camped at RPR, this weekend. hadn't been in a while. they got a bunch of big Enduro stuff out there now. what wasn't changed is getting lost and turned around a bunch of times.
anyway, there's a new jump on the flow track that has some serious consequences. first guy cleared it. second guy cased the fuckout of it, bending his big ring so bad we just broke it off with some pliers to make the bike rideable. but before we could work on that, he had to unpack a 1/2" of his face from between the lense and the frame of his glasses from bouncing high side into the landing zone. pic below was after he'd been working on it a while.
this is how I ended up.
I was a little ways behind Two, trying to get enough speed to hit it proper, judging only by the size of the ramp, not having seen it before, but figuring it to be reasonably safe, regardless. I was about two bike lengths from the lip when I saw Two laid out in the LZ, slammed on the brakes, and endoed hard into the boulders in the gap. somehow, all I did was jam my thumb, probably at about the same spot Two hit on the lip of the landing ramp. only time in my life I wished I had gripshift.
below is what you're supposed to do. stills from a phone video of One going back up and hitting it again while Two worked on his bike (he also flatted in the crash).
then we went back up to the top, puttered around taking in the view from Decision Point, then hit Super D and got lost a few times trying to ride as much single-track as possible back towards camp.
good times.