{"id":14616,"date":"2026-05-13T00:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:40:29","slug":"wednesday-may-13th-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/05\/13\/wednesday-may-13th-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday May 13th\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14636\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So here we are already in the middle of May &#8211; Time for the Outlaw Trial and also a time when we worry about the fire season.!! &#8211; Therefore, a note for anybody attending the Trial this weekend in the Shuswap, please be careful with discarded cigarettes etc. &#8211; ( Ross will be walking around with a big stick!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather forecast is for showers pretty much all through the long weekend, but as I told katy who was just here picking up Opti Oil &#8211; it&#8217;s only going to rain on the logs!!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the last quiz was young Scots lad Jamie Galloway on the TRS &#8211; he finished in 14th place last week. &#8211; Correct answers from Stan, Brett, Pete Varey and Roger Boothroyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today another from the Scottish &#8211; who is this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/warren-Laugesen-NZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/warren-Laugesen-NZ.jpg 526w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/warren-Laugesen-NZ-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/warren-Laugesen-NZ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belated birthday greetings to our new trials enthusiast Gerry Phillips. who has now circled the sun about 67 times!! ( might not have the number quite correct, but close) &#8211; here he is practicing for the upcoming Outlaw Trial &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gerry-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gerry-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gerry-5-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other people celebrating birthdays today are Neil Sturgeon who posts all those great pics on Face book, and also Ryan Young still putting his great Trials schools on -nice to see him now riding a TRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are looking for the history of the Scottish, or any other neat Trials stories &#8211; click onto this website by John Moffat &#8211; yes we have one of Big John&#8217;s Trials Guru caps  ( the first of three in Canada) That is what you see me wearing up top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Trials-Guru-site.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Trials-Guru-site.jpg 424w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Trials-Guru-site-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure how to get to the Outlaw Trial this weekend? head for Scotch Creek and follow that road until you see the big sign Magna Bay &#8211; Ross will have it sign posted on the right side turn.!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlaw-Trial-26-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlaw-Trial-26-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlaw-Trial-26-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===============================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==================================== So here we are already in the middle of May &#8211; Time for the Outlaw Trial and also a time when we worry about the fire season.!! &#8211; Therefore, a note for anybody attending the Trial this weekend in the Shuswap, please be careful with discarded cigarettes etc. &#8211; ( Ross will be walking&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/05\/13\/wednesday-may-13th-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday May 13th\/26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14645,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions\/14645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}