RR: Mt.Creek - Diablo Freeride Park

"Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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We headed to Vernon, NJ to check out the Diablo Freeride Park at Mt.

Creek.

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It was our first pure DH trip this year and it was the closest DH riding

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us. You couldn't have asked for better weather conditions. It was hot, but not too hot. The park
just re-opened earlier this year:

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We hit the easier DH runs and had a look at some of the more advanced and technical runs. I can
only describe the place with one word: WHOA!

I am talking nasty large boulders and rocks. Huge dropoffs. Sheer speed pointing downwards. Big
logs. Sections that make you want to vomit and

come

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back for more because they were so sick.

We met up with Jerome and JimBones at the top of our first run. They are regulars to Diablo so
they gave us some advice and pointers on the place.

We

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obviously avoided the Double Black Diamond sections. That was for experts only. We didn't feel
like being carted off the mountain on spinal boards

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helicopter.

We did the first several runs slowly, it gave us time to check out the

place

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and all the lines. We also observed from the ski lift.

The place definitely has a tremendously large fun factor. Each run created

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new adrenaline rush. We donned our complete body armour and full faced helmets. Anybody who rides
this place without body armour and full faced helmets is crazy. We suffered no injuries, thank
goodness.

I did take a rather nice spill though. I was coming down a boulder section when my front wheel got
lodged in a couple of rocks, the bike spit me over the bars. I did a beautiful imitation of
superman in the air for a couple

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feet, arms and legs spread out and I landed on my chest and slid on the boulder. The damage: a
superficial crack in my chest protector and a

ripped

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jersey. I was fine. The body armour did its job or I would have wound up with a few broken ribs.

On our second to last run, we were on the ski lift on our way up and we heard a blood curdling
scream coming from the woods. Someone had crashed. Someone had crashed badly. It sounded serious
and it sounded like he might have been alone in there. I got sick to my stomach. He just kept on
screaming in tremendous pain. Whatever had happened to him, was serious.

We

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tried to locate where it was coming from. We pinpointed the location in

the

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woods although we couldn't see him and made note of the post number (the

ski

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lift posts are numbered) in order to advise the employee at the top of the lift. We got to the top
of the lift and Jim immediately advised the

employee

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of the situation. He immediately called for assistance and the race was on to locate the fallen
rider. We let them do their job and we did one final run.

We were in a little bit of a shock after that but we completed our final

run

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of the day with our fastest time out of all our runs. We did 7 runs. It

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a blast. We'll be going back soon for more...

Ohhhh...Ohhhh...I wanna go too! Sounds great 'cept for that whole 'screaming in tremendous pain'
part. Hope he's ok.

Mike

"Michael Dart" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Ohhhh...Ohhhh...I wanna go too! Sounds great 'cept for that whole 'screaming in tremendous pain'
part. Hope he's ok.

We never found out what happened to the guy, I think they were still trying to bring him down from
the mountain by the time we left.

You're welcome to join us next time we go. We are planning another day trip there sometime in late
August. We'll be tackling the tougher stuff next time :-)

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

"Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Michael Dart" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Ohhhh...Ohhhh...I wanna go too! Sounds great 'cept for that whole 'screaming in tremendous pain'
part. Hope he's ok.

We never found out what happened to the guy, I think they were still trying to bring him down from
the mountain by the time we left.

You're welcome to join us next time we go. We are planning another day trip there sometime in late
August. We'll be tackling the tougher stuff next time :-)

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

That'd be cool. I might be able to work out something for the 23rd-24th.

Mike