This year was round 2 for Lotoja.  That means we had a plan – and no surprises.  Of course life doesn’t always work out as you plan. We began our ride at 5:50 AM.  That means we had to wake up in the 4:00 hour – an hour that does not deserve to exist.  It […]

All summer, I’ve basically had one goal: to ride 100 miles on my bike in the Cache Valley Century.  I was kind of nervous about the whole thing, especially after seeing how wrung out my dad and Ben were from the same ride last year, but we’d been riding quite a bit all summer so […]

This weekend we visited Kanarra Canyon, near Cedar City, Utah.  I would never have expected that canyon to be there – or any slot for that matter.  It was great though.  Relatively untechnical, though absolutely awesome water features.  It has waterfalls, sliding rocks, and fairly narrow slots.  Absolutely incredible.       The hike begins […]

Last Friday around noon, we headed down to Brian Head for the first ever Matheson family reunion.  We took off a little early so we could enjoy the evening on our mountain bikes. The weather was positively perfect.         Unfortunately, we quickly discovered we were in a little bit over our heads […]