Trail Maintenance

So today I spent four hours doing trail maintenance up behind Red Butte Garden. That is some tough work, and I am a bit tired and sore. It was mostly organized by a local bike shop (Revolution Cycle), and there was about 16 people plus the park service “Guide”. We were able to cleanup and widen about 3 miles of trail that was rutted, rocky, and overgrown. I look forward to going out and riding it now that it has been cleaned up. If you ever get the chance to go volunteer to do trail maintenance you should do it. I think that as mountain-bikers we need to do everything we can to show that we are responsible for the trails too so they aren’t taken away from us like they have been in California. Not only did I make some new “biker” friends, I also earned 30 points in the intermountain cup. If you take the DNF out and each rider’s worst finish that puts me solidly back into first place in the fat ass class. I’m stoked. As long as I don’t have another mechanical, and assuming none of the other riders in my class have done maintenance then I should stand a really good chance of winning the cup!

On another note, my youngest sister Lenna is in the hospital getting ready to have her first baby. She has been there since yesterday afternoon, and is finally starting to make progress to getting the baby out. For a while they were talking about a c-section, but hopefully all will go well and I will have a new nice tonight…