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Elaine joined us for her first road ride on the Palouse a couple of Sundays ago. We were skeptical when she said she was planning on doing STP. It Appears she was undaunted by her Palouse experience. And she includes a link to an article about Floyd Landis from the New York Times.

Hi Corrie,

I hope your training for RAPSody is going well. I just wanted to drop a short note to let you know that I finished STP with my friend last weekend.

The ride was superbly organized and the weather couldn't have been better.

It looks like Landis might be out of the running in the Tour, but this was a jaw dropping article for me: What He's Been Pedaling

Elaine

Apparently John didn't get the word that everyone was supposed to let up on me this week. Last week everyone who had a shot at sneaking in a century without me, did so.

So, John gets into the act by doing STP in one day with an ext

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Text by Nicki Riddle Here we are at the Brundage Mountain parking lot, my favorite place to be. BUT wait where is all of the snow? Oh my, I forgot this is July and it biking and hiking season. Alas, the mtn. manager has informed me that we have only 109 days till ski season, SNOOOOW SORRY CORRIE!! Mike and Sean Riddle and Tamara Ensley made up the mountain bikers. Nicki Riddle and Janet Abernathy made up the hikers. I was happy to have Sean along for his once a year ride.

Tamara worried all of the way down about getting on and off the chairlift with her bike. She just wanted to ride by herself and have a fun day. WRONG!!!

Mike would not allow that. So off she goes on her maiden trip with Sean and Mike. Hang on Sweetie! B

ut as you would expect of anyone that rides bikes with Ben Jain, she was amazing. Yes she fell, yes in some areas she walked her bike(so did Mike) but she did 4 amazing runs in total. Mike would stop and wait for her and hear her laughing and giggling, then he would hear OH MY, OH MY, OH MY!!!(OH SHIT)

When she was finished she resembled Pig Pen and Ben's bike was a total mess, but intact. They had fun and the beer at the end was well deserved.

Janet and I had a beauitful walk on the North side of the chair scoping out next year's snowshoe adventures.

As we were illegally walking down the Hidden Valley trail to check out how steep the ski runs are(and they are STEEP), I mentioned that only an expert mountain biker would venture down this trail. Well who should come up on us? Yes, Sean way out in the lead with Mike and Tamara behind, with enough distance apart as to not eat each others dust.

Tamara is one gutsy chick, no doubt about it.

Janet and I walked for 3 hours, saw some fantastic views, got a blister or two and our own coating of mountain dust. That's all the action we needed.