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TR: The Enchantments 2011

Justin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:22:58 +0000

Preface: I’m typing this less one finger so report is scheduled to get longer with time. Yet again sliced myself on a knife, same damn finger, right down the scar line, bread knife this time. Probably should leave the guns with the parents at this rate. This ninja shit ain’t for amateurs. This time

TR: Mt. Adams

Justin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:14:54 +0000

So first, let’s just get it out of the way now – if you saw a guy that looked like anybody in the below pictures on Adams a week or two ago but rode like a total chump it wasn’t me. I swear.

Anyways, Mt. Adams is the second highest mountain in Washington state,

Mt. Adams summit panorama

Justin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:34:12 +0000

Quick ‘n dirty ‘n washed out due to lack of CPL panorama from the summit of Adams. Click (and then click again…) to view larger.

aka I hiked 6k vertical feet for horribly suncupped crappy turns and all I got was this lousy

One Pic TR

Justin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:01:09 +0000

Will have more eventually but my computer is being a b.i.

Jackson Day 3

Justin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:14:08 +0000

Yeah, these have been a bit slow getting out. Not feeling all that verbose, so just a few photos.

Sick Westfalia Syncro (4wd) with truck bed liner paint job. Yes, I’ve got permawood for VW busses of all vintages.

Vista

Was so windy it blew out a three burner gas grill with

Jackson Day 2

Justin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:07:12 +0000

Guess I didn’t really update the ol’ blog when I was there. Here’s a quick day 2 recap.

After waking up to the below view from my tent was stoked on the possibilities of the day.

Rolled from Victor, ID over Teton Pass into Jackson. Cued up the obligatory Modest Mouse for the

Jackson Day 1

Justin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:57:21 +0000

Pulled into the Teton Valley area around 6PM last night after being on the go since 5AM (and being awake since 2AM – of course was too stoked to fall back to sleep). Long drive made longer by the fact that my Chewbacca had to cancel at the last minute leaving me to roll

Trip Report: Surveyor’s Ridge

Justin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:28:16 +0000

Distance: Not far, a leisurely 10 miles

Weather: Sunny with an intermittent cloud early. Halfway point saw the wind kick up to where the clouds were moving so fast it looked like riding in a time lapse video.

Short summary: After last weekend’s attempt at finding a different trail resulted in almost running out

Two quick rides – Meth Forests and Forest Park

Justin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:04:19 +0000

#1: Meth Forest

Needed to get out and enjoy the intermittent non-rainy periods over the long weekend. Briefly considered Syncline yet again, but as the poison oak was bad last time, can only imagine what it was like with another two weeks to grow and fester. Some quick interwebs research decided to try a

Trip report: Syncline (again…I know)

Justin — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:55 +0000

An old college buddy was in town this weekend before he started his new gig, figured as Saturday was supposed to be spring-like that I’d bring him out to Syncline as 1) it would be dry relative to anything else around 2) I like Double Mountain and 3) wanted to check out a few