Another Labor Day weekend spent in Spearfish, SD for the Dakota Five-O. The weather was perfect, camping was great, and it was fun to catch up and visit with old friends. With some new singletrack adding about 20-mins to the race and being a bit new, this was by far the hardest year of racing. […]
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The Summer Adventures Continue…
Whew, it’s been a while. Summer has been going strong. We spend 4th of July in Watertown, SD which is always a great time of year to be in South Dakota! On the way we drove through Spearfish and rode some of the Dakota Five-O course that we’ll be racing Labor Day weekend. Lots of […]
Spring turns to Summer, then back to Winter
Well, we’ve made our migration to Colorado for the summer. As I sit here on this May the 21st and look out the window, there are about 8″ of snow on the ground that fell last night… so, I guess it’s not quite summer yet. A lot of house projects happened this spring. I finished […]
Bike Adventures & Playing in the Snow
There’s something magical about the desert in the winter time, especially after a good rain (which we’ve had plenty of this year). The flowers pop, the mountainside is covered in bright green grass, not what you’d expect in Arizona, and snow! We had a massive winter system come through AZ this past week that dumped […]
New Kitchen, New Year, Same Fun!
Another overdue update coming up. Let’s see, In October my dad and I hike the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, it’s about a 2000′ descent down to the river and really, really steep. The weather was perfect and the park was empty. Then, we spent the next two weeks remodeling the kitchen. Prior to our […]
Off-Season House Projects
Mid August Evie, Lucy and I returned home to Arizona. Evie started teaching and we broke ground on our long list of house projects. The first two of which are the back yard and kitchen (the two places we spend most of our time). On Labor Day we made our annual trip to the Dakota […]
Summer in Colorado, Off-Road Racing & Recharging
Summer kicked off in mid May with our annual migration to Colorado. Evie and I both raced the Grand Junction Off-Road and then a trip to Nevada for the Carson City Off-Road in mid June. Colorado has felt a lot like Arizona lately with highs in the mid to upper 90s and unfortunately lots of […]
Back to Racing Plus a New House
A lot to catch up on since my fractured hip incident. My sister got married April 14th, so Evie and I traveled back to Milwaukee for a long weekend. The wedding was awesome, the weather not so much. 30s, snow, sleet, rain, 30+ mph winds, ya know the goods. Whiskey 50 I’ve been riding again, […]
Fractured Hip – Down for Now, but Not Out
Two weeks ago on Saturday I was heading out on a training/exploring ride on my mountain bike when I fell and broke my hip. It sounds worse than it is. Yes, I have a broken bone, but the doc is expecting a full recovery, no surgery needed. The actual diagnosis is a fracture of the […]
‘Tis the Season of Wild Critters
Christmas will be here before we know it! My parents came to town the weekend before Thanksgiving, so we stayed put for Thanksgiving itself sharing the day with friends who didn’t have family nearby. A few weeks earlier Evie, Lucy and I went for a hike on a section of the AZT. Lucy tree’d a […]