Go forth and ride, then bring back pics

From our Gooseberry/Durango/Moab Excursion:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4.../Endoproof.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...y/DSCN0486.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...a/DSCN0262.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...a/DSCN0287.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...a/DSCN0320.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...9/DSCN0333.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...s/DSCN0035.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...a/DSCN0145.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...a/DSCN0237.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...a/IMG_0334.jpg

cause this thread is rad.....a few from the past month and change...

tenquille lake, post summers forest fire ravaging....
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Sr...0/DSC_9011.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Sr...0/DSC_9015.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Sr...0/DSC_9021.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Sr...0/DSC_9195.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Sr...0/DSC_9202.JPG

and full boar challenge in kamloops
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Ss...0/DSC_0069.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Ss...0/DSC_0074.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Y3lSdsvgeCA/Ss...0/DSC_0118.jpg

more to see here -> http://picasaweb.google.com/toddhellinga

...this thread keeps getting better and better. those shots are sicko t.odd!

Jesse on last nights night ride.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1.../IMG_0002b.jpg

Stave at Ninham a couple days back.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...9/IMG_0006.jpg

Farty on the new (as in, two empties found randomly on the trails today) keg roller
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1.../IMG_0009a.jpg

I want to build a teeter now, using the kegs somehow as the fulcrum. Or build them into/onto something.

I know the quality of these pictures is crap, but they're from riding yestday out at post canyon.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/DSC_1284.jpg
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/DSC_1300.jpg
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/DSC_1316.jpg

This thread is sick. So may great pictures. Really stoked.

Some from this year

http://www.leelau.net/2009/chilliwac...geIMG_7766.jpg

Cypress

http://www.leelau.net/2009/cyps2009_...evIMG_1003.jpg

http://www.leelau.net/2009/cyps2009_...deIMG_1044.jpg



Montana

http://www.leelau.net/2009/montanaid...ebP1090682.jpg

http://www.leelau.net/2009/montanaid...mbP1090770.jpg

Idaho

http://www.leelau.net/2009/montanaid...inDSCF1405.jpg

St Helens

http://www.leelau.net/2009/mtsthelen...grouponpoa.jpg

http://www.leelau.net/2009/mtsthelen...windyridge.jpg

Chilcotins

http://www.leelau.net/2009/chilcotin...ntP1020773.jpg

http://www.leelau.net/2009/chilcotin...gdownwindy.jpg

Arizona

http://www.leelau.net/2009/utahcolor...30rrtopars.jpg

Utah

http://www.leelau.net/2009/utahcolor...hunderpine.jpg

http://www.leelau.net/2009/utahcolor...ndersbrock.jpg

Great photos Lee.

It looks like you did some serious road trippin' with the bike this year.

pd

three inches of rain on the table. Even ordering another dish

Getting in the last few days of the season up here. Great to get another week of riding after all of the snow.

Self Portrait:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2536/...b58b197b_o.jpg

A few of Tone Capone

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2491/...73af1309_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/...309e2699_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/...77cae9af_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/...ea248f24_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/...b071ff05_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2776/...d04ec651_o.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...s/DSC05967.jpg



http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...s/DSC06026.jpg



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http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...s/DSC05941.jpg

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1256395816

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1256395816

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1256395816

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1256395816

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1256395816

Hey, UC, I still wanna do that whole ride, keep me posted.

Where in Idaho might this be? If you don't mind sharing.

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Some from this year

Idaho

http://www.leelau.net/2009/montanaid...inDSCF1405.jpg

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^^^^ Pioneer Pass. I posted a TR here about that

We left this at home:
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...ow.preview.jpg
To hit up this:
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...31.preview.JPG
We never were able to confirm if Daywalker's suit was for Halloween or not:
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...18.preview.JPG
3 tiny little riders above the rim
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...23.preview.JPG
Daywalker
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...35.preview.JPG
My lurker man
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...41.preview.JPG
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...47.preview.JPG
Daywalker scaring himself a little...
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...52.preview.JPG
But he goes back up and pulls it out
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...53.preview.JPG
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...56.preview.JPG
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...60.preview.JPG
Strong effort, but he proceeded to eat sand about 1 second later
http://www.biglines.com/sites/defaul...69.preview.JPG

Great trip, great crew -- can't wait for another helping soon...

LaBelle, great pics. I see the one drop on Free Lunch that I always chicken out on (maybe Daywalker shouldve ;-) ). I dont recognize the rest of the pictures, what trail(s) are they from?

The first set is from horsethief/mary's loop/mack ridge/moore fun on Saturday and then we did the ribbon to free lunch to holy cross on Sunday. The pic with the snow starts the set of pics from the ribbon ride. It had just melted out and dried up for the most part -- the slog from the creek bed up to little park rd would have been hardly passable the day before.

To Daywalker's credit the landing on that drop was really soft from the moisture. A bunch of the guys rolled up to it about 10 times only to stop short, but he actually hit it.

[QUOTE=LaBelle23;2586989]It had just melted out and dried up for the most part -- the slog from the creek bed up to little park rd would have been hardly passable the day before.

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we tried to ride it last thursday but it was disastrous. I even attempted shouldering my bike and walking until the trail got higher and potentially dry... no such luck. i guess i'll have to make yet another long trip from Maine to ride the gnarly grand junction stuff!

-Tick

I know I should be getting revved up to stoke on snow but... I won't be back to Utah until January and... I'm really jonesin' to ride Lunch Line and King Kong, takers?

pnut; great shot of Capone with the trees in the foreground, beautiful job of framing.

Anyway, shot of my friend catching air with Bolivian Chulita's in the background.

http://www.tgrmedia.com/i.ashx?w=800...ap_730X550.jpg

So many good pics in here. Making the transition from dirt to snow that much harder.

More Lunch Loops action--down below Free Lunch on Puckerup 2 weeks ago. Two angles of the same drop. I freaking love these trails.

i rode my bike yesterday... it was very muddy. i did not take pictures.

The Dobish = teh failz.

Come on Dobish....where did you ride?

Guess I should throw a pic up so not to be lame like Dobish. :D This is from Golden this spring....things were nice and green.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/IMG_2115.jpg

Things are starting to get good. Been out about 10 times or so and still hoping for a chair lift shaped saddle.

The long traverse

http://stk.tetongravity.com/forums/a...6&d=1304003568

SHEEP! The Basque are doing their annual move across the foothills

http://stk.tetongravity.com/forums/a...0&d=1304003661

Post climb pre descent carbs

http://stk.tetongravity.com/forums/a...7&d=1304003573

Trails are buff right now. Here's one the reasons I built a 29er this year

http://stk.tetongravity.com/forums/a...9&d=1304003620

Epic shredding.

Nice thread bump Conundrum, pics look sweet. How's the Yelli treating you?

29ers are weird. It's fun though...the geo is exactly right for me for XC riding. Not as steep as other 29ers I've tried. For the buff XC trails around here, I wouldn't change anything. I've got Bag's Reign X for the shuttles around here and it seems like a really good two bike quiver. I built it up heavy so I doubt I'll be undergunned on anything except the stuff I'm too scared to ride anyway.

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29ers are weird. It's fun though...the geo is exactly right for me for XC riding. Not as steep as other 29ers I've tried. For the buff XC trails around here, I wouldn't change anything. I've got Bag's Reign X for the shuttles around here and it seems like a really good two bike quiver. I built it up heavy so I doubt I'll be undergunned on anything except the stuff I'm too scared to ride anyway.

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Ultimate two bike quiver is a 29er and a heavy duty trail bike.

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So when are you going to get on that?

http://www.kidwoo.com/Zach/woodwardstills/z3small.JPG

unepic iphone photos. not really sure why people rave about the cam in this thing, to me it's shit.

I call this one 'shart on chicken legs'. One of the dryer days lately. Perspective makes my feet look like that dude's hands in that burger commercial
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...9/photo5-2.jpg

http://assets.creativity-online.com/...ds07130720.jpg

The ladyfriend on her first MTB ride up in the Sycline area
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...789/photo9.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...9/photo4-2.jpg

First ride of the year...6.5 weeks post clavicle surgery :) I felt so good, but have to be super careful riding downhill for the next couple weeks.

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First ride of the year...6.5 weeks post clavicle surgery :) I felt so good, but have to be super careful riding downhill for the next couple weeks.

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Nice. In my experience, once I got through those first couple rides (and the resulting aches and pain, particularly the day after), I was basically good to go with very little discomfort.

Agreed. I have had no issues from my clavicle surgery. It's the wrist and knees that get ya.

awesome pics, found more than a few desktop backgrounds

some of yall are just crazy though

I love the view from this preserve...seems like the whole world is laid out for my amusement! :) The blue off in the distance is the Pacific Ocean, btw.

http://gallery.me.com/jasonhegland/1...13041915990001

Bozeman may be a cold, snowy hell hole right now, but riding out west towards the Continental Divide does not suck ... and it's dry!

No action stoke as I was flying solo today. So just poser shots:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_z...0/DSCN1445.JPG


After one day of riding, these tubes gave out on me. Junk! It also might because I tried to steamroll a cactus ...
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_z...0/DSCN1439.JPG

More poser stoke from today:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_z...0/DSCN1443.JPG

Headed back out tomorrow afternoon to get some more miles on the new ride with an effort to be less of a MTB JONG.

^^^ Lewis and Clark Caverns Loop? If so did you ride clock wise or counter?

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^^^ Lewis and Clark Caverns Loop? If so did you ride clock wise or counter?

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Yessir. Did two loops. Clockwise up at the Greer Gulch trailhead and then some Bozeman Mags hooked it up with a shuttle run down the back side from the visitor center up top. It did not suck.

In other news, I'm going to spray paint all the fucking cactus with safety orange paint so I don't roll over them again...