The Ogre's Guide to Northern California Mountain Biking
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Auburn SRA/ Mamoth Bar Fire
on Jul 17, 2009 in Mountain Biking A 525 acre fire started in the Mamoth Bar area in the Auburn SRA. I haven’t seen the damage but it appears it was mostly contained on the south side of the ridge, primarily burning the OHV area. It appears that most of the Auburn trails are u...
A Little Bit Insane
on Jul 7, 2009 in recovery I had an appointment scheduled to have my staples removed on Friday but my doctor’s office was CLOSED how lame is that? So by Sunday my staples were driving me NUTS so I did what any slightly insane person with reasonable pain tolerances would...
Recovery progress
on Jun 28, 2009 in Mountain Biking recovery Today and Yesterday are my best days since getting home from surgery and pain is continuing to be less an issue. It’s still plenty of work moving around and if I move wrong the pain ramps up quite a bit. My appetite has returned but I’...
More Ramblings on the Road to Wellness
on Jun 26, 2009 in Mountain Biking My days seem to be broken up into little chunks. For a while I’m feeling nearly ok. Then I’ll use the bathroom or just pass out asleep and then feel horrible for a bit. Sometimes sitting at my laptop, I’ll be IMing folks and just...
Boggs Ramblings and Post Mortem.
on Jun 24, 2009 in MTB Events Mountain Biking recovery boggs Injury racing Last week someone offered me free entry into a race near Clearlake, CA at a great park called Boggs. I’d been thinking of going to the race and getting the free entry sort of tipped me over the edge. The race is a 24 hour endurance race, I di...
Pipi Valley, OHV trails for MTBers
on May 8, 2009 in Mountain Biking Had a great ride today… a friend took me to a place called Pipi Valley east of Jackson. It’s an OHV park but we had lots of fun. There was plenty of mud, a few creek crossings and Bruce broke his rear derailer. Overall not a bad time.