Riding in Sedona / Flagstaff

Some photos from my trip to Flagstaff / Sedona

It's been a pretty good trip to the southwest so far. Finally got to ride in Sedona, AZ for the first time. The riding is, as you could imagine and see from the pictures, truly epic. Pretty nice weather in the 70's too. Unfortunately , my front derailleur snapped in half within 2 minutes on the trail. I broke it off completely and just did the entire 4 hour ride without shifting up front, which surprisingly worked out fine. I also got a flat after hitting a cactus. It clearly wasn't my day.

I've been doing some random hikes and bike rides in Flagstaff. Today I went down to the Grand Canyon w/ Paul to hike it for the first time ever only to be kicked out after 45 minutes because we had a dog! It was really irritating because we were told dogs were fine as long as we had him on a leash. The rangers were just rude, which sort of spoiled the first half of today. Went to some pool hall after dinner though and made up for it.

Remember me?

Long time since I updated this, but that doesn't mean I haven't been riding! I finally got my old superlight built up again thanks to a new front triangle from Santa Cruz. They hooked me up really good.

I've been ripping Skeggs, Sedona AZ and Flagstaff. I'm about to head down to the Grand Canyon to do my first hike down the canyon. Lots of pictures from all these rides will be going up soon...

The Brides of March

More fun in San Francisco: The Brides of March

ACA Press Release

The Adventure Cycling Association sent out a Press Release regarding the Great Divide Route and the races on the route a few day ago. Nothing really of note, although it is cool that Tour Divide is getting a little more press these days. A cool side note (that doesn't really matter too much) is that they use a picture of me from the 2006 race in their release (although you can barely notice it is me). Neat!

Tour Divide / Great Divide Route Photo Gallery

This morning I finished putting together the master Tour Divide / Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Photo Gallery. Hundreds of photo organized in order from Banff, Alberta (Canada) to Antelope Wells, NM (USA). If anyone really wants to learn about the GDMBR, this is a great way to find out about it!

Around the world in *100* days?

I'm pondering

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/16/frazier.record.breaking.ride.cnn

San Francisco: Ideal for base miles

The weather the past few days has been absolutely amazing. I might be able to lay down 22 hours of base this week! (Of course, this is a little bit more than I'm supposed to do, but I feel obligated to take advantage of this and enjoy it!)

Things are really looking good for this year's Tour Divide race. I've been able to put in more base miles this years than the first two years I did the Great Divide Race, so I'm hoping this will translate into a great race for me.