Another Good Week!

The past week has been pretty good. I had a little overtime, my shift and a trade shift. Then rolled right into a couple good hikes in the George Washington NF. O yeah I had to do a little plumbing here at the house. It required a trip to Home Depot, that was ashame (I love that Place).

We had an early start today. Met up for a ride at the Watershed with Chris, Chris, Greg and Myself. Good thing we didn't have to introduce ourselves, no would believe our names. Thanks to Chris Gay, we have some short clips of a little jump we rolled up on. My New Computer has a movie maker so I started to dabble a bit... The first starts with Chris jumping then two of mine and the second movie is all Chris. His first tumble was at Rocky Gap SP, MD on 1-1-12. Might have been his first of 2012?

Here are a few pictures from the two hikes in GW NF.

My Snowboard Rocks!

Well, I guess I'm starting to slack on keeping this blog updated. I just don't feel like I need to put my life into words, or what I'm thinking, or what I want to think. As I type this I think that maybe I'll try to take more pictures, and just put them on here. That sounds easy, right?

Colorado was great, met a lot of good people and got a lot of time on the slopes. They could use a little more snow acctually. Vail was pretty good but Keystone was pretty thin. There were rocks showing through the moguls. I had a few gouges in my Snowboard when I came home. It's a good thing I know how to do Base repair and wax. The day a I spent with John and Cheryl was nice also. John ripped up his skis so bad on the rocks he might need new one, that's ashame (haha).

China Bowl, Vail, CO

Vail, Co

The longest bump run ever! Keystone, Co

Keystone, CO

John and Cheryl's place in Silverthorne, Co

Sunrise as I appoach Nederland, Co

I found this yummy morsel as I was leaving Nederland, Co. Last time I had one was in South Lake Tahoe, Ca.. mmm

                                 

Since my return I have missed Colorado every day, the weather, the geography, the people, the activities, it's just a great place! Everyone I talked to out there all told me the same thing "just come out, it'll all work out." That scares the crap out of me, I have it way to good here on the east right now. I'll live there someday, not sure when.

The weekend I got back to WV I had a visitor. It was nice to see Nathan and his puppy for the night. They were heading to meet the rest of the family in NC.

The weather here has not been very 'winter like' lately. It's a little depressing when I have so many winter clothes just sitting here not getting used. Heck I don't even wear a jacket anymore. It's going to be 65 again this week. The weather being so mild has definitely allowed me to keep my bike rides up though. I'm around 8-10 days of biking so far this year... should be on track for 100.

This week I'll be working 3 days then who knows what the weekend will bring, I just heard about some hot springs in the GW Nat Forest. Maybe I'll try to find them.

Got bored and decided to take my old bike apart

January Report

Wow, I had a great day yesterday. The weather was warm and "summer like," everything was dry... So nice. Woke early and met Jim for a bike on some new trails in Lucketts. Kerkstra has been raving about this new local ride for a while now. He has ridden it with his old bike and his new one, I think he even did some trail work one day (a true trail steward).  While we were waiting for Lippy and Dan, Jim and I wanted to take a quick lap.  Little did we know how tough it was going to be. It took a little over an hour to sweat through it. For newly cut trails, they were pretty good. Soft and spongy right out the gate with very little warm up time made my legs and lungs scream. Once I got warmed up it went pretty smoothly, I'm not sure Jim felt the same... He was done after that lap so I took off with Lippy and Dan. This lap was a little softer and spongier but we moved right through it and felt pretty good. Couple slips and falls but no really juicy crashes. When we got close to the end I sped off to meet my afternoon commitment to the river.

Meanwhile, back in West Virginia I met up with a friend, staged a vehicle and took on a new section of the Shenandoah. I make that sounds like I am big time river explorer... I'm not. It was the section that runs from just south of my house to just passed Rt 9. Pretty fun and great weather, I mean seriously ow often do we get in the 60's in January.

Today was filled with errands and lunch with Chris. I'm leaving for Colorado tomorrow so I re-waxed the board and packed all my junk. Hope I am hydrated enough!

I'd have to say, it was a pretty sweet month. I logged a few days on the snowboard, few good hikes, 5-6ish bike rides and a journey on the kayak. O yeah I worked a bit of overtime plus most of my own shifts.

What's next?