This bike is cool, too bad there's a fire ban

Chainsaw's new whip!

Moots Psychlo X a la Chainsaw

All I'm sayin' is it pays to know people in low places. You wanna?  Give me a ring

Octopi says "drink!"

Octember 9, 10 and 11, Vernal, UT, McCoy Flats...be there!

Bring your wheels, leave your woes.  Bring your booze and your boobs, leave the news on the tube. Drink cold brews with your buds, don't be moos chewing cuds.  Tell tall tales under stars, shoot your moon up at Mars!

Mmm... Harvest!

Leaves are starting to turn and fall and the garden is producing like crazy... must almost be Autumn

Check out the link. It will blow your mind..

All Hail the Black Market

"What does it mean!!??"

What does it all mean!!??

Even the Double Rainbow guy would have been stumped by the thousand year old petroglyphs of Dinosaur National Monument.  Franks and beans cooked over the campfire on the shores of the Green River...not so tough to figure out.  It means campout time with Trout, Chainsaw and Highroller!  Great weekend in a cool new spot only a couple hours from the 'Boat.

"Rectum? I DESTROYED 'em! Ha ha ha!"

Teaching Trout the proper weenie roasting methodology for 5900' elevations, high desert setting, northwesterly breeze conditions. Yep, just poke 'em with a stick there son.  Roasted marshmellows were the finest I have had in decades and we were camped about 30' from the mighty Green River, private sandy beach and all!  You know the dog loved that

Big Agnes catalog shot

Heading into Box Canyon, UT

Huge in Germany!

Snack time at the Andechs Brewery

I ate pork, pork and some sausage, made of pork.  Also drank many large beers (not, to my knowledge made of pork).  Germany may be the meatiest country I've ever been to, definitely the beeriest and yes, we will be moving there shortly. Or at least returning for Eurobike next year...

Pitiful

Yankee Boy Basin!

Labor Day Weekend, 2010. Since I haven't been to Crested Butte in quite some time, and Amanda is pretty excited about her new mountain bike, we thought we would use the last 3 day weekend of the summer to reconnect with some old places and old faces. A day with an MTB 101 class down the Lower Loop, followed by a hot lap of Strand Hill was followed by a night camped up in Washington Gulch, which included a visit from a "bear" in the middle of the night that managed to spook us out of our tent into the car. A visit with Frank the next day to secure lodging for a winter weekend and we were off to Ouray, which I visited once when I was 15. Let's just say I didn't appreciate what it had to offer at that time.

We hit town with prepared to bang out either Wetterhorn or Umcompagre, with printed guides for both from our trusty 14ers.com website, just to add another 14er to the scoreboard. After setting up camp in the Amphitheater campground, which sits a few hundred vertical above Ouray, but is still surrounded by thousands of feet of rock wall, we rolled into town to grab a six pack of Budweiser Tall Boys and to stick our head into the local outdoor shop. In a educational discussion with the proprietor, we learned our plan involved far more driving than hiking.

"Of course, Mount Sneffels is right outside of town and an easy hike, what kind of car do you drive? A Tacoma, you'll be fine. Just follow this road up to Yankee Boy Basin. Yep, that is one lane.
Now, I'm not a fan of using bike racks. My bikes deserve better than to be exposed to the elements, bugs, and low rock overhangs.
Easy. Right.
Now, what's so striking about this one isn't how good looking I am, it's how blue the sky is. We didn't see one cloud all day.
The lack of clouds lead to unbelievable visibility. We could see the Elk Mountains, Book Cliffs, etc. Over my shoulder in this one - La Sal Mountains. In Utah.
Telluride Ski area on the left, Mount Wilson, El Diente, and Wilson Peak, on the right. Lizard Head Pass too.
This silhouetted peak is Coffee Pot. Not a 14er, but when we got back to the truck, we ran into 3 guys that stood on top of it while we we climbing Sneffels. One of them was this guy.

(Michael Jackson) Billie Jean - Sungha Jung

Holey Cow! 'Course by age 12 I had done plenty of cool shit too, like, um well...yeah ok. Humans are amazing ain't we!

A gaggle of Alfords mug Beckett!

Korova Milk Bar

What have you done to my memory core Dave? Dave?

I'll take the one with double soma, guv!  From one Epsilon Minus (mixing my esoteric sci-fi references here) to another, thanks for the birthday bar-crawl all!  Luckily my liver is so perforated most of the alcohol simple dribbles thru, pools in my feet and then passes harmlessly from my body in the form of damp footprints of the sort the Creature from the Black Lagoon (or Patrick Duffy) might leave behind.