On May 16th, Tour De Bloom 09 rolled out of the Mary’s Loop parking lot with 20 guest riders, two massage therapists, a five-man trail crew, expert sag support from Worldwide Expeditions and, as always, an abundance of beer.
A few weeks ago COPMOBA threw itself a birthday bash that was a lot of fun and created a bunch of new memories!
Every now and then, I catch myself cussing all trail users, including those “make your own trail” mountain bikers, but usually I save most of my disdain for the ATVers out there because they seem drawn to crytobiotic soil like a magnet, can’t seem to walk to an overlook no matter how close it is to the trail, and because muddy trails seem like a good excuse to make a new trail through the trees. Well guess what….I get to eat my words after our dealings with a family of ATVers during this year’s Tour de Bloom. My “awakening” happened when one of our Tour de Bloom riders suffered a fall that resulted in a potentially life threatening femoral fracture in an area of southeastern Utah about as far from help as you could get.