On Sunday we went out to Alpenrose to do a Cross Crusade race. Matt and I rode in the beginner race where I came very close to dead last, Matt got 45th(ish). I blame it on my bike. Ingrid rode w/ the women and did really well.

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Last weekend we went down to Smith to get in a bit of climbing and watch Keevin, Dan and Matt work on Chain Reaction (5.12c). Ingrid and I did Snuffy Smith (5.9) and called it done so we could watch Chain Reaction.

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Last Sunday we went to watch Matt do his first cyclecross race. It looked pretty badass. He got 13th out of like 40 which was pretty good. It looked like enough fun that Ingrid and I are going to do it next weekend. Ingrid will use his bike and I'll convert my old mountain bike to a single speed and give it a whirl

I got two videos of Matt riding. Hopefully you can hear the little girl who was cheering everyone on.video 1  video 2

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On Saturday Mom & Dad came over to put up new gutters on the West side of my house. The old ones were Mickey Mouse and would just funnel the water to one part and waterfall from there. The new ones look pretty nice.

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Last Friday was Ingrid's 27th birthday. We went out to Mexican on Alberta St. and then out for a few drinks across the street. The next day we rolled down to Bend to bike on Phil's Trail and the Whoop-De-Doos. Kellie put us all to shame.

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After my boot issue I thought I'd write to the wigwam people as their socks helped me get out without sore feet. On their site they put up my email and pictures, just scroll down to June.

Last week I went over to Wyoming via City Of Rocks, Idaho, to climb the Grand via the Upper Exum (5.4 II). While the weather and other things made us not climb the Grand, we had a good time at City Of Rocks and hiking and scrambling in the Tetons. We also took a trip up to Yellowstone to check out the springs.

City of Rocks

City of Rocks, Idaho.

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I've been sending out google maps to Ingrid and Matt for our rides to show where I thought we should go. It has a nice mileage calculator to give us an idea of how much we're in for. This is today's ride(ish).
View Larger Map

While at Smith, Ingrid and I played around with my Yashica and took some night shots. I had forgotten my cable release so that limited our options, but some of them came out cool anyways.

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Last weekend we went over to Smith Rock and climbed on Spiderman. I freaked out at the crux, again, when my feet blew and I was hanging by my hands above my gear. So that sucked. After Ingrid and I got to the top, I rapped down to take pictures of Matt and Jeremy pulling the roof. That was badass and made up for the cruxy screaming and swearing.

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