Altitude
One of many views the Wasatch Classic will yield to its riders. Slowly the high country is melting. The snow is dripping away filing streams and rivers and lakes. The air is warmer, brighter. The mountains greener, friendlier. Summer is at long last breaking the shackles of an over stayed winter. The Rockies are waking up. Each spring blooms […]
Linked
Trails are opening up. Some because of snow melt, others because they are evolving from faint deer paths to legitimate singletrack. And so the options are increasing, multiplying. From singletrack to singletrack, ridge to ridge and canyon to canyon, the world is being linked together. Ripe for the exploring. Trans-Earth anyone?
Spring. Classic.
“The far off horizon impressed me no less. Once again, as in childhood, I saw the soft blue distance inviting me like an open door. And once again I was overcome by the feeling that I was not born for the life of a perpetual stay-at-home among my fellow men in towns and houses, but […]
A Little Help From His Friends
Win! Susan. Win! Fatty.Click to Donate What would you think if I sang out of tune Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song And I’ll try not to sing out of key Oh I get by with a little help from my friends […]
The White Rim, Revisited
Hitting the snooze button… Saturday, the second day of the back to back white rim rides started and ended in much the same way–with me lying in the dirt. I awoke groggy, a little sore. No, I was very sore. My ankle was inexplicably swollen and painful. I was snug and comfortable in the bivy […]
Whispers on the Wind
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there’s nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my heart begin to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears, I will walk alone, by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I […]
Details
As I wandered about the race course on Saturday shooting and rooting, I noticed things that while speeding through the dust on a bike I would have never seen. Some days there is nothing better than hammering until you can’t see, can’t think, can’t hear. Other days, it is nice to simply stand and watch.
The Bicycle
The bicycle is a simple device. Apply force to a crank and a chain, which turns a cog, which turns a wheel. Forward progress. That simple act has been pushed to the brink by cyclists for well over a hundred years. From the very beginning people have used bikes to cross mountains, cross nations, […]
