Hard Core Mountain Biking!

Okay... it might not be that hard core, but we went on a fun trail today. Chris and I (since Julie ditched us to go do some cattle rounding up on horseback at her roommates -- I would have ditched too) anyways, Chris and I went up towards Island Park and mountain biked today. It was really fun.

A friend at work recommended trails to me. So thats what we started out doing. What we didn't know was that the trails marked "easy" on the map were more like dirt roads... It was still fun, but there were A LOT of cows all over the road, and some of them did NOT want to move.

We passed a whole ton of them at one point. 3 or 4 were right in our way, but they ran off after a little coxing. After we got passed them we came to a fork in the path, so we stopped to see where to go. Then ALL OF THE SUDDEN all the cows decided to run right at us! I was freaking out, ready to ride outta there with or without Chris. He kept telling me to take a picture, yeah right! I didn't want to get trampled! They stopped right at the fork in the trail (we had moved by then) and I got a picture. There was like 20x's what the picture shows of cows... and imagine them all running right for you. I think most people would be terrified.

This was the lake that Julie went to in her mountain biking class. While waiting for the class to catch up she decided to take a swim. The teacher got there and said "Julie! Get out of there! Thats a bird sanctuary!"

On our round about way of getting over to the mountainous trails we had to go through some cattle fences. This one had a gate and a fence we had to take down. I felt just like the people on the Australian show I watch with the Greens when I stay with them in Pocatello.

We finally made it to the real trail riding. It doesn't get more intense than Heart Attack Hill! We were glad when we made it to the top. It was a STEEP ride. Going down always goes by too fast.

Chris had to get to work. So we took some back road instead of the trails back through the park. Chris threw the bikes over the fence and we were outta there.

Last week we went on an easy Sunday ride, we still had the bikes from the ride I went on with Julie. We went out by the BYU-Idaho livestock center and found a little trail to ride on. Chris had the most fun off the trail however.

This picture doesn't do this ledge justice. That thing was a monster. Here's Chris wheeling to get up it.