Um. Ouch.

Once upon a time I thought I knew what four wheeling was.  I thought I had gone four wheeling several times.  I was wrong.

You may think that four wheeling is getting on one of these:

And then gracefully riding down something like this:

All the while laughing, taking pictures, and enjoying the view. 

Wrong.  Wrong wrong wrong. 

This weekend I went four wheeling. "Real" four wheeling. 

The trails looked like this:

and this:

My four wheeler did this:

Leaving me with a bunch of scrapes looking like this:

My four wheeler crashed, we decided to take a "short cut" and go off the trail into an abyss of cliffs and wild animals, we got a flat tire, we got stranded in the middle of nowhere, and we almost died.  I'd call it a successful day of four wheeling!!

But really, it was fun. 

Note to reader:  the pictures of the scary trails and upside down four wheeler aren't mine.  I may or may not have added them for dramatic effect.  The trails really were scary and I really did flip over though. :)