Friday after work, I went to Marshall Canyon in La Verne. I have to say it was really fun. We started around 5:30pm from Oak Mesa park off of wheeler. We started by the creek, crossed it a couple of times, mostly just roller coasting water crossings. Then there was a somewhat tough climb, followed by another long climb, then another climb. After ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, I was on the saddle of Brown Mountain, after a long climb of 1259'. I was chatting with my buddy about the climb, and whatnot, when we see a guy jamming up the fire road ( Read more... )

A little bit of my Bonus money went to some Bike gear.

I got myself a pair of SixSixOne Expert Shoes, A set of Shimano SPD Pedals and some cool socks with a skull on them.

I tried out my new gear at Claremont Hills Wilderness Park on Sunday... Good ride, though I didn't see any deer this time ( Read more... )

Back in may or June, I took Jay and Karl to Claremont hills wilderness park. We rode up Burbank Canyon, well, tried to anyways. About halfway up, Jay was pushing his bike, and I was puking. We decided to turn back ( Read more... )

Ok, so on Friday, a bunch of my coworkers took the day off, and we headed to Big Bear to meet some of our Atlanta counterparts for a day on the slopes. After about 5 hours of riding, a group of us ended up on a double black diamond run. I, having been snowboarding for 8 years now, feel most comfortable in the terrain park, where I can hit jumps and ( Read more... )

I made a page with maps and elevation profiles of the bike rides I've been on recently... Topo! Is a pretty cool program

http://alop.sys.pas.earthlink.net/maps.html

Last night I took the first ride of the 2005/2006 snowboarding season ( Read more... )

The good news is, the sports doctor said my knees should be ok in time for the 05/06 snow season ( Read more... )

7:50 am - Arrive at REI, notice I'm the only one without a Jersey ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, I've been back since sunday, that's still not enough time to recover.
I worked two days last week, which was nice. Thursday, we left for vegas, nice uneventful drive, traffic wasn't bad. Cass actually stitched a bowling shirt on the way there

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