http://ogrehut.com Mountain Biking Northern California Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:14:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today and Yesterday are my best days since getting home from surgery and pain is continuing to be less an issue. It's still plenty of work moving around and if I move wrong the pain ramps up quite a bit. My appetite has returned but I'm trying ... http://ogrehut.com/20090628/recovery-progress My days seem to be broken up into little chunks. For a while I'm feeling nearly ok. Then I'll use the bathroom or just pass out asleep and then feel horrible for a bit. Sometimes sitting at my laptop, I'll be IMing folks and just drift off in ... http://ogrehut.com/20090626/more-ramblings-on-the-road-to-wellness Last week someone offered me free entry into a race near Clearlake, CA at a great park called Boggs. I'd been thinking of going to the race and getting the free entry sort of tipped me over the edge. The race is a 24 hour endurance race.  I ... http://ogrehut.com/20090623/boggs-ramblings-and-post-mortem Had a great ride today... a friend took me to a place called Pipi Valley east of Jackson. It's an OHV park but we had lots of fun. There was plenty of mud, a few creek crossings and Bruce broke his rear derailer. Overall not a bad ... http://ogrehut.com/20090509/pipi-valley-ohv-trails-for-mtbers As I pushed my bike up a steep section of 2" deep sloppy mud, I couldn't help but think "What kind of an idiot rides in crap like this in the middle of the night?" Then the inescapable thought bubbled to the surface "What kind of idiot composes blog ... http://ogrehut.com/20090503/the-coolest-24-wettest-22-hour-race When you are putting the cleats on your shoes make sure you use the correct sized bolts. My shoes came with two screwes and I inadvertently put the longer screws in which poked into the bottom of my feet. I didn't walk much on them so it wasn't ... http://ogrehut.com/20090129/a-stupid-tech-tip Sonora to Mt ElizabethWow... I've let things slide again. Things are a little crazy right now, my company lost the contract I was working on and they didn't have any similar jobs where I live so right now I am officially unemployed. Severance package is decent so we're doing ok ... http://ogrehut.com/20090123/hmm-much-neglected Update: at this point it's all under snow -- Ogre Some snow remains in Butcher, freezing and thawing, it's messy for a mile or less then it's the best ever to the bottom. Shuttling is on for this weekend. The Sunrise Trail is snowed in with 2-4", very sketchy. The ... http://ogrehut.com/20081111/downieville-butcher-ranch-is-open The most recent storm dumped 6"-8" of snow up top. Limited shuttles this weekend. The snow may melt off. Call for most up to date information. We will post an update to the snow conditions as soon as we are clear if it is sticking or melting. If this melts ... http://ogrehut.com/20081105/snow-at-packer-saddle Fall is upon the Downieville Downhill, and some of the best conditions of the season are upon us. The fall rains pack down the dust, the trails get tacky like velcro and the fall colors entertain the eyes. We are posting bi-weekly conditions reports for Downieville, so riders can squeeze every ... http://ogrehut.com/20081020/squeeze-every-last-day-of-downieville-in