{"id":16786,"date":"2026-08-23T06:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=16786"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:02:35","slug":"sunday-august-23rd-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/08\/23\/sunday-august-23rd-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday August 23rd\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16790\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The best news today &#8211; The big storm last night &#8211; the rain hammered down for quite sometime &#8211; we just hope any lightning fires got jumped on quickly <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have chatted a lot about Summerland lately because of the fires &#8211; and our long history of Outlaw Trials run at that location &#8211; We have also mentioned the section that we called Devil&#8217;s Staircase &#8211; which Pete and myself spent many hours clearing before that first event &#8211; here is a shot I took that first day we found it, and I explained to Pete that we needed to cut down those two trees, and do a lot of grooming.  &#8211; I wonder what that area will look like now after the fire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Heartbreak-as-it-was.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16787\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Heartbreak-as-it-was.jpg 640w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Heartbreak-as-it-was-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a shot of Jacek giving Todd Nordin a hand at the top of the section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Jacek-helps-Toddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Jacek-helps-Toddy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Jacek-helps-Toddy-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; Toni Bou in 1995, when he was riding for Beta. &#8211; Again it was Roger who got in first, then Brett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today &#8211; who is this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Cutard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Cutard.jpg 235w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Cutard-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned yesterday the Ymir trial has had to be cancelled for the long weekend due to the fire restrictions &#8211;  a shame, but a wise decision &#8211; here is a neat pic from a previous event at that great location. &#8211; think that&#8217;s Pete but not totally sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ymir-Pete.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ymir-Pete.jpg 526w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ymir-Pete-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday our old friend Doug Nimmo stopped by to pick up some parts for his new Beta Xtrainer &#8211; Doug lives in Alberta, but has a place in Fintry , so was out to check on things after the fire, and to go buy a new fridge.. Doug used to ride a lot of our Trials events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came across this intro from an old Program when we had the Kelowna Trials club &#8211; the idea of Paul Grundy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"416\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Welcome-to-the-etc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Welcome-to-the-etc.jpg 416w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Welcome-to-the-etc-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best news today &#8211; The big storm last night &#8211; the rain hammered down for quite sometime &#8211; we just hope any lightning fires got jumped on quickly We have chatted a lot about Summerland lately because of the fires &#8211; and our long history of Outlaw Trials run at that location &#8211; We&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/08\/23\/sunday-august-23rd-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday August 23rd\/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\/16786"}],"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=16786"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16805,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions\/16805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}