a valuable lesson

This post is not in chronological order. it's unstuck in time like the infamous billy pilgrim.

Vapour trail in the Crawford trail network is not for beginners. A few of us were ready to ride one late august evening. A few guys from work and someone who had never ridden in the okanagan before. They assured me that they had worked in bike shops before, and i guess i understood this to mean more than it did. It was my first time down the trail, but i thought that since it was in crawford, how hard could it be?? The trail that takes pros about 15 minutes, and joes about 45, took us just over 2 hours. we finished the trail in the dark, and it involved me coaxing our friend to ride and, after that failed miserably, a walk down the remaining 3 kms of the 7km trail. i'm excited to go back and finish the trail in the daylight, but i learned a valuable lesson.... i dont' really know what it was, but i learned it. the hard and slow way. so... if anyone wants to ride vapour with me, lets go, and we'll meet up at the bottom. bring bear spray if you are walking alone though the woods at night, because you might be able to outrun a bear on a bike, but not pushing one.