Jake picked me up at eight and we headed to Post Canyon. Weather was perfect...hardly a cloud in the sky. We picked up Andy on the way in. Hack, Fatlarry, Skinny April and chip were waiting our arrival out at post.
we headed out in andy's little honda since it was the only rig that we had that could carry more than two bikes. the maing bus has some bad vibration in the rear end...and not in the good way that is keeping it from carrying us to the trails.
I always love checking out the highway on the washington side while driving out to the gorge. i also want to get some good shots of the old rail road tressel that is on the washington side. hack has actually got some good images of the gorge off the bridge shown in this picture.
we headed up to the top of the mountain the check out the upcoming super d race course that is happening next weekend. a few of us we interested in racing it, but after riding it today....none of us are going to race it. today's ride was punishment enough!
when we got up to the top of the mountain, we ran into the gi joe's crew. i don't think i had seem DH Ian for over a year. I haven't been riding in Whistler enough i guess?
this was a shot from the top middle part of the super d course....holy moly it was hot! after finishing out the super d course, we piled into the back of chips truck
this picture was just taken a few minutes before we were pulled over by the local police and lectured about how dangerous it was to ride in the back of a truck. so we did the immigrant thing and piled all sevem of us into the cab that is supposed to only hold five. i think fat larry's leg is still numb.
On out second run we split up...most of the guys went down the dh trail and I...stupidly by myself went down the jump line. I had a small crash on the upper part of chorus. roots hurt when you try and stop yourself by slamming your knee and ankle into them while your bike falls out from under you. my leg is killing me as i sit here typing this.
despite the crash, i was still feeling pretty good. hack got a few shots of me trying to do a few more tricks.
The one footer was fun and actually pretty easy. i don't remember ever trying a one footer over this jump. This one went o.k. so i tried to get better extension on the 3 star...hack got this shot.
not bad, but i have to get that hand extended out better. darren should be back riding soon and he is always good influence to push me learning tricks.
on our first run up top, chip pointed out a small forest fire towards mt. adams. by the end of the day this sucker was huge. we saw it grow from a little fire that we could barely see any smoke....to a fire that had a plume of smoke probably 12,000 feet high! this shot was taken from just outside troutdale looking back towards hood river and you can see the smoke from a long ways away. crazy. i hope that fire is under control by now!
andy's little maing bus did a great job getting us to the the top of the hill and back.
jake was very tired.
andy was tired before we left the trails!
It was another epic day of riding in Hood River. I sure hope that everybody has something they do that is this much fun. I can't wait to get back!
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The Unforgetable fire!
that fire is still huge!
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