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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
VIRGIN UTAH part 1
If you want to prove yourself as a mountain biker as far as I'm concerned there is nowhere that compares to Virgin Utah. The place is the home to the Rampage and for good reason. As proven by Where the Trail Ends, there is nowhere that offers such perfect terrain to push yourself and depending on your skill level what is possible on a bike. So some friends and I decided going there for 5 days would be a fun idea.
After a long drive that honestly wasn't that horrible due to constantly changing scenery Kent and I finally made it to Utah and met up with Will Sharninghausen and his homie Treven. The next day we went out to the old rampage site. It was pissing rain the first day,but we didnt care. The excitement was at an all time high. The first thing we did was hike around and just take in the vastness of the zone. After hiking around and checking things out it was time to bust out the bikes and start riding. Rain is a good thing because it makes the dirt amazing, however too much rain turns the dirt into spinning clay. We hit what we could for the conditions and decided to call riding early because hitting big stuff with 5+/-lbs of mud on your tires is sketch. It resulted in me doing a nice ronnie mac impression in front of Cam McCaul hahaha.
After calling it on the riding, we decided to go make a line to ride. It took about 4 hours of digging and we had a line that looked pretty fun. Granted it was an incredibly pussy line compared to what goes on at rampage, it was still a fun experience to go build a line. We left it and decided pack it the next day when the dirt wasn't sculpting clay.
On day two we started with messing around riding, then went to pack the line in. After packing the line in we went back to do some more riding. While riding we ran into Antoine Bizet and Nick Pescetto. They asked us if we wanted to go do a shuttle run. Sure, why not we though. Once we found out what we where going to ride, stoke turned to fear. We where going to do a run down king kong, a trail built by Josh Bender. To put it mildly, king kong is the scariest shit iv'e ever ridden. Ill admit I pussied out on one drop, but it wasn't even the gnarliest so I don't really care. I'll let this helmet cam of lecondeguy tell the rest of the story, my go pro died halfway down it. All im saying is riding down that trail is my biggest accomplishment in biking so far.
Lacondeguy full run KING KONG from Andreu Lacondeguy on Vimeo.
After a long drive that honestly wasn't that horrible due to constantly changing scenery Kent and I finally made it to Utah and met up with Will Sharninghausen and his homie Treven. The next day we went out to the old rampage site. It was pissing rain the first day,but we didnt care. The excitement was at an all time high. The first thing we did was hike around and just take in the vastness of the zone. After hiking around and checking things out it was time to bust out the bikes and start riding. Rain is a good thing because it makes the dirt amazing, however too much rain turns the dirt into spinning clay. We hit what we could for the conditions and decided to call riding early because hitting big stuff with 5+/-lbs of mud on your tires is sketch. It resulted in me doing a nice ronnie mac impression in front of Cam McCaul hahaha.
After calling it on the riding, we decided to go make a line to ride. It took about 4 hours of digging and we had a line that looked pretty fun. Granted it was an incredibly pussy line compared to what goes on at rampage, it was still a fun experience to go build a line. We left it and decided pack it the next day when the dirt wasn't sculpting clay.
On day two we started with messing around riding, then went to pack the line in. After packing the line in we went back to do some more riding. While riding we ran into Antoine Bizet and Nick Pescetto. They asked us if we wanted to go do a shuttle run. Sure, why not we though. Once we found out what we where going to ride, stoke turned to fear. We where going to do a run down king kong, a trail built by Josh Bender. To put it mildly, king kong is the scariest shit iv'e ever ridden. Ill admit I pussied out on one drop, but it wasn't even the gnarliest so I don't really care. I'll let this helmet cam of lecondeguy tell the rest of the story, my go pro died halfway down it. All im saying is riding down that trail is my biggest accomplishment in biking so far.
Lacondeguy full run KING KONG from Andreu Lacondeguy on Vimeo.
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