I rolled over to the entrance to Phil's just about an hour before sundown yesterday. I carefully towed the trailer over some nasty road to a turnaround where I could park for the night without blocking the road. It got danged cold overnight. I hung out in the tPOD until almost 10 AM waiting for the air to warm up a bit.
Then I hit it. I spent a whole day riding Phil's last Spring during the 12 Hours of Mesa Verde. Today was no race, just for fun.
Man is this a fun place to roll! Swoopy, curvy, up and down singletrack weaving through the piñon/juniper and sagebrush. Then there's the ribcage. How much air do you dare?
OK, this is pretty funny. I decided to shoot a little digital camera video of myself stylin' off one of the best whoops in the ribcage. I took two bits with the camera positioned too high, then re-set it and went for the final cut. If you can handle a ~9 MB download and you have a minute or two to burn, check out my crudely edited video here:
So, on that last one, it might look like I landed it fine. But I was too far forward. I could tell while I was in the air, and I stiff-armed the landing. The biff happened off-screen, and you get to listen to me commenting on the after-effect.
I'm OK by the way. Rung my bell just a bit and scratched myself. I'll live to make a fool of myself another day.
5 comments:
...........man.............ouch. That made Greg M. cry with laughter.
SWB
Doh!
Out wandering around again, eh?
Ed
That's pretty funny, glad you took the effort to record it for postarity. (Just like I was glad Slinker and Plesko were watching when I went OTB at Buff Creek last week)
Purvis!!! Why didn't you look me up??
oh, man!! its always funnier when left to the imagination. good luck in moab!!
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