Finally!

Got a chance to get out with the girls on our dirt bikes!

New Hampshire is the place to ride. There are public trails all over the state of varying degrees of difficulty. All you need is a permit (got one) and an adult (that’s me).

The particular trail we chose is about an hour from home. It’s a 12 mile family friendly ATV trail. We parked about 2/3rds of the way through it and decided to do the shorter portion first. Turns out the shorter portion is the hardest part. It was later described and we quickly found out as having “deep sand”. The girls had never ridden in sand, so it was a challenge at first. Once they figured out that you just needed to go faster, it wasn’t too bad.

After having not ridden for nearly a year, I was pleasantly surprised to have everything work flawlessly.

One addition I decided that we needed was a better source of shade.

To eat lunch, we found an edge over by the bushes for some shade. Not ideal and kind of sketch.

I’ve been contemplating shade options for the car/trailer combo for quite a while. We have a pop-up canopy already, but it’s huge, hard to secure and not something I’m willing to leave around while we go off riding in random places. Another option is getting a rollout shade to mount on the car like this.

Problem is they’re expensive and still require something to mount them to. I’d need a rooftop basket with brackets or make something for my factory rails. Other issue (as you can see in the photo above) is that it could cast the shade in a spot you can’t use. At least with my trailer option, we’re likely to have shade underneath (at noon) or on one of the four open sides.

Hopefully with the 4 day weekend coming up, we’ll get a chance to try it out.

– b