John Allison and I went out for a Patrol Saturday July 8 and boy was it wet. But wet in a good way considering how dry it has been all season. It was nice to see puddles all over since we knew the terrain needed the water, but we kept off the Hobbit since we felt we'd do more damage than good on our patrol. We gave a few folks the 'ride through the middle of the puddles' talk to encourage them not to widen our sweet single track up there. But on the RTD bus up from town we ran into Adam Massey, the new host of the Boulder Show and ex-executive director of the Boulder Off-road Alliance (now the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance - our sponsoring organization) and city councilman Shaun McGrath. We rode with them for awhile and managed to help Adam repair his bicycle. John had his camera on hand, so I think we just got our first picture of the patrol actually helping out a trail user. Once Adam becomes a famous TV personality, we'll trade in on his good name to advertise the patrol or something. In the mean time, we'll have to earn our stripes the old fashioned way - one trail user at a time.
