I’m getting married next weekend, and it’s tradition for the groom to go do some guy stuff right before the wedding. So, Rick and I drove his monster-truck van way out into the desert, climbed
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While not racers ourselves, Jen and I are huge fans of the World Cup Downhill Series. So, given the opportunity to take an hour train ride and get off at Leogang, we jumped at the
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After we returned to Wörgl, Austria with a fairly broken guide, Jen and I re-grouped and decided to head out for our own adventure on Jasmin’s home trails. Unable to show us around her amazing
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2016-07-12 After Jasmin’s crash, we started to work our way toward her home in Austria. Our original game plan had us spending a couple days riding bikes in Arco, but that was all
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Everywhere you ride, the cast of characters is the same. Go to any mountain biking destination, and there is always a crew of absolute rippers, dedicated trail builders, shuttle drivers with ear-to-ear smiles, visiting road
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2016-07-06 Mountain biking is a universal language. No matter where you are in the world, bikers love the same things—big berms, good tech, loam, perfect jumps. Good trails are good trails, no matter where
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Rick and I had been kicking around the idea of a spring trip for a while. We talked about Alaska and the Canadian Rockies, but we have both been working too much and planning too
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After years of struggling on ice, I had a great season a couple years ago where I finally figured out that I could just climb vertical ice and it wasn’t really that big of a
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Words cannot possibly describe what it’s like to come around the corner on Hwy 120 and see El Cap for the first time. Massive does not even begin to describe it. And then, if you’re
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There are few things that feel better than sitting down on your pack in the parking lot after a big day in the mountains. Taking off your boots feels like an amazing massage, cheap beer
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