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New Year’s Eve

A SONG FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE

Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay—       Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way,       Shakes hands, and leaves us here.             Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away.

The year, whose hopes were high and strong,       Has [...]

Last Call!

2008 Utah Cyclocross “Last Call” Race January 3rd, 2009 Wheeler Farm Murray, Utah

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AWARDS PARTY DETAILS

Everyone is invited. Come celebrate the great success and growth of the Utah Cyclocross scene!

Registration

To get an accurate count for our caterer, we need everyone to REGISTER ONLINE by Dec, 29th 2008.

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Craziness!

Image sourced from JHUnderground.com

This is turning out to be an absolutely crazy avalanche season …

First there was the inbounds avalanche at Snowbird a couple weeks ago; then an inbounds avalanche at Jackson Hole kills a skier this past Saturday. Another inbounds avalanche today at Jackson Hole didn’t hurt anyone, but damaged one [...]

The Costs of Texting

What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting – NYTimes.com

TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a [...]

Jonathan Page misses doping control

Cyclingnews.com: Page missed post-race doping control

American cyclo-cross rider Jonathan Page missed a post-race doping control at the fourth round of the UCI’s World Cup in Koksijde, Belgium, on November 29. The 32 year-old silver medallist at the 2007 cyclo-cross world championships now has to await a hearing from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) [...]

Home

The old cliché is that “home is where the heart is”, and if that’s true, then home is one of three places … as always, home will be Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I spent my formative years, and where much of the extended family that I really consider to be FAMILY reside.

Home will always be [...]

Poetry Friday

THE THREAD OF LIFE

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The irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense to me: — Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand Thou too aloof bound with the flawless band Of inner solitude; we bind not thee; But who from thy self—chain shall [...]

A (Cyclist’s) Christmas Story (redux ad absurdum)

Copyright © 1999, by Kent Peterson. Republished without permission, but it’s too good a story not to share.

It’s been years now, but I’ll never forget that Christmas…

The days had grown short, the snow had begun to fall and my friends and I were all gathered around old man Petersen’s bike shop in the [...]

McDowell Mountain Regional Park

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McDowell Mountain Regional Park, originally uploaded by flahute.

McDowell Mountain Regional Park, originally uploaded by flahute.

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Following the rules as a way of protest

Democracy Now! | Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling

In a national broadcast exclusive, University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher explains how he “bought” 22,000 acres of land in an attempt to save the property from drilling. The sale had been strongly [...]