Friday, October 14, 2005

MTB ride in Southern Utah


Greg and Jeff at the trail head. Mark took the photo. We are in St George and on the Bear Claw Poppy trail. We are right above the formation called the "Three Fingers of Death".



Greg after having an argument with a large rock. We were on a roller-coaster section of trail, going very fast and just off to the right is a deep gully with associated rocks. Greg went quite fast and his front tire stopped and he did not. It took him 1.5 hours before he could stand up, but once he did, he walked 5 miles out of the trail. Rawr. I am a shade tree.



Greg on the outside of his skin. Concussion, shoulder abrasion, shattered clavical and 2 broken ribs and yet, he was laughing about it all. His sling was an inner tube that Mark had tied together. Tough cookie.



Greg on the inside of his skin. Shattered clavicle. That should be a straight line and there shouldn't be any floaty bits of bone in there.


It was awesome to hang out with my brother (we live on opposite sides of the country). It is a bummer he got hurt and we will have to do it again. Without the hurting this time.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

HNT - MTB fun


Did you ever have one of those days where you just could not stay on your bike? I got this on my friend's birthday as we were descending the rock garden. It took a minute or two to find out a) everything was still attached, b) my back hurt, c) everything still could move a bit, and then to get back on my bike and point downhill again.

I guess this is a HNT entry. Even took some of the skin off for you so maybe this is HNT++.