awesome ride at taneum

few weekends back sara and I rode taneum for the stumpjumpers june fun day. the most amazing thing was we had all our shit packed thursday evening and I actually left from work with trailer in haul and picked up sara from the bus. I think it was the earliest we've left riding since I can remember :-)

the weather at taneum was awesome! a little cold on top but sunny. conditions were overall good, some dust on the lower trails but up high on the better single track it was prime. few snow patches remain but most everything cleared.

the course jerry allen laid out was sweet! one downhill still had lots of snow with a single deep snow rut to follow, I think he called it the luge or something like that.

I hadn't rode taneum in at least 2 years and was pleasantly surprised with the riding. of course getting out of the junction was lame as always with all the hacked trails coming out of there

we also did the night enduro, fun to put the lighting on and do some night riding. we were late to the first check, but jerry allen admitted he didn't set the clocks by seconds so I know we were actually on time.

so we ended up riding about 80 miles saturday, then rode another 40 sunday. I was actually a bit sore the next week.

and I almost forgot, I did manage to have a little incident... up on top in the cold saturay (and me wearing vented gear) I must have stiffened up as I managed to pull a muscle or something in my shoulder. next stop jason was convincing me my shoulder dislocated (I don't think it did) and I was trying to pop it in when suddenly it began hurting immensely... short of the story as I ended up passing out for a few seconds, which everyone else found pretty funny.

oh, and another thing I almost forgot... be sure to ask sara next time you see her if you she has any thyme and sage :-)