West Shore Backcountry ski tour

Not a Bad View of Lake Tahoe...

Hollie and I got in the backcountry this morning up in Tahoe with our friends, Rick, Susan, Deb and Craig. Lots of new snow and one hell of a steep skin track up

Hollie on the split board

When we lived in Utah we used to do this quite a bit...but hollie snowshoed. Skinning is much faster! The heavy powder today affectionately known as "Sierra Cement" reminded us how much we love Utah

Almost to the top.

Hardly any wind today and temps in the 30's. Beautiful day

I love a good tour.

loving old man winter

I think Udo was born to be a sled dog. He pulled so hard

since the weather was so awful yesterday we did not venture too high up the mountain. We did not need to go to far because the snow is soooo low.

Couldnt be happier

Hollie, fox and chris, udo breaking trail

In the trenches

Tons of snow. We had a great time snowshoeing yesterday. The only downer was the fact that I got the truck stuck and it took about an hour to recover the vehicle. I had nothing i needed. thankfully a passer by lent us a shovel. I could have used a wench and a tree saver for sure!

travel van

I think if this vehicle had single rear wheel I would sell everything I own, except a bike and a camera and take off forever.

Little bit of motoing

I wonder how that cart is going to get retrieved?

This cart is or was used for transporting goods across the south fork of the yuba down at jones bar...only it has been let go and is a bit a drift!

Hollie ripping up the fire road

Down by the river.

We are lucky in the fact that we can ride out our door on dirt and find good terrain to keep the skills sharp on the moto.

Believe it or not, but I won that sweet KLIM jacket in a drawing at www.klimusa.com

Low water

Unfortunately the water is kind of low right now, that pool behind us is pretty much at summer height and its February...I hate to say it, but bring on the rain and snow!

great day to skip work

Attack!
Slaying the Skogsloppet

So yesterday I skipped work to go ski...nothing new, just that there was a great race to go do. The 15km Skogsloppet. The conditions were great. Cold snow, warm air 100 skier field and a great course. The Rossis were running yesterday and my legs felt pretty good, perhaps the fitness is coming. I ended up 5th...super stoked on that!

this guy is going to the world championships

this guy is going to worlds

This blog post is an electronic high 5 to my man matt shriver. He was recently selected to represent the United States at the world championships of cyclocross.
I am here to let you know that you should go to his website: www.mattshriver.com
and help him get to worlds. The bummer about being selected is that he has to pay his own way. the good part is that he is selected and you can help him out
Go to his website. You can donate $$$$ or buy coffee that goes towards helping him go to worlds.

help a brother out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and if you cannot help out, send this post on to some of your friends

Thanks!

built but...

Check out the brakes

ready to roll

One thing has made this build incomplete. I got the wrong crankset. I got SRAM RED bb30. I just need the standard outboard bearing crankset...so in the meantime I have got some good old 7700 DA cranks on ther.