a month in Bolivia....

THIS IS A LONG POST that will take a while to load, but it's worth it... some of the pics seem to be loading retardedly llarge, but I don't know how to fix it....

I spent the last month riding in and around Sorata, Bolivia with Travis Gray, who owns www.andeanbiking.com, guides down there, and is a good friend, Patrick Hooper, and Elliot Hoover, two front range rippers. I will post a seperate thread about my ski mountaineering adventure/debale later on. Together with the boys at www.stellaermag.com (who brought you the powder road) we will be editing and producing a interactive, multi-media webumentary over the next month, so I'll keep the commentary brief (or how about non-existent). The boards looked in need of some serious summer STOKE, so here is my contribution... dig some of the best riding I have ever seen: 6,000 - 10,000ft scree and singletrack descents... truly epic...

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fucking amazing.

Looks like that was a blast.

Looks like an awesome trip!
Not to threadjack, but your photo essay is very close to what I like to share with people in Peru....
welcome home!

Outstanding now I can't wait for more hehe.

Nice job reidhresko! I can't wait to hear more about it! ---Especially how the car fared going through that river :) For know just know I love this photo especially http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...o/DSCN0269.jpg

Welcome back!

Very awesome mang.

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Originally Posted by rideit

Looks like an awesome trip!
Not to threadjack, but your photo essay is very close to what I like to share with people in Peru....
welcome home!

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are you guys riding around Cuzco? we are already talking about hitting that up next year. several visits to peru have left me with the impression that it is very similar to Bolivia, just more developed.

outfuckingstanding!!!

FKNA! Killer shots.

WOW! That looks like a fabulous trip - can't wait to see more!

So, how did this work out?
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Awesome! Fuggin' awesome! Looks like a hell of a time!

Dewd.....just.....dewd.

Wow.

I'm not entirely sure how many times I would have crapped my pants on any one of those descents, but I'm going to say it would be around 10 - 15 times. :yourock:

Now THIS is a fucking TR. Holy shit, absolutely unreal.

I give it five reverends: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

I thought you went down there for skiing?!!:biggrin: What's this bike shit!?:nonono2: :frown: :D :wink:


Can't wait to see the SKI pics.

Gnarly. That's all I got. Gnarly.

The current Bike mag has an article about riding in Peru in it, but your photos are so much better. I want to get out of the country so bad right now... Thanks for sharing

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Originally Posted by goldenboy

The current Bike mag has an article about riding in Peru in it, but your photos are so much better. I want to get out of the country so bad right now... Thanks for sharing

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cheers. there was an article in Decline about riding in Bolivia that was written when NWD6 was filmed down there, but the pics sucked and half of the article was about the dude having the shits. we took about 1200 still pics figuring that even though we are photo jongs, some of them would come out well...and it seems they did.

how'd the video turn out?

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The boards looked in need of some serious summer STOKE

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SUCCESS!!!!!


woot

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how'd the video turn out?

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the vid will be sick. we have about 25 hours of killer footy, tripod, hand held, and helmet cam. combine that with some of the 1200 stills taken and the boys at stellarmag will have more than they can use. should be sick. we are headed in to start doing some voice over and writing some text with those kids early next week and the webumentary should be up and hosted in about 4-5 weeks.

sounds like the trip was:

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then. stoked on checking the www.stellarmag.com stuff

Wow. Unreal. Looks like shit got done. Can't wait to see the vids.

You gotta resize some of those pics though. My computer just had a mild seizure.