An 18-year-old Sweet Home man died Friday afternoon when his all-terrain vehicle left the road and hit a tree in the forest near Sweet Home.
At approximately 4 p.m., Ryan David Hocking was riding a Polaris four-wheeled ATV on Cascade Timber Consulting property on the Ames Creek Main Line, a gravel logging road. Travis Smith, 20, of Sweet Home was riding with Hocking on another ATV.
The outing was Hocking’s first time riding in that…