The last great ride of the season. Mountain biking is my favorite method of meditation. If I had video, you’d probably wonder how anyone could really meditate while going that fast around the variety of obstacles and challenges: trees, boulders, mud… …natural and man-made ramps… …and abandoned cars. How does someone meditate in the face […]
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End of Summer
It always happens. The cycle repeats. Times change. Seasons come and go. We might wish we could slow it down, or even bring it all to a standstill. We wish we could make the summer stretch on indefinitely. But then… …well, not everyone can live on the equator. Could you imagine trying to smash all […]
Dog Lake
Distracted by nature. That’s not so bad, really, is it? You can be distracted by other things, worse things, unnatural things. The cure for all of those is: get out and ride. Anyway, on this ride, the point was to race the sun. We ended up coming down the mountain in the dark. On a […]
Armstrong, Park City
I’m really not sure if it’s named after Neil or Lance, but the Armstrong trail is a fun one. I actually heard about it from a doctor friend of mine. He kept raving about the trail. Then I tried it (with another doctor friend of mine), and found out he was right to rave. The […]
Reaching Nirvana
There’s a great place on one of my favorite mountain bike trails called Nirvana. Someone set up a pole with ropes coming off of it and they attached about one hundred flags with Tibetan writing on the flags. Many of the flags are worn from the wind at the top of the bare mountain. There […]
