Welcome Back to Wisconsin

So my stint in Santa Cruz ended on Saturday morning as I took the red eye out of SFO. It was a 3:30 hour flight coming into MSP at 6:00 b/c of the time change. I woke up to the woman next to me saying that we're landing....sweet...In South Dakota...cool cool...WHAT!?! Too much fog to land in MSP. So we'all sat on the tarmac for 4 hours not able to leave the plane, until the fog cleared. Yeah that was about as much fun as going to the dentist.

Back in EC Nora and I watched this. Ranks up on my top 10 of all time. Fo sho! On Sunday Chase, Nora and I went out to battle the 30 mph gusts. Crazy asshole drives were trying to get self-righteous and while being splended role models for their kids in the back seat. Nora peeled off as Chase and I made out way out to Lowes Creek.

THIS IS WHERE IT GOT FUCK'D UP!! So we were riding down Lowes Creek Rd and about a quater mile up the road coming our way was a Jeep Grand Cherokee...no big deal. But then the Jeep swerves across the center line, tags the dirt shoulder, fish-tails across the road to the other side, tags that ditch (Chase and I are like wtf) and as the Jeep hit that ditch the MOTHERFUCK ROLLS. Tires are skretching, glass is exploding, roofs are crimpling. The Jeep does a complete roll and lands jelly side up. So what would you do if you'd just rolled your car? Well that gut reaction was not this dudes, he put the mother fucka into drive and starts driving away. Bare in mind that he has two flat tires, like 4 broken windows, and a smashed passenger side roof. It gets even better when we slowed down as he's slowly making his way on the road and asked if he's ok and his response was, "No I'm not hurt, I'm good I'm good" and keeps driving. At this point Chase and I bust out laughing at this dumb ass and decided if that's how it is then that's how it is.

So Chase and I went to hit up the trails giggling the whole time about a teenage punk that took out daddy's car for a ride, rolled it, and then "tough guy'd it" by brushing it off like it's the third time this week that he'd rolled his dad's car on a flat straight open road.

In other news the new U23 Team Momentum Kits look good...Even when you're not...Peace.

No One's Raining On My Parade

I'm not one for looking at the forecast before I ride, so when it said that it'd rain yesterday wasn't about to change my plans of riding at Nisene State park on the trails. I got my bike that just arrived Monday afternoon all tuned up and ready to hit some trails. I got out there and promptly got lost. I was going in circles that happen to have a long steep climb in the middle of it, but I couldn't really argue with the scenery even though it was raining the whole time...But after a while I wanted to get on with heading up to the Outlook which is roughly 1600 ft of climbing. On my way up I swore I saw Ryan Trebon, Barry Wicks, and some other Kona rider going the other way. All's I know is that they were three extremely tall dudes all decked in team kits on Kona bikes so who knows...doesn't he live in Oregon? Anyways after the 'pro sighting' I climbed for an hour staight through more red woods....Got to the top and the sun started to come out again...Then I proceeded to fry my brake pads and be on the brink of hypothermia as I motocross'd my way downhill for 35 minutes. All said and done 4:17...
Anywho. I gotta go to the bike shop for some new pads and figure out where I'm going today...oh yeah and play a round of golf with my cousin. Peace.

California Dreamin' on Such a Winters Day

On Monday Dave and Judy hooked me up with a guide (Peter) to show me some of the trails around Santa Cruz. The trails were pretty much hardpack with long climbs and sweet alternate option descents through the red wood forest around UCSC campus. Dave and Judy warned me that I might get worked over by Peter, but it was a pretty chill ride for 3 hours or so. After I got home though I felt too good so I went out for another 2 hour loop east in the mountains-through more red woods. It was again another perfect day 60s and sunny though Tuesday looks to have some rain in store for the early morning, but still high 50s low 60s. Anywho. Here's some pics from the ride...It gets wierd out in the mountians. Huge houses in the middle of nowhere with 5+ cars parked 2 of which actually work but non-the-less the passes were sweet...

Cali Training Camp

Well you know it's that time of the year. The time where school is put on hold, bags are packed, legs are shaved, and the grocery bill goes through the roof--Spring Break Time/Training Camp! This year, instead of battling the snow, cold, and those little aligators that make Donkey Kong so hard, I decided to go out to Cali to visit my aunt, uncle, cousin and brother. So I flew out of Msp and spent good St. Patties night in SFO. Today we went for a ride down by the beach, where Dave and Judy (aunt and uncle) showed me the trail head to some sweet single track that I'll hopefully hit up in the coming days. I think I'll be able to really put in some solid hours on the bike here since I'm don't have to worry about cold toes, freezing water bottles, and duldrum roads....
My Aunt and Uncle by the warf....
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For all you's who are grinding it out...It takes ballz. I however feel mildly like a cheat for having the opprotunity to be here...but then again that might just be all the sun I got today talking.