My pupils were fully dilated and focusing because the trail was extremely technical. Then the trail got smoother and my grip on the handlebars loosened.
Then tightened. I gasped and hit the brakes. Was I going blind? Suddenly I could not focus because of a bright red overlay to what my eyes were picking up. As I looked around I couldn’t believe my eyes.
“What’s wrong”, she said as she rolled up to me. I was still rubbing my eyes.
“Look at this landscape. The red is so bright and for a while I thought I was having a stroke”, I replied jokingly.
“Ha ha … yea … WOW … It’s beautiful”!
Before that moment the landscape was mostly brown high arid landscape with hints of burnt green. The rocks grey with mid afternoon shadows. Also we were spotting sheep on the hillsides so I was trying the “trick” of focusing while gawking … a tough thing to do.
Once over the saddle between some un-named plateau and Fairview Mountain we bombed down towards Willow Creek. The day already chalk full of adventure. And just like life there are surprises around almost every corner.
As we made the turn towards Willow Creek we were about to drop into an entirely new adventure. Much more exciting then what we encountered. And we didn’t even know it. Yet.
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