Shirty euro dance party

We have a condo right on the edge of the venue playing shitty euro techno at full volume until 3 am. Quebec is as close to Europe as you can get on the continent, and it's a good reminder how much Europe sucks.

Mont Sainte Anne locs hanging around in a circle outside the hotel. Party.

The real Mont Sainte Anne, trackside during the race:

Locs. 

The saddest looking ham and cheese crepe ever seen. Life is hard, and traveling the world is distilled suffering:

As if we needed more proof that Canada sucks. 

A more in depth breakdown of my qualifying run

Quebec City

I saw Nathan Riddle at the crepe place we went to. 

Mont Sainte Anne race report, post-qualifying

I suck. 

Mont Sainte Anne: two days old

It's the straightest track ever. It just goes straight down the hill. We're going to be going a million mph tomorrow.

Valmont, travel, and Mont Sainte Anne

Van life: Angel Fire

Course hike find. 

Kevin Aiello winning at bar height and wheelbase. Measured his wheelbase on his 650b KHS at 50.8" axle to axle. That's pretty long. 

Uncle D, your 2012 two-time almost National Champion in downhill and slalom. Two weeks from now: Masters World Champs in Pietermaritzburg.

Sunday night text mex:

Bob: "what was your favorite part of the weekend?"

Chaz: "making Jill uncomfortable right now."

METAL MONDAY!

Van life: 5 day old update

Deer Valley to Moab to Taos. Angel Fire awaits. I rode a 29er today and it didn't suck. Kinda.

Deer Valley, Utah. Some of the trails really suck, some of them suck a little less. The old NCS course is the one amazing trail there, and it's still as real as it gets. Pure death the whole way down, the way downhill was meant to be before all the girls took over and paved everything. 

It was awesome, because we were there for an IMBA event, and all the crappy trails had horrible, awkward IMBA-spec 180 degree, 3-foot radius switchbacks every 10 seconds. I assume the IMBA people felt right at home. 

The dream of the nineties is alive in Moab. 

RV camouflage. 

Honda RN01 sighting in Taos. I thought they all got crushed, but Greg Minnaar won the World Cup at Angel Fire in '05, so I guess the winning bike got left behind as a gift. Crazy. 

Bikes.