Down the Gadzooks Trail.Another great day of skiing and ibrofen at the end of the day today! Every time I go skiing, I get this big headache and sore legs at the end of the day, but it's worth it. I wanted to have a chance to go to Snowbird skiing, not bike racing. When I went there, I kept thinking about the most gruelsome, hardest, big time suffering best race I ever did. The Snowbird Widowmaker Hillclimb in the summer of 2000. Actually, I have been thinking about this race every day since September 2000. It was just the steepest granny gearing hill climb ever from the base to the top of the tram. I finished second in my age group(19-29) and I finished 5 minutes behind the pro. I did it in one hour and 3 minutes and it was the best I ever did in a race. I remember going maxinum heart rate all the way up and didn't need to train all week for the Deer Valley race the week after that and got 1st on that one(it was easy). After the snowbird race, I lost interest in all the other races but that's not why I stopped racing, I stopped racing because of injuries on both of my knees because I didn't lift weights for my legs with my bike training when I got home from my mission so I just tore them up from lifting up things. Then I got sick, lost a lot of weight, then gained too much weight in the last two years, so I am not race compatible anymore. But I ride for fun now, and ski! Skiing at Snowbird was great! I loved it, except for the crowds here. The service was great though. I love Snowbird! Good biking and skiing memories here.
Down the double black diamond trail called Dalton's Draw, I loved this one!
And a shitload of people! UUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!
9 comments:
looks like fun dude!
Looks cool. That sounds like a killer climb I wouldn't have made it ten feet.
It was, it was like the hardest climb I ever did. There are some really hard climbs like Bald Mountain and New Canyon around here but racing up something like that, it makes it 5 times as harder. Racing is hard.
WOW DAN! The pictures are so cool. It is so hard for me to think of skiing and snow when I am here in the warm NC weather.
It was 62 degrees outside of my work in Manti yesterday. I actually turned my air conditioner on driving back home. It was nice today too, like 55, so I went on a walk with the dogs out at the hills.
Dan, you should call ksl. They were saying the warm spot in the state was St. George at 61.
But the thermometer said 62! I saw it with my own eyes and made sure, my boss saw it too.
It must have been hanging in the sun on a hot metal building or something. The high in Manti that day at the radio station was 33! If you had 62 at your work then you should get some reasearchers and nominators down there to reasearch and nominate it as something really wierd!
Ya, then they can put a story about it in the National Geographic or something. Because it is weird.
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