Today we had a close call, in an otherwise great day of riding.\u00a0 While we were approaching a corner, another rider was going far too fast and couldn’t make it and ended up going straight into the snow off the trail.\u00a0 Fortunately he ended up going behind my wife and her sled and my son and I we’re able to stop.\u00a0 This could have been far worse.<\/p>\n
I’m sharing, because I hope at least one rider who rides like this one did might change their riding without having to have a near miss or an actual accident.\u00a0 Everyone wants to enjoy their ride and also enjoy a ride the following day.\u00a0 So please, ride for the trails and conditions.\u00a0 If you can’t see what is up ahead, slow down.\u00a0 There is a time and place for speed and it is not when you can’t see far ahead.\u00a0 You should always be able to stop for turns or any unexpected hazard that might be in the trail.\u00a0 Just imagine if we had been in the groomer, not on sleds?\u00a0 This would have been a collision for sure.\u00a0 So please, ride within control and speed appropriate for the trail and conditions at all times.<\/p>\n
To the rider, I hope this was a valuable lesson learned.\u00a0 We all do stupid things, we just need not repeat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we had a close call, in an otherwise great day of riding.\u00a0 While we were approaching a corner, another rider was going far too fast and couldn’t make it and ended up going straight into the snow off the trail.\u00a0 Fortunately he ended up going behind my wife and her sled and my son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trail-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n