Blitzkrieg After Report July 11th, 2010

What can I say, but WoW.  Great day at Diablo this weekend, other than a few diggers sustained by the crew, it was epic.  We had Curt, Lou, John K, Callum, Krojack, Eric, Brew and myself on hand to shred. 

The day started out with Curt and I departing downtown Philadelphia at 6:30.  Amidst a flurry of SMS messages and Phone calls from Lou/Kman (of which we ignored) we soldiered to the mountain in hopes of first tracks.  Curt and I decided to play a little joke on Lou since he shirked his duties last week, and bailed.  We said we went to Blue and were bailing.  We made 2 food stops and got pulled over going 84 in a 65, and still beat Lou and crew to the mountain, I wish I could have seen their faces arriving to the PMBA easy-up already flying the PMBA colors and us totally geared up, BRAAAP -  Holeshot! 

Curt and I had a couple runs before everyone else, and I think that 2^nd run had the best soil texture that I’ve ever experienced at Diablo.  It was pretty high speed, but just moist enough to be super tacky.  The soil was like grip tape most of the day, with no dust.

Once “B-Squad” (I kid) got their sh!t together, we proceeded to lay down no less than 10 runs of absolute PMBA mayhem.  We hit all the best trails multiple times: Outlaw, Tempist, Ripper, Slayer, Upper/Lower dominion, road to nowhere, Indy Cross, Alpine, pretty much everything.  We had Brewha on hand showing us how tubeless tires are actually pretty sweet, and there’s nothing at all wrong with a mongoose!  He also took some sweet video, see below.

Props to Callum who’s getting better by leaps and bound’s each time I see him.  He was throwing some big whips on upper dominion table tops.  Krojack was launching like a missile into the stratosphere, he may not know how to deload yet, but he’s got the preload down now.  I remember a moment going bar to bar with Krojack, about 20 seconds before going head first down ripper – “There’s no way that moth345rf@c7$r is passing me”.  Then as I was careening backwards down into the rocks, I was picturing Curt’s fork stanchion from last week, all gnarled, his met that fate in a similar situation last week.  Not “I hope I don’t break my neck”, priorities right IMBA?

 It took Lou “a few times” to get the whole lower dominion section but everyone pretty much got that section by the end of the day.  Seriously, I’ve been to whistler a couple times and you’re not missing out on too much by riding Diablo instead.  They’ve stepped it up big time.

On the last corner of the last run of the day, our resident legal council was down hard.  Caught a pedal and pile drove his left shoulder into the ground causing a bad collarbone break.  John’s a tough guy and with the help of Eric Dierks he made it to Temple’s ER in a few hours where he was seen by the PMBA doctor Dustin Urban, DO.  He’s slated to make a normal recovery, but potentially no riding for 3 months!   

So where to next!?!

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