Hey everyone! It’s Andrew Cho here doing a guest post on the past 7 days of my life.
The first 2 days were spent driving roughly 20 hours to Vail Colorado for the Teva Mountain Games. Myself, Mitch Chubey and Logan Peat took on the drive to Vail in the NSMB team truck. 
A few hours separated our departure and Ross Measures, Danny Brody and Eric “Lawrek” Lawrenuk’s departure, but somehow Ross managed to beat us there with his long legs.
After a quick 3 days of Teva Mountain Games and the usual shinnanigans involving every kind of weather you could imagine, the five of us were left with a difficult decision to make. Go home? or go Ride? Naturally, the answer was to go ride. Conveniently located roughly 4 hours West of Vail, is a wonderful place called Moab. For those of you that have been there, you know that it’s a pretty cool little place, also with a wicked slick rock bike trails. We were quick to pounce on this opportunity and we were off to Moab.
Straight to the slick rocks we went, and we pedaled for roughly 80 yards and we had already lost Logan Peat to a flat tire. With no tubes or tools, he took one for the team and retreated back to the trucks and we continued on our epic ride, following random white dots painted on the rocks. Throughout the ride we found a few wall rides and an incredibly large canyon hundreds and hundreds of feet deep.
Darkness came rolling in and we checked into our hotel and grabbed a bite at the local all you can eat pizza joint called Zax.
As if we weren’t ‘touristy’ enough before taking pictures of just about everything at the slick rock trails, we decided to go play tourists at the Arches National Park the morning after. Mitch used his rock climbing skills to scale about 20 feet up into a little cave on the side of an arch…soon to realize that the decent was going to be much harder than the ascent. 
We soon realized the vast size of the park and that it took quite a bit of driving to see all the arches. Driving to see the last arch, we also noticed that the park had a few 4×4 trails. With both of our groups in trucks, we took the challenge. The trail started mellow with a gravel road..soon to be followed by a few technical rock crawls. The 4×4 journey included some wildlife sightings..and me getting dared to grab the tail of a snake.
We were close to the tail end of the day and with about 4-5 more hours of daylight to spare, we decided to drive out to Green River, Utah with hopes of riding the Super Booter. We were met by strong gusts upon arrival to the site so we proceeded to 4×4 down the road in search of a ridge for myself and Mitch to ride. Not too long after, we found a ridge we were happy with and we started cleaning up a few lines. 
While myself and Mitch were working on a steep section, Ross was nice enough to build us a step down.
As the sun set, we knew it was time to hit the road and take on the 20 + hour drive back home to Vancouver…Wicked Trip Guys!
Cho
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