first update. Seattle Washington

So..... first Bike log. 3am.

Bad news. So final preparations for the trip down the coast. We are at Carters house doing a final check on all our gear when from the other room, I hear Dave quite calmly proclaim that he needs to go to the hospital, with no hardcore ugency in his voice i thought it was joke till i walked in and saw this:

minus the paramedic...

the night progessed to this:



THen to this after an hour of sewing up arteries and cleaning it...




So, sadly i will be riding for the most part by myself. Dave goes in for surgery to fix the tendons that were cut(x2) on wednesday. I will leave on friday a little ways down the coast.

So Dave was cutting open a box with our brand new pump insided when the knife which was much sharper than he had expected slipped and lodged itself into is hand cutting through two tendons and one artery. It was pretty epic (we had to clean blood off of the ceiling!) when it happened though, just getting done with the MCAT he was giving us very specific instructions on what we needed to do when he passed out, which he did, and also what we needed to do when he woke up again(which he also did.) Paramedics came a little after he woke up and took it from there. crazy. no lost fingers which is good!

Pretty epic first update i'd say.

I've sold my soul to Robert Redford

I spend way to much time up here. I've realized that i am a much better at keeping this thing updated when i work a lot and its the off season at Sundance.

All things aside I consider my self very lucky to work in a place that is so absurdly beautiful, that despite how long i have worked here i still rubber neck when i drive up this canyon.

And now for something completely different.

I got a new bike which i am super stoked on, i have always road biked, and downhill Mountain biked. So i decided to broaden my horizens. So now i can bike up the mountain then ride down it. this may sound terribly simple and obvious, but so appealing.

Barack the Barbarian

From a NPR article this morning.

"Sometimes, plans change at the last minute. Wednesday morning the president decided to hit the gym in Des Moines. Reporters waited next door at a coffee and comic book shop. That's where we spotted a comic book called Barack the Barbarian.

The cover showed a shirtless Obama, abs rippling, holding a battle ax in one hand and an elephant tusk in the other. Sitting on top of the elephant was his nemesis, Red Sarah, laughing maniacally. I bought the comic and some of the White House staff asked to see it.

Back on Air Force One, when we were done with the serious questions, I decided to ask spokesman Bill Burton about Barack the Barbarian. He'd seen the comic book. "I liked it," he said, "because it had few words and lots of pictures, which made it easy to understand."

thats rich coming from the spokensman for the president...