something smells like a*shole- comment of the week. i'm totally stealing it.

eh, it's a big ass country with a lot of geographically similar areas...

I'm actually only about 7 hours from moab, the canyon is what makes the length, otherwise it's almost directly northeast of us. There's pretty good trail riding here in AZ with Sedona, and Flagstaff-pretty good very, maybe 3,000 continuous if you can make it to the top. I used to be more of a freerider-and would still love to hit virgin, but I'm working on the endurance/adventure race thing, my goal is the colorado trail race, and BC bike race in the next two seasons. but there are actually a bunch of good hidden lines around here in city limits, which is mildly convenient, nothing huge but I've found a couple of 20+ foot drops.

word, I had to google maps valmiera. It was not on my very short repertoire of latvia trivia... Canada is a sweet place, you live on the shore? I've only been a few times, but each time I enjoyed it more and more. I used to live in Bellingham WA, not far in from the border. loved everything about the area... miss it still...

it was a joke... why the move? What part of latvia, one of the researchers I work with is from Riga.

I hear you on that, it is good for background information to be presented because it can tell a better and perhaps complete narrative. I addition, the segment with Thomas and Brendan at Whistler is amazing. They simply ripped through the segment.