Mt. Snow dreamin'

Ahh the simple pleasures of migrating north in the summer. Slightly cooler temperatures, lots of biting bugs, time alone in a tent, and some damn good bike racing. That's right folks, Last weekend after picking Ms. Geology up at her home in the wilds of New York, we headed north to the land of big time ski resorts and big time racing. Mt. Snow, that is.

This year, being a Kenda Cup East and Pro XCT race, the newly renamed Mt. Snow Shootout showcased the fastest racers North America has to offer. The pro fields were stocked with names like Canadian National Champs Kabush and Pendrel (both fresh of World Cup wins in Bromont), US National Champs JHK and Irmiger, and pretty much everyone else who's fast. So it made for an interesting weekend of spectating. Watching Kabush ride away to back-to-back XC and STXC wins was amazing. JHK's national championship kit and matching bikes were amazing. Probably the best national champ kit I've seen yet, excepting maybe Tim Johnson's CX kit from last year. In fact, even though I raced myself into the top 10 (well into 10th at least) in the Cat. 1 races, I had much more fun tromping around the woods and the short track course spectating with Ms. Geology. Oh, and Jeff Lenosky's trials show was pretty damn cool as well.

Waiting


Rolling through to start lap 2


JHK and his sick new kit and matching Superfly 100 (drool... want... want... drool...)