Ziggy and The Bear 2015.07.11 Latergram, Pacific Crest Trail And off I go, leaving my adopted grandparents and the sweetest Pacific Crest Trail trail angels ever behind for the year. Ziggy and The Bear! They took incredible care of me and about 1500 PCT 2015 hikers this year. I’ll miss them so much. And it’s possible that due to the Lake Fire, many more future hikers will miss them, too. Look at a map, think about it. You can retrospectively support these guys by paypal’ing funds to whitewatertrailhouse@gmail.com. They’ve done tons for PCT hikers over the past 15 years and deserve big thanks (and help paying for those porta-potties!) Also, if you haven’t picked up your box there, get in touch. One of them smells really bad. 😜 Read more
Nailed It 2015.06.30 Latergram Sometimes when you feel like your day couldn’t be worse or your life any more strange, you look up on the mantle of an old family friend’s house you’re staying at and realize the terrifying painting there is you. This terrifying portrait is in fact of me on my pepère’s sailboat, in my rain gear, some 22 years ago. I will have nightmares. Read more
Barbie Doll Crotch 2015.05.05 Latergram, Pacific Crest Trail Shotput and I just spent about ten minutes laughing hysterically at this picture, mostly because of my Barbie Doll crotch or whatever. Read more
Mount Laguna Shreddin 2015.04.30 Bikes, Latergram Just before I did one of my famous slo-mo endos on a technical downhill section and pretty much destroyed my shin. Useless knee pads. Beer, beer, oxycodone, bed! But dude! The Noble Canyon trail is sick! Thanks Keith darling for being my MTB buddy for the week. Read more
Tomboy in Pink 2015.03.05 Latergram I bet when my mom got my third grade school photo, she almost wished there were two of me. Tomboy in pink! Read more
Washout 2014.08.26 Hiking, Latergram The infamous Eliot Creek crossing involves letting oneself down a loose gravel wall by rope, then once boulders are hopped over in the glacial creek, pulling oneself up by rope on the other side. Huge, enormous washouts. Definitely the most challenging crossing I’ve ever done. No sweat! Read more
Best Cat 2014.08.22 Latergram @lexinterior’s cat is the best therapy for frustrating van work. Him, and the woods. Off to walk the Timberline trail in a couple hours with Mr. Green! Stoked! Read more
Mt Shasta 2014.07.21 Latergram I’m hitching, listening to Judas Priest and thinking about Lemurians. (This hitch ended up changing my life for a while. Go figure.) Read more
Tortilla Joint 2014.04.21 Latergram Had to share this one with you. Apparently I’m an endless source of amusement for my hiker pals… Read more
Kearsarge 2013.06.20 Latergram, Pacific Crest Trail Holding up the sign at the top of Kearsarge Pass. I proceeded to climb over and down Glen pass… In the dark. Risky move. I fell a couple times. Read more
Billy Goat’s Cave 2013.04.25 Latergram, Pacific Crest Trail Me after a very comfy cozy nite in Billy Goat’s cave. Most other hikers are surprised I camped in there! But a storm came in and I had no shelter with me so I was hoping to fit in the cave. To get there and find it empty was a shock. All mine! Rain blew sideways to the entry, which had allowed sun to heat the floor all afternoon, so it was warm AND dry. Read more
Collarbone – 6 weeks, 5 days out 2012.09.29 Bikes, Nursing So this is my new right collarbone. I’m pretty happy — as happy as one can be, I guess — with the new shape. And I’m proud that I healed it myself, trusting nature to do its job (though that was tough sometimes). There are some fairly good resources online for people with broken collarbones wanting to know what to do. I really had no idea, and never went to the doctor, so I did a lot of Googling. I got the most (but not necessarily the best) information from these two websites: – Pinkbike broken collarbone recovery time Of course that’s the first thing people want to know. How long will I endure this hell? – John’s Clavicle Page Lay expert-ish, though a bit pro-surgery. Some […] Read more
Circulus 2011.07.24 Bikes Ugh. So hung over. Last night was a bit crazy. I finally got to ride the Circulus. Not just ride it, but race it. Yeah, I went straight from test-riding it (crash!) to organizing a spontaneous women’s race (thanks to Stevil and Murph), to winning said race (crash!). Racers were not allowed to drink, but since I wasn’t a racer until I set up the impromptu race (6 women volunteered, I think), there was by then a lot of beer in my system. So of course I ate shit. And it was captured on video. That’s me handily catching up to my opponent and crashing as soon as the win bell is rung. Good fun. More about all that here: http://bikeportland.org/2011/07/25/circulus-provides-thrills-for-racers-spectators-alike-56750 And this great video about the […] Read more
This is Cyclocross 2007.11.18 Bikes That’s what I’m talking about! I’m still coming down off the caffeine I guzzled before the race today, think: “mud” down the hatch then mud up to your shins. Epic. Painful. My feet were so cold it felt like I was running on stumps. Gross! But I felt fast, and I passed a few boys who started two minutes ahead of me in the Men’s B race. One whimpered, “You won’t laugh at me if I puke, will you?” My bike clothes have been through three rinses in the bathtub and still excrete opaque mud water. I love mud and cold, and for me that’s what cyclocross is all about. Great times! Read more