The Great Vernal Trifecta

Mike and his friends have this rule about their adventure weekends: there has to be at least three sports participated in each time! They call it a trifecta. So we drove to Vernal and camped on Friday night.

Activity 1: A short mountain bike ride on the Jazz trail. Where my bike really started to act up so we took it into a shop back in Vernal for a quick fix.

Activity 2: Float the Green River for 8 miles from Flaming Gorge dam. I started out in a one-person inflatable kayak, but then Mike wanted me to try his pack raft - which was a riot of fun!

Activity 3: We mountain biked again except this time on a 20-miler trail called Flume Trail. Crazy, huh? That Utah also has a Flume Trail. That was a long and rocky trail, but it was fun!

Activity 4: Go on an 8 mile hike along Jones Creek so Mike and his friend, Dave, could fly fish while I laid in a hammock and read my book. That was lovely too. :)

We got home at 2 o'clock in the morning, Sunday night. Very long and very full weekend!

Little Red Riding Hood 2013

Teri and I did it again! I think for the fourth year in a row now.... 100 miles on our road bikes with a bunch of my friends: Kendra, Katie, Janie, and Dorothy. This year we hauled! - with Kendra pulling again. I think we finished it in 6 hours.

Tahoe for Memorial Day

I talked Mike into taking a road trip over Memorial Day weekend even though he hates traveling on big travel weekends. Memorial Day weekend happened to be the weekend of his sister's birthday so he thought it would be fun to go to Lake Tahoe (which is near where she lives) to play and to visit his sister and her family. We packed up our mountain bikes, hiking clothes, and a birthday party in a bag/box and drove the 10ish hours to Lake Tahoe.

We mountain biked around South Lake Tahoe Saturday morning before hooking up with Christine and her family (that's Mike's sister). We tried to surprise her on the bike trail, but we found out she already figured out we were coming since her husband had been acting too strangely what with trying to get everyone to clean the house before going for a bike ride... ha ha! We had pizza and the party. Sunday we hiked Horse Tail Falls before going to church with Christine and family. Then we had a BBQ.

And then Monday was the amazing and famed Flume Trail - in very cold weather! We loved it. And we took a lot of pictures. :)

Moab Craziness with Jenn

I was itching to get out of dodge and desperate enough to go with just Jenn so we took off to Moab for a quick weekend. We slept in the back of Ruby (my Subaru Outback). Jenn did a very strange mountain bike race, and then we rode the famed Slickrock trail. We had a blast! And we got along great! .... as long as Jenn kept her sticky, messy, smelly stuff on her side of the car. That rule was made after Jenn packed a spray bottle of chain cleaner in the bottom of her bag and it leaked all over her stuff on her side. So I think it was a legitimate rule! Ha ha!

Epic MTB Ride: Three Forks Loop

Mike and I, and my friend, Jenn, and Mike's friend, Dave, went for an epic mountain bike ride on the Three Forks Loop in Diamond Fork Canyon. 17 miles. 2,442 feet of climbing. 2.5 hours of actual ride time. 1,700 calories burned!! :) It was a blast.  And then we stuffed ourselves with Two Jacks pizza and cheese sticks. Mike calls that hammering and pampering. Ha! (We didn't really get any pics of Dave since he was so far ahead of us the whole time.)

Me with Mike in the distance

Me and Mike

Jenn - doing her classic pose. goofball.

Mike

Meet my EMPA Class Teammates

So after three years of attending class with these jokers, my time of going to class has come to an end. To celebrate, we went to In-n-Out for dinner on the way home and I took this picture so I can remember them forever! Good, good people. Fun too - hence the "jokers" comment.

Left to right: Josh, Chris, Daniel, Eric, me, and Wendy

A Little Spring Repelling

Lindsey and Rob wanted to meet Mike so we planned a little double date of repelling at the Red Ledges in Diamond Fork Canyon. We had a blast. And Lindsey really liked Mike. And.... that means I have pictures of Mike to share! :)

Me and Mike

Rob at the top of the repel

Mike going over

Lindsey and Rob

Mike and me