I just had some surgery to repair an injury incurred while mountain biking. Last year, I was doing some gnarly single-track back in the Forest preserve on a little used trail, getting swatted by low hanging brush as I went. It could have been somewhere on the Appalachian Trail or the Rockies, dense as it was. Heading down a hill at a good clip, my earring in my right ear snagged on a limb and OUCH! The earring didn't pull all the way out, just almost. I ended up with a much elongated hole in my ear. Not good. Then, two weeks ago, it happened again and I ended up with a double ear lobe minus one earring. Not exactly the look I wanted to cultivate, so I headed to a plastic surgeon and the repair isn't cheap. The good news is that the bike and my
Leica binocular are all right, even though we all took a spill. From now on, I will be taking my earrings out on the back trail or maybe wear clips. In fact, I strongly recommend to anyone who is back in the brush with a mountain bike to very cautious about anything that can snag and cause you a spill. That's why I got rid of those big bar ends on the handlebars of my mountain bikes, years ago. Guess I still need to trim the load. A girl can't think of everything. Sorry, no pics, since I didn't have a
camera at the time and do you really want a pic of me, anyway?