In the end, well it turned out to be the end of our off road endeavors for a bit nearly through the end of 2007 as we all seemed to be out swimming with the fishes...for although it appears that everyone stands vertical in splendid form in the pic above, nearly half the offroad riding pack was taken out by mishaps galore in the coming months ~ several on bike at least one in vehicle, and still others in work...

and so it goes as sometimes you are the fisherman, and other times you are the fish on a splendid ESSCAPE ride that brings tall and wide whale tales (tails?) galore...