Finally at the end of the trail and holding still by the roadside, a road bike goes buzzing by as Alton checks the water level in his boots not to mention the level of knobs left on his tyres that changed the ability of his bike...

alas, quite a smarting ride it was, but as the next in sequence shows, not nearly as smarting as the grand finale...

click on the thumbnails below to see the next image in sequence, going from left to right, row by row...