04/15/07-post canyon

today's weather and trail conditions were awesome! temperature was probably around seventy, trails were tacky and just a few spots with any mud. i didn't take my camera on this ride, but i'm sure andy or dirk will be posting pictures on the trailhead site soon so i can upload them from there.

no big crashes on today's ride. bernie went down a few times...par for the course, dirk, andy and zach hairdo went down on small crashes. jason bailed on the big booter on the left line of chorus and slid down the landing on his butt. i don't think i hit anything new this ride, i was just trying to get used to the new bike. i liked it very much, it peddled well and the front fork handled everything i threw at it. it's the first air fork i've ever ridden and i'm liking it! right now the norco is handling much better than my demo 8. perhaps i have to do some tuning to get that thing running right? until next time.

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04/07/07-post canyon

went to post this morning. rode out with j-word and ross. his truck was super small so i rode with darren and ryan from troutdale out to hood river. conditions were very nice on the trail the first part of the day. chorus jumps were very nice...i just could not get the pinch for the no handers....frustrating! seemed that the lower we got on the mountain that the worse the trails were getting.

weird another one of those weeks were it is sunny and nice all during the work week when there is no riding going on, then the weekend and rain??? summer is coming. no big wrecks on this ride, darren just had a few problems with the teeter totter on 8 track and robholio crashed after hitting the round the tree drop on chorus. seemed that he was a bit shaken up, but he found a 20 dollar bill on chorus, so we made him buy a pitcher of beer at andrews pizza in hood river after the ride. summer is coming soon.

03/31/07-post canyon

ross and i rode post yesterday. on the drive out the weather was looking rough. it was the usual rain until cascade locks and then the sky opens up.

we got there around nine and only johnny thunder was there. a couple minutes later frisco aaron arrived and we thought that the four of us should just head up to the top and the other could meet up with us. but like usual, about a million other people showed up and we started piling into two trucks. probably close to 15 of us with bikes in two trucks...it was a packed and cold ride to the top. trail conditions were awesome. tacky and a bit more moisture around the trails than there was on the ride there a few weeks ago.

there were a bunch of new stunts on chorus and lower gp, some were finished and a couple guys in our group hit them. a guy in another group that wasn't riding with us broke his leg on the new stunt jump before the loop around the tree stunt on chorus. shitty! for the most part it seems that the newest stunts up there don't have a lot of flow. lots of skinnies....weird, they wrecked a lot of my favorite stunts.

that's about it.