Side by Side Action in Buena Vista

Today we only had one thing planned, taking a Polaris RZR out on some trails. Unfortunately, the rental place and the trails were pretty far away. We rented them from the same place we are going to rent a Jeep on Saturday, BV Jeeps in Buena Vista. So after the long trip over there, we signed in, got a couple helmets and some instruction on the different routes, and followed the trailer carrying of machine to the trail.

We loaded our gear in the back of the RZR and we were off. Kacie drove it first, looking hardcore with her white helmet, dust mask and shades.

We went back and forth driving around, going back and forth a couple times throughout the afternoon. As always, stopping wherever there was a cool photo opportunity.

These things are basically little cars made for spirited driving over off road trails and they’re awesome. The thing has plenty of power, I never got to totally floor it. They handle well and are automatic, or CVT, which just means there’s one gear. It does have high and low gear, but low is really low with only a 10 mph top speed. Low is pretty much for crawling up steep hills and rocks, I only used once. Again, I have no idea how fast it would go, but the speedometer went up to 100. I doubt it, but maybe close, it got up to 30 in only a few seconds.

We drove it all around the trail system for about 4 hours before we headed back to where we were to meet the trailer. We got back with about 20 minutes left, so I had to just drive it up and down the mountain before we left.

Back to our long drive home. It wasn’t that bad, and once we got home we had pulled pork with mac and chesse we had got at the grocery the day before.

We have exploring the Black Canyon tomorrow. Then a third night at the Crawford house, which is the only one we are staying 3 nights in.