June has been good

Early in the month C.P came over from Idaho and the last few rides after have been good as well. Hit up Falls Creek with a good group including the Causeys which is always fun. It was kinda wet-ish but traction was pretty good none the less. Diamond Dale put on a dismount show as usual. Funny stuff. The next weekend Sean and I rode the gulch and had a great time on some of the newer trails. can't wait to go back. Summer is finally here so the full on riding will be happening non stop.

Captain Idaho visits Oregon/Washington

Craig has been talking about coming out here to ride some trails with tree's for a few years now. Well. he finally stopped talking and started driving. I met up with him on thursday night in Hood River and we hung out at family man hitting some of the drops and stunts waiting until Flying J showed up so we could get ready for our night ride. Straight to the top on the muddy road. Night time downhilling is real fun. Especially for Craig. New trail at night. No crashes so we got back to camp, burned some books and goofed around until around 1:30 am. Up at 6:30 to do it again and Craig say's " Wow this is kinda scary" about the trail once it was light. Not scary at night I guess. After that we headed over to Syncline on the Washington side for a quick run. Getting hot and dry over there. Back to our place for MTB movies and burritos then up early to head to Falls City and the Black Rock trails. Dirt was perfect and we must have had 17 people riding with us. Craig was stepping it up and hitting some cool drops. Otto had a hard crash and sprained his ankle( but is ok now as I write this) . We hit most of the fun trails and then all the air went out of the day when some girl had a bad crash at Basic training. Landed on her head went out on a back board. not good. Most of our group left when they saw that. Craig and I and a few others did one more run so we could leave with a better memory. Back to my place for homemade pizza and mtb movies. Up early-ish to ride Brad's trail. One run then Craig's Amber alert van got a flat tire. Day over. After getting back to town and getting no good deals on fixing a tire within the day he risked it and headed east. Great weekend with minimal crashes. Makes for a long work week.

Great day in Bend w/ Otto and Bamma Don

Otto and I went over on Fri after work and camped. Great spot by the river. Then met up with Bamma Don at the phills trail area and put in 25 miles. Maybe more my computer was off for a bit. Trails were perfect and so was the weather. We hit WHoops, Phil's, Storm king, COD and a couple others I think. Can't wait to go back and get away from the stupid rain we have here on the west side.

Bad weather

It's been raining and raining the whole weekend weekend but I did manage to get 2 rides in at Black rock last week so I guess all is not lost. Otto even went once and did really well. He rode on a few ladder bridges and worked on his jumping a bit. Had a good group. Tony, Craig, Raul, Jamie, Otto and myself. Raul was stepping it up by hitting some of the new features. Tony and I hit a cool drop the we hadn't done before so that was fun. Jamie and I went back on Mon after work for more and to film a few clips. The sky opened up right when we were leaving. Good time but I just wish this weather would lighten up. I'm ready for some dry trails.

Moab/Fruita/Grand junction Day 7

Headed for home. 17 hours on the road and we got back about 3 am with no problems. Thanks to the guys who gave up a week of work to go ride and thanks to Rollo and Wife for meeting up w/ us. Can't wait to do it again.

Moab/Fruita/Grand junction Day 6

For our 6th day of riding we met up with Rollo at the Rd 18 trails and hit up Zippetty do da and the kessel run. That was great to ride those trails again. Everyone seemed to have a fun time especially the Kessel run. Over and over. Then it was off to the Hot Tomato Cafe, which is an awesome place to eat and hang out. Mountain bikers making food for Mountain bikers. One of the owners is Anne Keller, Famous photographer. Can’t wait to go back there. In the afternoon We 9 minus Jamie and Donny) met up with Mr and Mrs Rollo at the Kokapelli trail head to ride Mary’s loop and Horse Thief bench. The wind was crazy. Probably 4o mph gusts as we rode to the rim and once on the trail it didn’t let up. Made for some interesting riding. Rollo showed us where a guy had fallen the week before and broke his leg or something. Fell like 20 off a cliff onto rock. There was 3 flats on Horse thief but other than that and the wind and me being exhausted it was a great way to end our riding adventure. Good bye to Rollo and back to the camp for fire and goofing off then get ready to go in the morning.