Sounds good. Rideit, looking forward to your tour of the west side.
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Sounds good. Rideit, looking forward to your tour of the west side.
I just got the 97% firm dates for the sales meeting in question, and they are two weeks earlier, so barring any grande races and hoping for spousal approval, I should be able to make a few days.
Have I said that I really, really want to ride the Pass shuttles?
Pass shuttles will be served hot, with moist towlettes.
Be ready, I won't be!
How'd I miss this sticky???
Count me in. I know I'm lame, I don't have to go anywhere to attend!
I'm not the perfect guy for guiding, but I do know my way around the pass. I'll be passing through Jackson on that weekend on the way to MT (and doing a day at Big Sky) and could do some shuttle laps.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowtron
I am confused. what days are you going? I want to be at the pass shuttling summit, not the death XC ride summit.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowtron
How about the death-shuttling summit?
gotcha. I forgot you guys doing everything "Jackson style". yeah, I am in for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
...words to fear in Jackson. "Oh yeah, that's a classic".
I like death Xc rides;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hev
but also like downhilling tenatively in but I have much better chance for this than the Colorado Mini.
Put me in the game coach! I will be there! The second week would be better for me, but who am I! Conundrum you want to travel together? You know the bike I will be travelin with.
Leo's need not apply. Seriously. Please don't come if you have a big mouth. We are sharing sacred ground with you. These are not the 'Little Holes.'
Rode Mt Manning to Mahogany yesterday. Yum-Yum.
Who was the geek in the blue spandex? Put some baggy shorts over that shit. Please.
I will be organizing an all-Aquarius DH ride on Sunday.
If you are not an Aquarius, but do flow like water downhill, you are welcome on our most pleasant ride of the hidden trail called 'Skullfucker'.
Thanks, and peace be with all you Aquarian souls. Keep your lips pursed upon completion of this glorious trail, thank you.
Skullfucker is open again?
That trail is an oddball.
I rode it once on my Giant VT! Bad choice!
Heh heh heh.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
alas, I will miss this event. Have a raft trip that weekend as well (Gates of Lodore) and I'm missing that too. Instead, gonna stay close to home and do the Keystone Bluegrass/Brew fest, ride in the morning, drink beer all afternoon.
OK, WHO IS IN?
(Fuck, I did a ride tonight that I think everyone should do...but it is a grueling 1800 foot climb, followed by the ROWDIEST natural, fast, flowy, rooty, rocky, SICKNESS, and we could do it as a three hour loop FROM THE HOUSE. (Pole Canyon-Mike Harris)..
Thoughts?
Head count?
I'm in.
(What were those dates again?)
Boy, I don't even know the dates.
What did we decide?
You gonna bring up any other front rangers?
I'd love to commit but I won't be able to tell you either way until the last minute...probably a week or two in advance at best.
I also only have my big bike in Utah. I could ride it on a 3-hr 1800 ft. loop no problem. But a 6 hour sufferfest? No way. I be shuttling the pass while you guys do that.
Same here. I've been jonsin' to get down to the Winds or over to the Pioneers again, so if I can find someone to come out with me, I might make a big trip (ride and hike) out of it. But it would be a last-minute yea-or-nea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
1800' = grueling???Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
really? :)
i wouldn't be too worried. not sure what kind of bike you're riding, but the climbs UP the pass are not that hard to do -- you can ride broken pavement. some of the "shuttles" start from <1/2-way up = maybe 30 minutes of climbing (on my heavy bike). you don't even need a shuttle to shuttle. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
even to bike from the base of the pass past the parking lot to a higher peak is pretty straightforward (and fun).
I'm 95% sure that I'm 95% sure that I'm coming.
I think you westerners forget that the eastern half of the country lives, shits, and rides at sea level. SEA LEVEL!!!!!! ie., 0 feet amsl. Or at least within a few hundred feet of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by upallnight
At 6,500', walking up the stairs to the Rancher would make me tired. (wait, no, nevermind, that would make me tired cuz Im outta shape)
UAN, you clearly have not ridden up Pole Canyon, followed by the 500' hike a bike after the climb. Tis' grueling.
Not to mention Grove Creek, South Fork Horseshoe, Mail Cabin, etc...the climbs in JH are middle ring compared to what we ride over here.
ahhh... you didn't say you were hiking. hike-a-bike is a different matter!!Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
haven't ridden pole canyon but perhaps i will - sounds like the downhill must be worth it. still haven't gotten in a MTB kick this season, but looking at the big holes the other day made me wonder. i mainly just ride loops from the house and don't really like to travel for MTB (as silly as that sounds, i just hate driving to go ride).
The Big Hole's kick major, major, major ass.
Worth the drive.
Hit me up for a tour, followed by a burger at the Knotty.
Totally worth it.
is snow king a middle ring climb for you? old pass road to elly/triple direct?Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
damn! i am impressed (seriously)!
i only have two rings on my bike... but i'm not using the middle rings on those climbs. maybe i would if i shaved 9-10# off the bike. :)
I have ridden up old pass road on my full DH bike, with a 38 ring, cleaned the whole thing without pushing....and I have cleaned ferrin's on a singlespeed...(in sections, dabbing), as well as Snow King in the middle (32) ring....but I am sadly not in that kind of shape anymore.
I am a granny lover now.
that is impressive!Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
there's a 50' vert section toward elly that i can never clean. i try to go from my house to elly non-stop....but i always push this one section. it's not in the 36T ring, though, but it's not in the easiest combo, either (close!).
and snow king in the 32T on a 38#-er is pretty damn good. wow.
go, rideit!
Snow king was on a 24# race rocket, just to clarify.
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Originally Posted by rideit
Really? I hear they're all trashed out from the motos.
alright... now that makes a difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
it's been so long since i've been on a bike that light. kinda tempting sometimes.
Motos make 'em better.
Rideit - Is Pole Cnyn to M. Harris better than Mail cabin to M. Harris? That's the way I have always ridden it but I'm always looking for a new option. Great downhill though. You're right about that. You'll have to show me around the Big Holes sometime.
Both are great...and both have a brutal hike a bike.
And both have sublime high altitude ridge singletrack, with no Moto action!
Mike Harris (actually Mike Sell) has a TON of deadfall right now, we might go up with chainsaws to clear it out.
I think that we were the first users on the trail this year yesterday...
Well done.
I'll be around for some rides during the summit and by the way - congratulations on getting the :tdo13: to find the target!
Is pole canyon anything like post?
plenty o' stuff with nice climbs (no hiking) + super-nice descents w/ no motos, albeit a little tougher to ride to from the ID side. i rarely see many/any people on the pass rides i do.
Rideit, upall, you guys want to ride before the summit? Ill be in idaho all summer and have been riding around victor. Just looking for someone to show me around.
P)M me, silly boy... (girl?)
Lot's o' great riding arounds....
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Some Lithium shuttle stokey pics. The bottom pic is of Nik Blaskovich. Still doesn't ring a bell, RideIt?
I found all these random videos online of Lithium and Big Sky. Nik is in all of them with Chad Ovens, Ryan Sears, and 'Jed'. Is that the same Jed that posts here?
Flowtron, I googled Nik on the google machine and it looked liked you guys raced together a lot. Did you ever know him?
I used to bike with him every day. Or maybe it was only 6 times a week, I can't remember. Haven't heard from him in years.