OMG! I NEVER CHECKED THE GPS!!! So there I was about a mile away from the crash site and it is now dark. I dig out the LED head lamp and back down the road I go. About the time I turn onto the trail it STARTS TO RAIN and not just a light sprinkle. In the dark, In the rain, In the woods with the Beast Of LBL, On a bike and trying to remember where I wrecked – “there was a turn in the trail, a slight incline, a root and a tree.” OH YEAH, THAT NARROWED IT DOWN A LOT!!! I rode back to about the area I thought I must have wrecked, dropped the bike and began walking the trail. Thoroughly soaked by this time, I walk until I got to a creek I remembered crossing before the wreck, so I turned around and went back past the bike to a cut tree I remembered riding past after the wreck and still not spotting the GPS or the crash site. I went back with the bike to the creek and returned back up the trail until I thought I recognized the root and tree that I slowed down for. So I dropped the bike, stepped to the side of the trail, saw some disturbed leaves (where my front tire must have landed) and then I saw the antenna of my RINO sticking out form under the leaves. I picked it up, turned it over, flicked the joystick and the light came on. It suffered a small chunk out of a corner and a wrinkle in the antenna cover but all was fine.
This was my first experience trail riding in the rain, after dark, with creatures that will kill and eat you. In a way I am glad I lost the GPS because I was starting to freak myself out with shadows and sounds in the woods. A little ways before the wreck a limb fell down through the trees behind me and it sounded like something big rushing toward me through the underbrush - THAT WAS A NICE ADRENALIN RUSH.
All in all everything was OK except a few scratches and bruises.
Enough about me - I just wanted to let everyone know that the GPS is OK!"