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Riding in the foothills

One of the things I really like doing is hopping on the bikes and running up the street to the PG/AF foothills. For the most part it's wide dirt trails and access roads but if you get closer to American Fork and clime a little, you can get in to some pretty technical single track riding. Today Darren Krutzinger and I spent a couple hours exploring some very tight deer paths and had a great time.

We also hit some massive mud puddles and got pretty soaked and dirty. At one point Darren didn't see a set of triple puddles coming up right before a turn and launched out of the third puddle (at full speed) down a pretty steep hillside. After separating early, both he and his bike tumbled about 50 feet before coming to a stop. Luckily, Darren was find and the bike was just a little tweaked.

Here they are all cleaned up after a hard day at work (Yamaha YZF426):