[oly]

Back from another great hood event. I made 2 of 3 goals.

1. Do the "big stupid" ladder drop -done*
2. DO the double log step down in the trees -dont
3. break 5:15 -failed.

*I rolled the off big stupid and stuck the landing, but in the exit I wrecked bad. Pinballing off padded rocks into non padded rocks. After i stopped shaking i got roling again and sat at the log drop. Wasnt going to do it, especially after a bad fall. But watching people do it I said what the hell, i survived tha last one... So I hiked up and just went for it. LAnded parfect. It took me 2 more times off the big ladder drop to realize speed wasnt called for. Slow and low, and each time the double drop was good.

On to #3... FIrst run everything clean, but not the fastest where i knew i shoulda been. Time 5:24 (10 sec faster than my previous best run). Run 2 went into cannonball much faster, but chose the wrong line on the exit, and got sucked ointo a rocky channel. BANG, BANG, BANG..... made it to the gravel corner to fell my rear end washing out. F@#K.... Pinch flat. I was out, and instead of getting in peoles way i just gave in and went down another trail. GOod thing it wasnt combined times today. I still made 8th place after being 6th in run 1.

All in all it was a great day. Lots of pros fighting for the cash, and tootricky got his first po-deum in semi-poo. COngrats!

Joy, hope your knees ok.......

 

[Toshi]

what is this "double drop", d?

 

[ioscope]

Good to hear you had fun! YOu should be running stans though! I think I might try ghetto tubeless. I am too poor to throw down for stans.

 

[Snacks]

Yes Good Times! Congrats to everyone

 

[Slider]

Good to hear you had fun! YOu should be running stans though! I think I might try ghetto tubeless. I am too poor to throw down for stans.[/Q]

before check this out this something you might be interested in

 

[oly]

Toshi,

The Double is a 2 logs about 6' apart, and about 4' down. Pretty easy today, not so in the mud, so the last 2 races i just rolled it. Today was ultra dry and solid. The landing has a real nice tranny that leads onto a wide and short bridge, that then goes right into a sweet berm and root section... that i carry ALOT of monetum into since im a big guy.....

Its a real fun trail, but im not sure if its open to the public on non race weekends... i think you can poach it..... shhhhhh

 

[oly]

Good to hear you had fun! YOu should be running stans though! I think I might try ghetto tubeless. I am too poor to throw down for stans.

I had stans, but last race i encountered a root that sliced my sidewall. So i borrowed a tube. It was just bad luck getting of line. Next time i'll be more aware and fight to stay clear of that rocky rut.

 

[buildyourown]

Yeah, my race runs blew but I had a great time in practice. Maybe next time I should practice the parts of the trail that I'm not already good at

 

[MUTOLI]

Good time this weekend, other then blowing my knee out. I went to the doc today and have to go get an MRI this week. Hopefully I didn't re-injure anything...concidering I've already had 2 surgeries on the same knee. However, I did well on my first race run making me the fastest girl and winning money!!! Thanks goodness it was best of 2 runs Crashing sucks! Thanks EvilBob for helping me out and catching it all on video, and Buildyourown for scoring me the bag ice!!! Also thanks Trailhacker and Snacks for helping me too and driving me to and from the race!!!

 

[Tootrikky]

Fun Fun Fun.

What's up with all the monkeys who played hookie?
1.Awesome course
2.Lift access
3.Cash payout
4.Easy Drive (compared to WIM races for us Puget Sound monkeys)
5. Keg

What's the Dealio???????? :angry:

 

[Skookum]

I went to the doc today and have to go get an MRI this week.

Here's to hopin you got no big tears in there.

Congrats on the win.

Sounds like a good time was had by many, Oly you need to have someone hold a taco for you at the bottom, you'll do alot better. :evil:

 

[Five]

Good time this weekend, other then blowing my knee out. I went to the doc today and have to go get an MRI this week. Hopefully I didn't re-injure anything...concidering I've already had 2 surgeries on the same knee. However, I did well on my first race run making me the fastest girl and winning money!!! Thanks goodness it was best of 2 runs Crashing sucks! Thanks EvilBob for helping me out and catching it all on video, and Buildyourown for scoring me the bag ice!!! Also thanks Trailhacker and Snacks for helping me too and driving me to and from the race!!!

Hope it's not too bad - we don't need another PNW rider down.

 

[oly]

Here's to hopin you got no big tears in there.

Congrats on the win.

Sounds like a good time was had by many, Oly you need to have someone hold a taco for you at the bottom, you'll do alot better. :evil:

Maybe you can fashion a helmet with a taco held out in front of me on a fishing pole and string. That way I will think iabout pedal faster so i can get the taco......

 

[oly]

Fun Fun Fun.

What's up with all the monkeys who played hookie?
1.Awesome course
2.Lift access
3.Cash payout
4.Easy Drive (compared to WIM races for us Puget Sound monkeys)
5. Keg

What's the Dealio???????? :angry:

Exactly. With all that WIM stuff this spring where are all those who swore off that series? Whistlers fun and all, but why not put you money where your mouth is and come race a sweet grassroots even.... or dont, more beer for me and toots.

 

[Snacks]

Fun Fun Fun.

What's up with all the monkeys who played hookie?
1.Awesome course
2.Lift access
3.Cash payout
4.Easy Drive (compared to WIM races for us Puget Sound monkeys)
5. Keg

What's the Dealio???????? :angry:

6.Watching you put your tent up!

 

[freeridekid]

does anybody have pics of the big stupid?

 

[buildyourown]

6.Watching you put your tent up!

Bwahahahha!!

I can just imagine you sneaking video of it and dubbing porno music over it.


And the sun deck drop is now officially known as "The Big Stupid"

 

[oly]

does anybody have pics of the big stupid?

www.whitcombphoto.photoreflect.com look for his hood gallery. the rock drop to ladder is what the locals called "big stupid".

edit... i did your homework....

http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?eventthumbs?event=0CV3000901&b=0&t=-1&start=0&password=

 

[Slider]

Good time this weekend, other then blowing my knee out. I went to the doc today and have to go get an MRI this week. Hopefully I didn't re-injure anything...concidering I've already had 2 surgeries on the same knee. However, I did well on my first race run making me the fastest girl and winning money!!! Thanks goodness it was best of 2 runs Crashing sucks! Thanks EvilBob for helping me out and catching it all on video, and Buildyourown for scoring me the bag ice!!! Also thanks Trailhacker and Snacks for helping me too and driving me to and from the race!!!

EVERYONE DO A NO SURGERY DANCE. Hope you are alright injury sucks

the botom of the course looks cool any footage

 

[freeridekid]

thanks for finding the pics, but what is so gnarly about that? its like maybe a 3 foot drop w/ nothing to clear....the rock to ladder at beacon seems a lot sketchier, and that is easy (not to say that i never completely overshot it or anything)

 

[buildyourown]

thanks for finding the pics, but what is so gnarly about that? its like maybe a 3 foot drop w/ nothing to clear....the rock to ladder at beacon seems a lot sketchier, and that is easy (not to say that i never completely overshot it or anything)

The drop itself is cake. It's the 2 truck sized rocks that you have to thread through right after you land. The landing was covered with sand/pea gravel. If you braked, your rear wheel would slide out just a bit and tag the rock.
It really wasn't that hard. You just had to make sure you where going slow enough that you could make the turn without grabbing a handful of brake.

 

[MUTOLI]

6.Watching you put your tent up!

Oh, that was classic...Where's the pic Snacks!

 

[oly]

The drop itself is cake. It's the 2 truck sized rocks that you have to thread through right after you land. The landing was covered with sand/pea gravel. If you braked, your rear wheel would slide out just a bit and tag the rock.
It really wasn't that hard. You just had to make sure you where going slow enough that you could make the turn without grabbing a handful of brake.

Also between the big rocks was a bunch of other smaller rocks, and one huge boulder to right that my ribs found. Good thing I wear upper armor.

I made an overview in CADDE V2.5 now with coulorz.

 

[Snacks]

Also between the big rocks was a bunch of other smaller rocks, and one huge boulder to right that my ribs found. Good thing I wear upper armor.

I made an overview in CADDE V2.5 now with coulorz.

I think there was a tree somewhere after the top rock w/yellow crash pad that forced you to 'make' the left turn

 

[ggrubb]

....the rock to ladder at beacon seems a lot sketchier,

It's more like the Schlayer drop/ramp, except with big giant rocks at the bottom of the ramp. Also, it's not exactly easy to make the corner to get on the ladder in the first place. Oly's drawing is dead-on.

P.S. the rock-to-ladder at beacon isnt a drop.

I'll get some vid up soon.

 

[MUTOLI]

Also between the big rocks was a bunch of other smaller rocks, and one huge boulder to right that my ribs found. Good thing I wear upper armor.

I made an overview in CADDE V2.5 now with coulorz.

Good drawing. You forgot the huge rock that sits next to the go around ladder! You know, the one I went face first into on Saturday!

 

[oly]

I'll get some vid up soon.

Did you get me off the drop? I saw ya there as i came through.....

 

[Snacks]

Did you get me off the drop? I saw ya there as i came through.....

Is it all about you?


Did you get one of DY in his skin suit? :heart:

 

[ggrubb]

Did you get me off the drop? I saw ya there as i came through.....

I just dumped the video last night. I'll try to go through it and check, but more than likely I did. I shot the first run up by the drop and just above on the rought straight away, somewhere up there on the first run. The second run, I was shooting in the trees.

Yah, I got some of the DY's skin suit, couldnt miss it while reviewing.

 

[oly]

Is it all about you?

Your just mad i wasnt talking about you......


here ya go....

SNACKS, SNACKS, SNACKS,......


you happy?

 

[evilbob]

Good time this weekend, other then blowing my knee out. I went to the doc today and have to go get an MRI this week. Hopefully I didn't re-injure anything...concidering I've already had 2 surgeries on the same knee. However, I did well on my first race run making me the fastest girl and winning money!!! Thanks goodness it was best of 2 runs Crashing sucks! Thanks EvilBob for helping me out and catching it all on video, and Buildyourown for scoring me the bag ice!!! Also thanks Trailhacker and Snacks for helping me too and driving me to and from the race!!!

Girly....you are tough, that crash was painful to watch and hear but you almost made it and you were movin right up to that point. Congrats on the cash you deserve it.....especialy after trying to move that rock with your cheek during practice on Sat.

 

[MUTOLI]

Girly....you are tough, that crash was painful to watch and hear but you almost made it and you were movin right up to that point. Congrats on the cash you deserve it.....especialy after trying to move that rock with your cheek during practice on Sat.

yeah, if I wasn't wearing my goggles on the face shot Saturday...who knows what could have happend!

 

[DH Diva]

yeah, if I wasn't wearing my goggles on the face shot Saturday...who knows what could have happend!

Sorry to hear you wrecked your knee. Where did you crash?? It sounds like it was a sight.

 

[MUTOLI]

Sorry to hear you wrecked your knee. Where did you crash?? It sounds like it was a sight.

Which time?! I had two pretty bad crashes. The face shot was in the rock section by the ladder drop. The knee blow out was in the wood section on one of the steep shoots with a burm (I know...which one! There are many of them). I hit the burm too fast and my bike slammed into a stump after the burm, and I flew over the edge falling about 5 feet until my left foot landed and all the weight and force caused my knee to buckle!

 

[DH Diva]

Which time?! I had two pretty bad crashes. The face shot was in the rock section by the ladder drop. The knee blow out was in the wood section on one of the steep shoots with a burm (I know...which one! There are many of them). I hit he burm too fast and my bike slammed into a stump after the burm, and I flew over the edge falling about 5 feet until my left foot landed and all the weight and force caused my knee to buckle!

Sadly enough, I've raced at hood so long I think I know which chute to berm you're talking about! There are so many places on that course to seriously eat it. I have seen so many people end up in the boulders after the ladder (me being one of them). I hope the knee is okay and no surgery is necessary. Keep us posted and heal up! Hey are you guys going to hit up willamette again this year?? I should head up there or to the next hood race and visit all my race buddies!

 

[Snacks]

It was a tuff weekend for crashing

D took a nice digger on his love handles, Kevin crashed on the ridge trail, and Bob went OTB and dislocated his shoulder!

All you guys (and girl ) are some troopers!

 

[evilbob]

It was a tuff weekend for crashing

D took a nice digger on his love handles, Kevin crashed on the ridge trail, and Bob went OTB and dislocated his shoulder!

All you guys (and girl ) are some troopers!

0 for 2 that mountain owes me a good race weekend. Up to this point Mt Hood owns me :angry: but all in all I have fun going down there every time. The course is awesome but very unforgiving. Your hands get punished and your done. I think the rocks are alive there and they are evil and mean..... :evil:

 

[MUTOLI]

0 for 2 that mountain owes me a good race weekend. Up to this point Mt Hood owns me :angry: but all in all I have fun going down there every time. The course is awesome but very unforgiving. Your hands get punished and your done. I think the rocks are alive there and they are evil and mean..... :evil:

Man...that sucks Evilbob! I still can't believe you were able to run out of most of your crashes. That takes some true talent.

 

[MUTOLI]

Sadly enough, I've raced at hood so long I think I know which chute to berm you're talking about! There are so many places on that course to seriously eat it. I have seen so many people end up in the boulders after the ladder (me being one of them). I hope the knee is okay and no surgery is necessary. Keep us posted and heal up! Hey are you guys going to hit up willamette again this year?? I should head up there or to the next hood race and visit all my race buddies!

Probably won't hit Willamette...but not sure yet. We are trying to hit the rest of the BC Cups. Sun Peaks is the same weekend as Willamette. I guess it all depends on my knee too...I may not get to do any more races this season!!!

 

[oly]

Love handles?? More like platforms......