****Yeah yeah…I know. I’m tardy. Look, I’ve been busy and I promise that it will be worth it. We now rejoin our regularly scheduled blog already in progress….***

Well, here we are, the hottest day of the year. Lets go ride the high desert to celebrate, shall we?

Kobau on a hot day……this is at about 6000′ and it’s about 30C out.

Group shot.

This ride is a bit of a bummer…..

It’s only because the trail is so rutted out due to the 20 or 30 riders it sees every year.

Un petit drop….

Here Wade shows us why he gets paid to be a model. Gosh, he’s so stylish.

How do you spell “rickety” again?

Another drop, not quite so petite this time.

Ahhhh, back out in the open. We’ve dropped about 1500′ already, and it still looks like we’re at the top.

We had a little detour for our friend, Mr Rattlesnake.

OK, everybody who has sore fingers from hanging on to the brake levers grasp their hands in agony.

I think we might be finally getting close to the bottom.

poser….

Girl poser….

More ragin’ through the sage. It looks like you can just bash through those things, doesn’t it?

Luke will tell you otherwise. They are somewhat unforgiving.

So what’s the perfect end to a huge singletrack DH when it’s 42C (110F) out? Yeah, swimming and diving in the river with some cold ones.