Siren Mary, Brendan, and Matt stopped by for a bit yesterday. They are on their way to Banff for Mary’s start to Tour Divide. Mary looks so good!!! Calm, strong, witty, she’s in a great space leading to this most epic of epics. We talked strategy and equipment…they even pulled her bike...

Smith Mesa was the object of our tires today. Not very technical, good thing cause you can’t keep yer eyes on the trail. Plenty steep though. Rumors of ejector seats and flying monkeys abound behind these signs. We sure wanted to explore…but resisted. These signs really pull ya in don’t...

North and a bit west of St George is a range of mountains snuggled up against the Nevada border.  They haven’t hit my radar at all yet ’cause they don’t lie between here and St George, not even by way of my jagged thinking.  I’ve put the trans utah obsession on...