Jamie's Biking Blog-Let's go ride!: 07/04 and 07/05 Post Canyon

There have been a few rides that i've done since the Whistler ride and yep...no pictures. too busy riding and not snapping any pics. But we did go to Post and work on some shots for the upcoming video.

I picked up hack and raul around four o'clock and headed out to post. When we arrrived in post, Todd McCarthy was in some beer garden in town and had been drinking. who knows how many, but he was in great spirits. We headed up and did a run down the technical rocky trail. We experimented with the boner cam.

I think everybody has to do a bit of riding with this thing on to get used to it. Raul had the camera yank down on his helmet when he was doing a run and it squished his goggles down to his mouth...made for some good footage.

JR brought his beagle/lab dog. this guy eats cheese like a champ. He was giving us hell the entire time. i don't think he ever did poop in the truck like we were hoping??

we did a bunch of filming right here near the top of the mountain. the clouds/fog were very sweet looking with the occasional break where you could see all the way down to the hood river bridge.

We did a couple late night runs from the campsite up top down to the bottom of chorus. Todd did his runs with no lights, trying to stay between two people that had lights or riding over the person with lights that crashed in front of him. Big time crazy points to todd for doing the hardest trail on the mountain in the dark, after drinking beer with no lights!!! I was my usual ride better when i can't see where hack is taking me. I cleaned the entire line in the dark with no hesitation. i guess i should only ride rocky steep trails when i can't see what i'm riding.

none of us remembered to bring cooking utensils, but i did have my samurai training

saturday morning we got up and did the donut breakfast thanks to raul. he is the most prepared camper i've ever seen...except for the spatula of which i used one of the trail building machetes from the maing bus. see above image. while cooking we heckled as many people via cell phone that we could remember numbers of.

We headed down from the campsite to meet with all the people that were going to show up for the ride. We got to family man right at nine and not a sole was there. no craig, no kevin, no terry, no jim not even robholio? we had no choice but to wait. finally about ten o'clock jim showed up and shortly after terry showed up. i'm not sure if it was the rain back in town that scared everybody away, but they missed some very nice conditions on the trails.