The Last Few Weeks

Its been a while, and ive been busy, but mostly lazy. Heres what happened the last few weeks. We headed out for the 16 or so hour drive to Angel Fire, New Mexico. Tuesday morning I headed out for the trip, but first I stopped by Sanjays house to get a hair cut, then up to Brad Oien's house, He was amped as ever and ready to yell, scream, and be as hyper as possible for the next 20 hours. Then it was off to alfs, and Grizs Place, where we loaded our Truck quite a bit. Southern California is quite boring, and even more boring when you go this far south, nothing but desert and NASCAR burgers. About 24 hours later for me, we were finally in Angel Fire, everyone was Stoked to be there.

It rained quite a bit that night, but we woke to sunny skies, Snow, and Mud. Later in the night a few of us played around on a makeshift slalom track.

Thursday brought more rain, and I got stuck in the middle of it. No photos for Thursday

Friday was back to great weather. I only hiked the lower part of the course, mainly where to Road gap was. There are great Views up in these mountains. Later was 4x where Powell won.

Well, I think I got the dates screwed up, but Sunday was more Pro practice and expert racing, where Brad Oien won JrX. Dancin on the box. More great Views from the DH.

Monday race day, yep monday. Qualify was great, half the people pinning it, half waving at everyone. The timing got screwed up so me and some other threw rocks into this Stump.
Griz with a 5th place qualifier, doing it for America.
Rando came through with the fastest time and Boosted the road gap.

After almost a full week at Angel Fire we headed home, 13 miles from Flagstaff, AZ with no warning or light, the Truck ran out of diesel. It sucked be we Managed.

Finally home I emptied my bags and repacked them to go backpacking up in Yosemite, Ca for 3 day. I got up in the morning and did not feel like going at all, but somehow i got some motivation and headed out another 8 hour drive to Nor*Cal. I dont really remember Yosemite before, it had been such a long time. We came out of a tunnel to see this View. We then set out for a 2 day hike to the top of half dome. The final stretch is up these Cables. The Scenery was pretty amazing, it made me wish I would have brought my good camera. Lots of Waterfalls too.

Check out all the Angel Fire photos here: http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/mtbphoto/Angel%20Fire/
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Get ready for Deer Valley!