We planned a New Years Eve all day ride for weeks and sure enough it rained all weekend hard , we didn’t let it stop us , we started at 9:30 am for the 10:00am LSU kick off , we made 5 rides in the rain , I rode in the rain a lot of times and I am prepared for it , waders and a military issue Gortex rain jacket , it was 72 degrees that night so temp wasn’t a problem , it was really bad , lighting and heavy down pour , the wife and all the other women wouldn’t ride and she was mad at me for going out in such terrible weather , but we had 16 bikes and a UTV that took off into the darkness on the final 12:00 ride , the UTV flips over in a hole and sucked water in the engine and was a dead dog , an Artic Cat tried to pull it back to the black top and couldn’t do it , my buddy has a Can-Am 570 which he just installed 28 inch Outlaw 2’s a couple of rides ago , he pulled that UTV thru every mud hole back there , I was impressed , so he gets back with the 570 and has a new truck which is really high up there , the new tires are much wider and only half the tire hits the ramps as the ramps are not wide enough for the new tires , he slides off the ramp and flipped that Can_Am with all 4 sticking straight up , broke the Can-Am optional snorkel kit off the bike , and sure enough they don’t sell pieces to the snorkel kit and he would have to buy a whole new kit to get the inlet flange and screen , he tells me he welded it with a plastic welder and it is all back together and not bad , I have not seen it yet

so my adventure of the night was having to pee with waders and a rain jacket in the rain which isn’t fun , so I get left behind at a pee stop , that crew I ride with for the most part will leave you , I hit some splits in the trails but couldn’t tell which way they went by the water being bubbled up as it was raining so hard , spent an hour by myself looking for them and never did find them till I got back to the house , I tried calling a few of them a few times and good thing I have a LifeProof case on my phone cause it was wet , so I would ride a bit and turn off the bike and radio and try to hear them running , it was raining so hard I couldn’t hear crap , it was so dark with the lights off you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face , so I got a little worried about getting stuck on the way out and not being able to get thru on the phone and having to walk out , the 300 pulled me thru , that ride was in the top 2 worst weather rides I ever been on

we got 5 inches of rain yesterday , I can only imagine what it is going to be like this weekend coming and they are predicting 40’s for the high temps , should be intersting