hicky bobbin'

December 30, 2009
Kingfish, "Hi Jim, what are you doing tomorrow."
Jim, "Just planning on a regular day where I let my children down as their father."
Kingfish, "Same here. But I wondered if my grandchildren would like to go sledding behind my four wheeler. I'll wear my CarHart overalls with fish blood on them so we can be truly redneck."
Jim, "That sounds pretty good. My kids haven't had much sleep. Do you think we can start out really fun and then push things to the limit so most of them want to cry or hit something by the time we are done?"
Kingfish, "Oh, sure. We can get Slurpees too."
(Romney - I don't want to go- I only want to play batman! Jim- you can bring your cousin. Romney- Okay, fine.)
Jim, "Sounds great. We're in. I'll get their helmets ready."

We went up to Little Dell where the road is closed going over East Canyon. There were a lot of other people out enjoying a hike or a nice cross country ski in the natural outdoors away from the city pollution. ha ha - joke's on them since we brought noise and air pollution with us!

I would say the whole trip was a raging success save one thing.
Success because:
There was a great deal of laughter and revelry.
I was the only one that ever fell off a sled and was in mortal danger.
We made a key adjustment to the sleds after my near death by sled impaling.
There was more laughter and revelry.
Turns out you can go really fast behind a four wheeler even when pulling 3 sleds.
An ice fishing sled is like a large floating boat on a sea of powdery snow.
A small sledding sled is a roller-coaster of insanity on the waves of a storm-filled ocean of snow.
We didn't get stuck so bad that we had to walk back to the car.
When Lainey fell (or jumped depending on the version you hear) from one crazy sled to another she ended up looking like a clam and laughing and didn't cry at all.
By the time we were done Lainey could do nothing but cry because she was so tired.

Less than successful because:
I learned that my children have no sense of self-preservation. I wonder where this will lead us next?

Helmet cam shot:


From the ATV shot: