Rapsure Blog

The Bear Lake 2013 ride was hot and injurous and exciting! To start the Bear Lake ride story requires a quick summary. I almost broke my arm, and Kristie seriously injured her shoulder and had to walk the last two miles of the ride because her shoulder wouldn't bear weight. The ride starts at the Right Fork parking area in Logan Canyon. Afterwards we start by riding up Cotton Wood spring and then over to Mud Flats. We then just follow the road from Mud Flats over to Meadowville passing through Temple Flats along the way. Once at Meadowville we just turn left to the north and follow the gravel road out to Bear Lake and then turn around and ride back. Instead of returning by riding down through Cotton Wood spring we took the route of going down Willow Creek which is where the accident that Kristie had.

So we were riding down in the dark when one of Kristie's peddle struck a rock and caused her to go sailing over the handle bars. This caused her to injure her shoulder and made is so we had to walk out of Willow Creek to the parking lot. My accident occured while I was riding up Cotton Wood spring. I was ahead of Kristie and wanted to ride the entire length of the trail without stopping or walking the bike at all. I was almost at the top and I had a series of roots I needed to ride over. Instead of riding over the roots the bike spring loaded and bucked me off causing me to hyper extend my elbow. For a minute I thought I might have broke my arm or some tendon since the arm wasn't working initially but after using my working right arm to move the left arm I got the left arm to start working again. I picked up my water bottle and dusted myself off and finished the climb to watering area for the cattle.