Sit back, relax, let me grab you a wine spritzer... 
Monday, February 20, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Got up and around St. Mary's Glacier on Sunday under beautiful clear skies and warm temps. Yesterday Highroller scooted in on Chocolate Thunder Pussy for the first commute of the year in a blistering 1:25. Contemplated walking several times but ground it out up 97 and then held on thru the ice, snow and gravel into town...fun!
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Wednesday Night racing baby! Highroller took his cumulative 2 months of tele experience to the race course last night and walked away...what? He walked away, which is a miracle in itself. Got the bad juju out of the way by breaking a carbon pole and wrapping his shinbone (almost impervious to pain by now) around a gate on his warmup run. Then pulled down a blistering 29.5 second run. For comparison little kids in lycra pajamas were doing 19 seconds. Run two the speed went up (just look at the picture!) and 2 seconds were shaved off...fun, fun, fun!
Monday, February 06, 2006
After a couple hours of reacquaintance turns at Eldora on Saturday Chainsaw and I hit the backcountry Sunday for our first real tele tour. Just a casual romp thru the trees but the whiteout conditions at East Portal made for a mini-epic just getting out of the car. Rocking back and forth as cascades of wind driven snow covered the windows I was sure we'd be making a quick skeedaddle for points East but Chainsaw lit up the handwarmer packets and eclared herself game for the attempt, and so we were off! Sandblasting terror until we hit the shelter of the trees but worth it after that! Perfect terrain for a tour, not really interesting enough as a snowhshoe (at least not to me) and not steep enough to bring a snowboard but perfect for the teles...fun!
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