On March 11 2009 I was rideing with 5 other riders on the Glorieta Rowe Mesa in the Santa Fe National Forest. The roads were one lane dirt, lots of ruts caused by 4 wheelers driving on them when they were mud. There was rock, and gravel and sand conditions, perfect for dual sport riding on a 600 class dual sport motorcycle. I was just getting over my first ever flair up of pre-patetallar bursitus and was eager and happy to feel the vim and vigor of both my bike and my left knee. I was having fun, wacking open the gas, breaking the rear wheel loose and sliding around corners when I could get that to happen. I still have a lot to learn about it, but I was feeling good and in control. Comming up to this one corner I gave it some juice picked up speed going in. My memory is that I realized this was a bit too fast of an entry, my usual response is to get on the rear brake and come to a sliding near stop, and take it from there, this time I made the decision that while fast for me, I could ride the outside rut,up against the embankment. I looked where I wanted to go, and shot into the rut thinking something like it felt a little out of control but the bike will get me through this. Unexpectedly the bike was thrown hard up against the embankment, I felt the gear doing its job of protecting my leg, unaware that it was also protecting my arm and shoulder as my light weight windbreaker was being shredded between the bank and body armor under it. I guess since it felt so out of control I brought it to a stop before exiting back onto the road, and immediatly looked down at my foot and knew from what I saw that I just broke my leg. According to Horst who was right behind me my upper body caught and twisted around backward while my right foot was traped between the bike and embankment. That happened so fast I have no memory of it, my impression is that I stayed on the bars till I stoped it. When I came to a stop the bike and I were up against the embankment, Horst came and took the bike away, I was focused on my leg at that point. The leading question was how bad was it, I knew I would not be riding out with the foot going off at that Buster Keaton little tramp angle but was this one of those really horrible broken bone stories with bone sticking out and blood everywhere? While getting my helmet off, and calling out to everyone that I had broken my leg, I was getting ready to take the boot off, by the time I got there, Dr. Leonard Thatch had gotten off his bike and was calmly ready to do his thing. We got the boot and armor off, pulled the pant leg up and could see that the skin was bulging but not punctured, I layed down and he put traction on it got it elevated and we worked on geting it supported and positioned so that it stopped hurting. Happily I had body armor, as the plastic spine protector made a handy insulated bed to lay on. My cold weather gear that I had been shedding along the way and stowing in the saddle bags came out, Leonard at one point put his helmet and gloves on as his jacket was somewhere in my cocoon. It took about an hour for two of the guys to go and get Leonard/s Landcruiser, the idea being that his trailer hitch carrier that he used to haul his KTM 530 could be used to haul my Husqvarna te 610, But when the guys got back, they realized it would be just as well for someone to ride all the bikes out, Leonard would drive me in the Landcruiser. The ride out was uneventful, getting in was almost painless, only after getting out on the paved road did we have to stop to support the foot, I tried rotating with it, it ended up on the floor, but since we were done with the rough stuff I figured might as well have em stop and readjust. Leonard took me to his Clinic he works at, Ultimed, they are experts with this stuff having offices in Taos and Eagles Nest and take care of this kind of ski injury all the time. They quickly determined that it would need surgery, hooked me up with an ortho surgeon, Leonard took me to his office, they set me up with the hospital for the operation the next morning, which went well, and I am now home with a three month lay off ahead of me.