Someday I'll learn

Someday I'll learn that deer trails are not meant to be followed.
This morning I went running, in search of a trail between Rock Canyon and Provo Canyon. I discovered that the trail begins to both disappear and fragment shortly after crossing some barb wire. I'm not sure if I was trespassing or not, but anyways, the trails started going up and all over, and intersecting, and after trying all of them, I decided to head back on the highest one I could find - which turned into a deer trail. Which then disappeared, leaving me 100 vertical meters (and who knows how many horizontal) from the nearest trail. It took a while to get home.

Oh - and congratulations to Jared and Becky Shaver on the birth of their 2nd boy!

This American Life

I just watched This American Life, a sweet new documentary series running on Showtime. Pretty dang sweet show, definitely different, but I highly recommend it. I'm hoping they continue to place new episodes on the web... found via Pop Candy.

Interesting Article

While I obviously can't relate at all to this man's experiences, I understand very well what it feels like to no longer be in the excitement of war. Read me.

The White Rim Trail

So this weekend I went to Moab with some friends to do the White Rim Trail around Canyonlands National Park. It was incredible.

To start off, we had a 20 mile detour, kinda messing up our plans on where to camp, and how long we'd have to ride the next day. What made it even worse was the ranger giving no indication that it was a 20 mile detour - he acted like it was just a simple little change. 20 miles on a mountain bike is a BIG change.

Anyway, we eventually got to a camp, spent the night, then rode the rest of the trail the next day. We did about 50 miles each day.

Here's a picture of me after I wrecked and turned my arm into hamburger.


And here's a pic of us at the 'finish line'. Beyond myself it was Kirk Coombs, T-Rav, and Shannon riding, with Kelly and Michelle driving my truck as the support vehicle.



An inspiring adventure.

Where did Ryan go?

So I haven't posted in a long time. Basically, it's because I felt like nothing super special was happening in my life - like I'm just going from day to day trying to find something exciting to do.

But there are a few things to report:
- I took the hardest snowboarding hit of my life last night. It involved a chest slam into a mogul, bouncing in the air, followed by a head slam into the next mogul. Basically ended my night.
- I'm now an official member of the USBA (United States Boxing Association). We'll see if I ever cowboy up enough to do a fight.

I'll be better about posting.