to ride with whenever he gets a ‘kitchen pass’! But whenever he shows up I am pretty much guaranteed a fun filled and entertaining day on the trail.
So this trip put me on the trail with Rodney or R.J. as we call him, Doo Rag (Darrin) and Barry who lives in a housing complex called Camelot, sounds magical doesn’t it! We started our ride from Barry’s house and rode into the Plumas National forest. Barry or Bear-Meister as I usually call him leads us out on some really cool trails that are awesome single-track after awesome single-track. We negotiate some rather large boulders, narrow tree sections and a creek crossing or two. Then we come to a trail head that Barry tells us is known as “Hello Kitty” and we should go that way and he will meet us at the other end. We assume he was going to set up for pictures or scouting another trail or something. Boy are we dense! But like good little soldiers away we go with big grins on our faces. This is going to be great.
We thrash for the next hour and a half and probably cover all of 3 miles or less! It was Great! Well, I thought so anyway. Doo Rag struggled in a few spots and had to make 2nd attempts and push a couple of times but he survived. Barely!
RJ did great with the exception of one tricky steep off camber downhill. He and the bike swapped places and the bike rode RJ for a bit down the hill. Unfortunately for RJ I was there to capture the comedy on camera. He escaped unscathed, remounted and soldiered on.
When we all arrived at the end of the Hello Kitty trail Barry was nowhere to be found. It seems Barry was not as familiar with the trail as we thought. He couldn’t find us at the other end. So we took a break to eat and drink something, but mostly for Doo Rag to recover since we were now on our own and would have to find our way back.
When we did find our way back and hooked back up with Bear Meister I found out he had done Hello Kitty exactly once! He was also overheard making the statement that it would be the only time! Doo Rag was a bit fatigued and could hardly keep his eyes open so he laid down and took a little siesta so he could make it back to Camelot.
Day 2 started out much better since it was agreed beforehand we would not go anywhere near Hello Kitty. So we had a great 2nd day of riding on some great trails with some very scenic views. I was pretty sure Doo Rag was feeling the effects from day 1 so I thought it would be a good idea to stay close and keep an eye on him. I also made sure I had the camera ready, I didn’t want to miss anything.
Well Doo Rag didn’t disappoint, he had a low speed mishap on an uphill rut that had him lying in the brush with his leg pinned under his bike. Since he was on the downhill side he could not free himself without help. Take a guess on who the “helper” was! Yup, yours truly #33. He calmly waited and said, “go ahead and take your picture then help me get up!”. I was laughing so hard I almost forgot to put my kickstand down. I got the photo as Doo Rag posed and then lifted the bike for him to escape.
We finished day 2 without any more major mishaps and made it back to Camelot, loaded up and headed for home. I couldn’t wait to download the pictures and share our boy’s bonding weekend trip with the mx43 readers.
Anybody want to go riding?
#33
“Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability”
Reader Comments (1)
The "Hello Kitty " name came from John Haaker as he was laying out the trail he heard a noise turned around and thirty feet behind him was one of our mountain Kitty's watching him , he picked up a big branch and tried to look as threating as possible ,he's lucky it worked and Kitty scampered off