Colorado Cottrells: 4th Annual Taylor Park Ride

Time for the 4th Annual Taylor Park Ride RZR Rally!!!! Definitely a highlight of our summer!!!
We were prepared for terrible weather as it was predicted to be in the low 60s and 60% chance of rain. Now, low 60s and sun=great, 70s and rain= great. But the combo together is pretty miserable! I am pleased to announce that we completely lucked out!!! The only time it really downpoured on us was on the way to and during the big dinner! Funniest part about that is as we a re getting drenched and freezing on our evening ride to the dinner (we camped about 12 miles from the main gathering place) we realized, duh, we could have taken the Jeep!!!! Oops!

Just getting down from the pass to our campsite, we got coated in mud. Take a look at our BLACK trailer and our BLUE RZR!

Besides the spectacular scenery, trails and pure beauty, one of the greatest things about the rally is the friendships that we have made over the last three years. We look forward to catching up with people who have a passion just like us. Jim (J to the B) is one of the guys who arranges the whole event and is truly a great guy. He welcomed us again and even let us rearrange our ride schedule so we could go on one with him that was already full (more on that later). We spent some time with Jeff and Kim who we convinced to go to Moab with us earlier in the summer. And then a whole bunch of other people who are just so wonderful. Its amazing how many people remembered us and commented on how big Jadeyn is getting!

Our first ride was run by DesertVet to Napolean Pass. This trail has so many fun spots in it. Rocks, boulders, slick tree roots and awesome views!

Our second ride was with Jim and Mike as the tail man to American Flag Mountain. There was a little something extra going on for this trail. It was the wedding party trail! A couple got married at the summit. Complete with Bride and Groom t-shirts and even wild bird seed to throw at them after the ceremony! Way cool! This is a trail that we will definitely do again. It was our first time and it was awesome!

The group did do an evening ride in honor of one of the members who passed away this summer. It was a good reminder that even though this sport is safer than a 4-wheeler, it still can be dangerous depending on how you drive it. He was killed with a buddy doing a night ride and they hit a tree. His wife came to say hello to everyone. She is a pretty strong woman and very impressive to accept everyone's condolences.

Raffle. We usually have so-so luck when it comes to raffles and this year we really wanted to win some tires! Ours, with over 3200 miles on them, have some pretty pathetic tread! We crossed our fingers and hoped, and ended up winning the next biggest ticket item of the raffle: a complete sound system for the RZR! Sweet!! Its one of those things that would be a lot of fun to have, but we would never have spent the money to buy one! Pretty lucky! Then we also won two LED lights to mount on the front. Nice!

Getting from our campsite to the main dry camp area is always a blast. There is a small section of road that is paved so the OHVs have to take a little side trail around it. You can tell that this community is full of thrill seekers, because just this little side jaunt is whoop-de-whoos over and over again! We catch air on every one!!! Cool!

Even with all the activities and rides, we still had some time to hang around our camp and have some fun! I'm not to coordinated handling a cell phone camera and squirting canned cheese in my boy's mouth!!

We got sooooo dirty!!

Oh, last but not least: the new Polaris XP 1000 came out a few weeks ago so Polaris sponsored our dinner and were nice enough to bring quite a few new 1000s for us to drool over!