Memorable Moments of 2007

[xhuskr]

where to start? well..just rambling and in no particular order
-becoming a more active STR member and meeting many, many great people with big hearts
-finishing the Traverse (2nd to last in my group..but finished)
-having 7+ years without a MS episode (fingers crossed now)
-doing the MS ride for the 5th time (with support from friends/family


-pushing myself to ride more and stronger
-loving my wife more every year (sappy...sorry , but credit is due)
-MT SAC race without my car drying on the way up
-finding more riding buddies
-re-finding Turnbull after MANY years
-my students
-discovering the Trabuco trail more than once
-Beachwood BBQ and the Long Beach Hopheads for my beer needs
-summer mtn biking in the Santa Monicas
-making it up the hill from hell at the Sladnas ride
photos from the year;


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/tkblazer/bike%20pics/oneil%20park/IMG_7148.jpg
http://mann.rcpics.net/mtsac1104/IMG_0079.jpg

oh...and this thread to end the year is a nice touch!

[CalEpic]

2007 was a good year for my family and me. We were all healthy and happy. I took some outstanding mtb related trips and some memorable family trips that did not involve mtb. I still think I work too much but I believe in 2007 I've started to balance it out pretty well.

How about a few pics?

I trained my butt off on boring fire roads to finish the Counting Coup.


Once again we made our way to Arizona for the Spring Fling


Riding with the bubbs in Laguna


One of the Palm Canyon rides


A day at Aliso with my boys


Kernville with a nice bonus white water rafting excursion


Downieville & Tahoe


Family camping trip at Big Sur


Houseboat trip at Lake Powell


Utah


Some other moments - Bought a new dirt bike. I'm really jazzed about this. Motocross changed my life for the better as a teen and I'm really looking forward to more throttle twisting in 2008.

My wife and kids are getting into mountain biking. This is really cool.

I can only hope 2008 is as kind.

[mtbchip]

Some snapshots from 2007

1)The Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. I took a trip with the company Escape Adventures. Just fantastic!

2)Idaho: Endless singletrack.......!

3)My son wins the San Diego County Fair Jalapeno Eating contest: 47 in 5 minutes! ( Yes, ouch to what you are thinking about the day after)

4)My brother Paul makes it down from Portland for 5days of great San Diego Co riding!

5) Hanging on the beach in the Turks and Caicos.

6) My first time to Tucson AZ, rode the Arizona Trails and met my first Green Mojave rattlesnake eye to eye!

7) First time on the "new" Off Camber/ZigZag Ridge Trail in Sycamore was in 2007. A fun diversion!

[davidB]

making a comment on here the night before the San Juan ride that I wished I had gone to REI and picked up an extra tube along with an Adventure Pass. Said I'd risk both and be there the next day anyway....

#1. Get to San Juan (2nd, maybe 3rd STR ride ever) and J_Sims walks up to me, hands me an Adventure Pass that I can use for the day, and tells me he brought me 2 extra tubes and to pick what sized I wanted as well. My jaw dropped, and thought I don't know who this stranger is but the dude is helping me out. If he has a van and free candy, i'll get in. Even weirder, he wasn't riding that day but was there for the hell of it.

#2. Go down hard on my shoulder/head not too far from where we turned around at, and thinking that I'm out by myself and caught between riders, I'm hoping I'm ok as I (still) remember 3 hard hits on the ground with my head and hoping someone was behind me to help if hurt (think rock skipping on a lake, but with my nogin and hard dirt). Apparently someone was behind me, saw and stopped. He pulled my bike off me and waited until I finally got off the ground (which seemed like forever) and asked me a couple times if I was ok. My head and shoulder hurt, and my arm swelled up and stung like hell. I never did find out who this was, not a famous STR poster I guess but cool nonetheless. thanks mystery dude

#3. Get back to my car and find one of those Path flyers, hand off J_Sims stuff to someone else to get back to him (andy?), and Anne gives me some stuff to put on my scraped up arm. Roger hooked me up with a soda and all was well.

[RacinJason]

I lost most of my pictures when My other laptop died I will post a couple that are on my new one.

[RacinJason]

[Pugz]

What a great thread.

1. 2007 is the year I started really riding and met the great group of people that are the STR Family.
2. Convinced the wife to let me get a new bike and got a Chumba
3. Joined the STR birthday ride and rode with a lot of really cool people, Dino, Yo Mama and ferret.
4. Met a lot of other awesome people at the Sunday newbie rides (there are so many names that should go hear but I don't want to forget anyone, you know who you are)
5. 2008 is going to be a great year with the birth of my first child.

I look forward to 2008

[RacinJason]

Pugs ,

I am working on setting up a bike maintenance clinic.
This should be a Memorable moment. Learning is always something to remember.

I'm working on the location. It seem to be getting a lot of interest. Maybe a BBQ and a small fun ride can go with it. I might have it at my house. I am thinking of doing the Anaheim Hills loop or something right after it. Maybe a small Huck clinic if the ladders are still up in AH. The local schools have some things to learn to jump off off. Thats is it is a small group.

Also PM me and let me know how everything is going with your bike.


J

Originally Posted by Pugz

What a great thread.

1. 2007 is the year I started really riding and met the great group of people that are the STR Family.
2. Convinced the wife to let me get a new bike and got a Chumba
3. Joined the STR birthday ride and rode with a lot of really cool people, Dino, Yo Mama and ferret.
4. Met a lot of other awesome people at the Sunday newbie rides (there are so many names that should go hear but I don't want to forget anyone, you know who you are)
5. 2008 is going to be a great year with the birth of my first child.

I look forward to 2008

[RacinJason]

Let's see some memory's I know you all have a bunch of fun rides that I have missed out on.

[mottmcfly]

Originally Posted by ChumbaJason

Let's see some memory's I know you all have a bunch of fun rides that I have missed out on.

I have had the best time looking through all of these great pictures and stories of things accomplished, weight lost, sickness overcome, people met and people lost. Sometimes the dearest of people.

The one thing I see over and over again is the love of life.

One of my greatest moments of 2007 was to read through this post. It has reset me to what is one of the most important things in life. And that's you guys.

I thank you all

Mott

[Tedroy]

Leah broke her ankle up at Mammoth back in May of '06. We had 1 day of great skiing, then a storm day hit. That afternoon we went to meet the crew at the Austria Hof... around 4 PM... She was just crossing an icy patch of road... and boom, down she went. I tried to hang on to her but...


She spent the next 5 days in the Mammoth hospital.
Guess what I did... Shredoll