vermont+north carolina

vermont drive was complete crap. i offically hate driving now. the DH course was like nothing i have ever rode in my life time. all mud, and rocks that you couldn't even see. plus the fastest course on the circut added for some scary but exciting times. i never got comfortable during practice so my race run was just a crappy practice run. and i ended up coming in 4th place. so im pretty mad about that finish. but atleast my good friend JD won!

slalom was fun, a short, fun course, plus a walking lift made for killer racing and riding. i got super lucky cause everyone i raced was having chain problems, and ended up second.

COLE BANGERT PRO DH NATIONAL CHAMP! SICK!


then we loaded up again and headed down south for north carolina. this is probly one of the best courses on the whole national series. fast, technical, and all around a fun course. but the chair lift was super slow and killed the riding buzz! for the DH race day i was feeling super good and knew i had this one on lock. but as we headed up for race run it started raining and making everything wet and slick. my race run was going nearly perfect when i went into a creek crossing and hit a rock and went over the bars, then had to turn my bike around run up a muddy slick hill, and proceed to pedel my bike into a flat muddy section while in the hardest gear. i finished 3rd with a 4:15, second had a 4:13, and first had a 4:06. my fall was atleast a 10 to 15 second fall and possibly 20 seconds. so had i stayed on my bike. i feel i could of won by a good margin. but i didnt and thats racing.

slalom was a super fun course long too. times around 40 seconds. i qualified 3rd and went on to get second place. taylor calvert won.

now were back in colorado and we have a weekend off before snowmass finals. im gonna train my ass off and hopefully take the win for the finals.

plus i turned my world championship petition in and it looked really good! the team will be announced next week!

more driving

well its been sort of a long time since i did a post. we have been racing every weekend. nothing big at all but a lot of fun still. since last friday we have been in aspen at the snowmass resort for a MSC race. but the new electronic chip timing is complete crap. everyone who raced still doesnt have a time. so i have no clue on how i did. tyler mccaul missed his flight back home and left this morning at 7. now were packing up and getting ready to leave for vermont. another long drive. seems like ive done a lot of that recently. but now that wes and kyle left we picked up ryan anderson to come with us. kyle is the most unreliable piece of do-do ever. i gave up on him. wes, he's still cool though. so vermont will be fun hopefully. im probly gonna be scared of the course. but oh well, it'll only make me stronger!

Blowin' S#!t up!!!

4th of july was super sick!
we just waited til it got dark and then went off. roman candle fights and lots of firecrackers. we did a lot of cool and tricky things too. not to many things caught on fire. and a few burns and a lot of money later, it ended up being a cool night.
tomorrow morning were off to crankworks colorado. fun fun funn!

canada was awesome. me and kyle shredded the rest of the mountain and iu learned a whole bunch about riding roots and mud. it was so rad. not to mention the world cup after parties. that was the best party i have ever been to. i arrived at 8:30 at night and didnt go back to the room til 7:30 in the morning. plus i got in for free since i judged the dirt jump competition. it was so fun to party with all my idols like hill, strobel, riffle, rennie, neethling brothers, peat, faircloth, blenkinsop and everyone else. i had a killer time and got LOOSE. haha. the drive home sucked. 1 day and seventeen hours. but we went to hanks dads house in denver colorado and have stayed there since. he's a gnarly military guy but also super nice.
this weekend we went to keystone colorado to do a little local race. i didnt race dh the first day cause i thught the course sucked plus i flatted. but i did race my first super D race and missed my start time by a minute but made it up and got second place. stoked on that. in dh today i missed my start time had to go with sport men. cought 4 guys in my race run and got 4th. oh well i still had fun! the picture is from today. from Wes Pracht. mtbphoto.com