dinner

little nephew andrew

sunday ride

i built some shelves

(schirf cut the wood)

tracks j-walking bandit

racing w/alex

no more ugly stone wall

trying to keep the grass green

waterpark

Wow- haven't posted in forever. Sammi and I hit up the water park on Friday to celebrate the 4th. Raging Waters is only 12 bucks after 4pm!


Sammi would probably kill me if she knew I posted a picture of her in a bikini on the internet...

After two hours of running up stairs in the sun to hit every slide I realized my legs were getting a little tired. Not the best prep for Solitude the next morning but hey- how often do I get to hit water slides. We went to the fireworks in Sugar House later on and got rained on by burning embers. Some guy next to us got really burned and was running around swearing.
Sure enough I was a little tired at Solitude the next day (though I think Deer Valley last weekend and the work week were more to blame than the water park) and was lucky to take the win. BZ is flying right now and was keeping me honest.

So I am mtb. state champ for another year- I need to be sure I get in shape earlier next year so Bart doesn't make me embarrassed to have the title when he crushes me in the early spring!

Otherwise I've been super busy with work and getting settled in to Sammi's house. I managed 11th at the Deer Valley Natioanal last weekend amidst the craziness, some stitches and a bruised rib/pulled back muscle. I just tried to keep a consistent pace the whole time and it ended up paying off. My top 20 call up didn't hurt either. Not sure how that happened!

Did a killer mtb loop with Ty, Derek and Jim in PC today- 3.5 hours with some snow up at shadow lake and a new trail called Fat Lip. Super sweet- it'll be a classic soon.

barbeque time

4th o july

headed up to breakfast at Brighton with Lesha, Linsey, and Carolyn, and then hopped on the bike and headed up Guardsmans to ride crest for the first time this year. SO much fun. trail is in awesome condition and except for lower big water the trail wasn't too crowded. time now for breakfast #2, a nap, and then dinner at Mom's.

new shoes for the epic

schirf's blog

Right on, Schirf is finally blogging again... schirfphoto.blogspot.com. check him out, he takes some pretty sweet pics. He's going to start posting one pic a day for the next month, and I thought I'd follow suit and try to post a pic a day. I figure for the first post I'll start with some pics from a trip to Seattle this past weekend with Lesha.

Mt. Raineer from the plane

chilling on the couch at McGlone's

double bluetooth earpiece sighting!

DV W

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. left the house in a hurry this morning when I got a text from Alex and a call from my Mom that it was snowing in Park City. Figured it would make for some good pictures and a fun race to watch. right on both counts, it was a sweet morning. awesome to watch alex get the win after a couple frustrating 2nd places, and fun to be around the race in general. I'm stoked to try and make it for the rescheduled Solitude race on the 5th. here are a few pics, more to come....
nice work dude.

40s

Since I am moving out this week we drank some big beers at the house last night- yum! Its a good thing you can't get those in Utah. Played on the slackline too- funny, there seems to be a correlation between balance and beer consumption...



Speaking of moving I was planning to get going on some stuff today and haven't done a thing! That will be a project for this week I guess.

I was pretty disappointed with how I felt at the Sundance ICUP yesterday but got over it quickly. I love that course and was hoping for a good race but just didn't have the ups. Rode a decent race but just didn't have a ton of energy and couldn't climb. I was still tired from chasing hard wed. and my legs and back were like "hey dude- give us a break." I hadn't had much of a chance to recover with work and just stuff to do. For some reason I grabbed the lead into the singletrack though but was soon thinking what am I doing here. I tried back off and save some for the end and did start to come around at the start of the last 1/2 lap. I gunned it and think I was making up some time on Mitchell but ran out of real estate. Oh well- felt great wed. so hopefully with a little rest I'll come around... moving is good recovery right?

Ty is off to Sun Valley for his first big round of Patagonia showings- good luck dude!