Race/ride update...

The past few days have been mountain bike misery. The Deer Valley Race was going to be on the 12th which was yesterday. I did make it to Park City with my mom and dad but it was pouring rain and a little bit of snow nonstop Friday til the Saturday afternoon. Then it probably kept going today too. I knew they were going to postpone it and have it later next week. So I went over there and they said "race is postponed and we'll have it next Wednesday night at 6:00 p.m. I am planning to still go this Wednesday, if I can get off work early like at 2:30. My boss has scouts this Wednesday at 2:30 anyway so it might work out. Also I am hoping to get a carpool up to the race going if the other guys around here are going too. I'll know what is going on tomorrow after I talk to everybody. Then I will be at the Sherwood Hills bike race this Saturday and that will be a fun one too. Then I won't have a race after that until July 3rd at Snowbird.
I won't be riding up at Ephraim Canyon this week at all because of the two races but I will still do bike commuting on some days this week. I haven't rode on the Lake Hill Trail this year yet and I was going to do it last week but I ran into a work conflict and I can't this week either so hopely next week I will be able to. Just during the weekdays, the weekend of the 26th, I might have to help the neighbor's roofing. So I won't ride on that weekend.
I did be able to squeeze in a road ride up the canyon road pavement in between storms yesterday when I got home from Park City so that went well. I am really hoping that all week this week will be nice, beautiful weather. 2 races and bike to work commuting planned up.

More pictures of the new uphill singletrack...

Here's some more pictures of the new trail one of the Gordon boys built just last year. This trail starts from the hydroplant at the mouth of Ephraim Canyon and it's singletrack all the way to New Canyon Road then you can ride on New Canyon road for a while, fork right, go a little more, fork right again, then cross a bridge across the crazy screaming river then go on singletrack again 'til the A-frame house below Badger Mountain Rope Course and above Taylor's Flat. This is a good climbing trail to get to the top of the Flume Trail instead of riding on the canyon road. You can go down the Flume Trail or keep climbing on the canyon road until Willow Creek or Lake Hill for more downhill fun trails that connect to the Flume Trail. This new trail is not much known because most people around here is used to shuttling up the canyon road and just ride down the Lake Hill/Willow Creek/Pioneer/Flume trails on their bikes. But most XC riders around here like to ride up this new uphill climb trail for a good workout. There's not much trail right now but that's what the Flume and other trails looked like when they started out and were barely built. So, I am hoping maybe in 3 or 4 years from now this trail will be all packed down really good and also more people would know more about it. Then we could get Ed Chauner(Intermountain Cup Race Director) over here and try it out to make this trail an official race trail for one of the Intermountain Cup Races. He was going to come last year but I don't think he came. I'll need to ask Durke. Durke also made a new trail from the bottom of the Flume to the hydroplant connecting to the uphill trail to make it a lap race.