A 2000 mile roadtrip over five days for national parks, biking, and off-roading. I’d always wanted to visit Sedona - the adventurous beauty of a town!

Here are my favorite photos from 2023.

When I was 17, I desperately wanted a lightly-used JEEP. Probably thankfully, my dad refused (and I wrecked a car from a dirt road slide after that). Well! After years of watching, waiting, and even renting to try out – We finally bought a JEEP!

🤬 While racing a bike Strava segment, during our weekly group ride with our friends, I broke my elbow in two! Due to the kind of break, it required surgery & cyborg 🦾 upgrades. Surprisingly, I had very little pain throughout as long as I didn’t move it to a painful position.

Brand new bike! After trying Hunter’s Trek SuperCaliber 9.8 XT ultra-light XC (“cross country”) racer bike for a week – I was hooked. Once I saw this color scheme, and the 20% off sale for this 2022 bike – I secretely ordered it. It’s an absolutely amazing bike. It wants you to push hard, to tear into a…

Lost & Found 100 mile gravel race - I won my age group, women’s 50 years (and up)!

2023 Grinduro! at Mt. Shasta - 61 miles race where they interestingly only time four segments (~20% of the race) of various representative skill/terrain combinations. I had rough rear derailleur issues after lunch and wasn’t sure was gonna finish!

Utterly fantastic gravelbike climb up Mt. Tam, to Muir Beach, during rare snowy week in Bay Area. Thirsty Thursday group of five of us – part of East Bay Gravel Bikers. The snow was in the cooler areas up Mt. Tam (didn’t get on video, but picture stills).

Hunter and I bike the crazy 80 mile Rock Cobbler race in Bakersfield, CA, with 4 of our friends. Slippery mud, impossible climbs requiring hike-a-bike, cows, and over 8,000 feet of climbing insanity with 1,000 riders. This is the longest and hardest dirty ride of my life!

Hunter and I gravel bike up Mt. Tamalpais “Old Railroad Grade”, and head down the challenging “Rock Springs” fire road, circling 3 lakes! (Bon Tempe, Lagunitas & Phoenix)