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 …
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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 …
Ambassadors of Mountain Biking
I like writing. But I really love mountain biking. So my two favorite things to do are words that sound the same. Writing. Riding. If there’s no context, in the spoken word, you might get those two mixed up. My most recent ride took me up Rock-A-Billy and down Ridge Line. These are just trail …
Mountain Crest Trail
My latest adventure involved, on average, 900 meters (3,000 feet) of elevation gain, topping out at about 2,900 meters above sea level. I average this one out, because the signal isn’t great up there. We know the highest peak in the mountain range in that area is a little over 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) above …
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