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I had planned to go to Busco last weekend, and I am so glad I had to wait until today. All the rain and snow we got last week flooded the river and turned it into an AATV dream park. A third of the park was still covered in water, fully obscuring the trails in many areas.
I got there at 1pm, choking on the dust from hundreds of ATVs and UTVs riding around the beach areas. I was wondering why so many of them had absolutely no mud on them whatsoever, even some highly modified ones.
I quickly found out as I reached the pole line. It was completely flooded with no tracks in or out. Of course, I just swam right in.
On the other side, near the river, very few patches of trail were not submerged. In fact, there were some places where I wasn't sure where to go, even though I was familiar with this section. I could touch bottom in about 2/3rds of the riding, but I also had to swim a lot just to get anywhere at all. I guess that's why even the big quads hadn't made a single track in those hundreds of acres.
I started to get nervous about being surrounded by so much water without another rider as back-up, so I headed to where I thought I'd find the brave riders on the big quads. The third photo shows the trail you have to take to get to the 50/50 hole. The trail itself was now a 100% fail hole. Unless you could float. You can see a guy sunk to his armpits in the middle of the water. He ended up taking some photos of me with his camera swimming across where he was just standing.
I did find some dry trail and a LOT of quads to ride with, eventually. In fact, they took me to a section of the park I hadn't been before. It was very, very tight with a lot of off-camber whoops and turns. It was extremely challenging to manage, but I had fun. I'd like to see how a MuddOx would do in that section. <g> Sorry, but I didn't get any photos of those trails, but I'm sure we'll get video in a few weeks.
Anyway, here's a teaser for all of you heading out there in April. I bet it won't be anything like it by then, but there's always hoping for some April showers to flood it out again.
I got there at 1pm, choking on the dust from hundreds of ATVs and UTVs riding around the beach areas. I was wondering why so many of them had absolutely no mud on them whatsoever, even some highly modified ones.
I quickly found out as I reached the pole line. It was completely flooded with no tracks in or out. Of course, I just swam right in.
On the other side, near the river, very few patches of trail were not submerged. In fact, there were some places where I wasn't sure where to go, even though I was familiar with this section. I could touch bottom in about 2/3rds of the riding, but I also had to swim a lot just to get anywhere at all. I guess that's why even the big quads hadn't made a single track in those hundreds of acres.
I started to get nervous about being surrounded by so much water without another rider as back-up, so I headed to where I thought I'd find the brave riders on the big quads. The third photo shows the trail you have to take to get to the 50/50 hole. The trail itself was now a 100% fail hole. Unless you could float. You can see a guy sunk to his armpits in the middle of the water. He ended up taking some photos of me with his camera swimming across where he was just standing.
I did find some dry trail and a LOT of quads to ride with, eventually. In fact, they took me to a section of the park I hadn't been before. It was very, very tight with a lot of off-camber whoops and turns. It was extremely challenging to manage, but I had fun. I'd like to see how a MuddOx would do in that section. <g> Sorry, but I didn't get any photos of those trails, but I'm sure we'll get video in a few weeks.
Anyway, here's a teaser for all of you heading out there in April. I bet it won't be anything like it by then, but there's always hoping for some April showers to flood it out again.
I hope some of that water hangs around for us in April. That looks like fun. Thanks for the pictures and the update.
robbie
if it don't float with out you getting wet . don't bring it ! 
R.I.P sage rogers 4 11 09 .
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