Meet your Chronicler, Old Rider --- the man with the camera. When you are the Chronicler you generally don't get into the pictures very much, so I made sure to get a few shots of our new Dragoneer.
Old Rider also fulfilled this other job (the one we didn't tell him about).
You see, he wasn't supposed to be the Volunteer Road Sacrifice, the friend he was bringing with him was supposed to be the one. But they wuz all tricky on me and the friend was Lancer who the Dragon had already tasted.
(The Dragon always takes a nibble taste of all the riding groups that go up there every year and it is believed that he samples each & every one of us repeat return people eventually given enough time.
We used to have Toymaker who was the Volunteer Road Sacrifice for year after year -- he seemed to like it ....)
Here is the cabin that Lancer and Old Rider stayed in. Two single beds set up in parallel, can sleep 3 with one on the floor.
And here is the new best cabin, Cabin #4 --- it can sleep 4 with 2 on the floor. Also here is a good comparative shot of Dave's Slim Jim vs a standard Savage.
Dave was the best rider of the trip, inexhaustible and always ready to go. I tried to pound on him with an endless supply of hard riding roads, but if you stopped long enough to keep me going it allowed him to regenerate completely -- a friggin' Energizer Bunny he was. MM and Dave ought to go riding together, they would cover a WHOLE BUNCH of ground together as they both only have a "GO" button.
Dave keeps the neatest lines you ever saw in a nasty turn, I'd glance back when I finished a tough curve and Dave would be jest sailing right on through it all sweet & neat & clean like .....
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Dave has been just about fully corrupted now, passing stuff on mountain roads isn't a big deal to him any more. MM is way past corrupted, he can't even ride with a group of Hurleys any more without working his way up through the pack and waving bye bye to the ride captain.
Lancer oversaw my corruption, so I can't say much about him.
Old Rider wants to come back next year and complete his corruption process. He won't have a hurt back to hold him up next year.
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Why do we have the new person to be the Chronicler? Because they are fresh, everything is new to them and they are honest about what they see.