Bedrock & Paradox

Completed after a full afternoon and evening of work.  Very pleased, details tomorrow. (Post 800!)

First complete rough draft of a major final paper is DONE.  Still much, much editing to be done I’m certain, but it’s likely the most theoretically nuanced of the work I’ll do in the next five weeks, and it feels very good to have it all down and outside my head.   Almost to B&P…

And it was good. The lower stuff on Blue Mountain is in excellent shape, tacky and fun.  It was worth the drive over in traffic.

Making the SuperComps work for me, which largely means making them a bit more tour friendly.  I may eventually decide I like big boots, but I doubt it, and am still in the learning process. First, remove the ratcheting straps over the instep by dremeling out the rivets, and replacing them with bolts and some…

I must confess that I’ve never followed the spot feeds for races before, but this morning the AZT page has been up since I woke.  A nice little diversion.  Thanks Scott. Looks like Kurt and Chris are enjoying a fun stretch of singletrack right now.  Weather could be a bit interesting up there. I actually…

It’s good to be back.

The Man finished the AZt, at last! I’m proud to know you, Chad. PS: Ditto for all the AZT racers getting psyched on the drive as I write.  Should be an entertaining weekend.  Watch out for those rocks, guys!

Of Utah stuff.  Time to march forward into the maw of the semester with both eyes open and firmly fixed. Slot of Shimrock.  Best of the worst, as it seem impossible most days to do anything approaching an accurate photographic evocation of such a place. Bryce. Rain approaching over Zion. I also completed my trekking…

After a weekend of riding in Moab, and a Monday prep-ing, working, skiing, and driving, and a Tuesday bailing on my backpack, I drove to North Wash and made a fire of nice dry, dead cottonwood branches on a windy night. The whole trip weather seemed to be about a month behind what it should…

La Sal meadow skipping. Big country on the Red Benches. Old dirt. The very small. The very big. More to come.