MONKEYFEST 2007 Pictures Galore

[splat]

So i got up to monkey fest on friday around noon, several others had already arrived. anyway , here are the pics from my small camera.

on the friday ride.

My son starts us off

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Quo_fan on a Bridge

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my Boy on nice framed shot

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Big T on Widow Maker

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Quo_fan

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Mrs Splat Through some h20

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I thought this was cool cloud

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MBC

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Snowing ? In July ?

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after getting my ss throughly kicked by west climbing Burke Mt. we did the lrge group ride,

here is woodsguy and the Mrs. coming up darling hill

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the group getting ready to start

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we would split into 3 groups, I would lead the 3rd.

this little guy was sitting in the middle of the trial, figured running him over would only give me a flat

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Quo_fan

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Mr Riding

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JBP

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Jrodgers

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Squirel

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Sorgie

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DR and MBC

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DR plays sap line limbo

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MBC's Turn

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Woodsguy and Mrs Woodsguy pst a Sugar House

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MBC on Kitchel

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OK I got back te Dinner and the wife wanted to go out for a ride , and we met thie little guy

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The Wife

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my son going through a puddle

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Time for Sundays Ride

Big T

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Line O Riders

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Berkshire rider over a rock

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BadDNA trys and will join the crash thread again

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MBC at Heavens Bench , Burke in thebackground

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Wife , me and son , with burke in the background, yes that is the beast we raced up

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MBC

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my wife

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my wife and MBC

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my wife will join the crash thread

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my wife, Mrs woodsguy and woodsguy

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my son on kitchell

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Big T

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woodsguy with helmet camera

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MBC just before we got bck to town

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and Finally ( for now) , Deyv getting the last glass of Beer out of The Keg

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[BadDNA]

Awesome trip folks! See you all in the fall. I'll get brewing soon.

[I Are Baboon]

OK I got back te Dinner and the wife wanted to go out for a ride , and we met thie little guy

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/mf07/mf26.jpg



:eek:

EVIL RABBIT OF SATAN! You're lucky it didn't chew a hole in your neck.

I can't believe you held Monkeyfest without me. :disgust1:

[remdog]

looks like a good time

[Westy]

:eek:

EVIL RABBIT OF SATAN! You're lucky it didn't chew a hole in your neck.

I can't believe you held Monkeyfest without me. :disgust1:

I'm sure Splat had Ye Holy Hand Grenade in his camel back.

It was an awesome time, glad I made the drive up. Sucks that no baboons were there. Luckily Splat captured the best part of monkeyfest for you, you can just see my ass sticking out of my tent.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/mf07/mf09.jpg

[Echo]

What an awesome weekend. The weather was incredible after Friday. Can't wait to go back!

[MtnBikerChk]

I go on a 3 day MTB trip and I can't wait to go to work today and tell them how I broke my toe - in the bathroom at the B&B. WTF?

Anyway, great time and we can't wait to plan the next one WITH IAB!

I didn't take many pics - but here are a few:

Quo Fan and BigT at Heavens Bench with Burke Mtn in the background
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A mechanical (not Quo Fan, if you can believe it)
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Splat looking over the edge on Pastuers Point
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[Quo Fan]

I had a great time and so did BigT. We can't wait for the next monkeyfest.

[I Are Baboon]

It sounds like everyone scored pretty good at the Garneau store. I love the two jerseys MBC bought me...that heavy long sleeve one is freakin sweet. I am very jealous of the 25 dollar MTB shoes she got.

[McGRP01]

Glad everyone had a good time!! :thumb: I WILL be there in the fall!!!! :monkey:

[TreeSaw]

Woot!!! I am still looking for the camera to download our pics from the medium ride on Saturday.

[johnbryanpeters]

Great weekend, :monkey:s! pigboy checked in this morning from Chicago, waiting for the next leg of his trip back to the big island - he whined a lot when riding the Waterworks yesterday...

[douglas]

Great weekend, :monkey:s! pigboy checked in this morning from Chicago, waiting for the next leg of his trip back to the big island - he whined a lot when riding the Waterworks yesterday...


haha...he was riding (and singing) like a madman at the start of Saturdays ride...I couldnt keep up w/him, but eventually he got quiet, and tired and took the easy way back to refuel with leftover bacon from breakfast

[Deyv]

What a great weekend of riding!

Monkeyfest is so awesome, everyone is friendly. Everymonkey shares and help each other...... it's great! Makes you proud of being a monkey.

We had such a great time, thanks everyone!

Monkeyfest 2007: Riding, home brew beers, great friends, delicious ice cream, a short short track what more can you ask?

[HypNoTic]

I totally agree that everymonkey share & help. I had a too-small-but-working bike on Sunday to ride after breaking the main pivot bolt on my Slayer on Saturday. I still don't understand why Rocky put some stupidly small aluminium bolt on a 6" trailbike.

What more can we ask for? Well... stunts and jump over the fire pit? :devil:

Thanks everyone for a really great time! The beer was awesome :)

[Tweek]

Yes, a truly awesome weekend. Nice to see the familiar monkeys again and great to meet all you new (to me) monkeys. Of course, it's always awesome to ride that part of the world with my HomeMonkeys too.
Hope everyone got back safe.


Now get back to work. :dead:

[Echo]

OK I don't have any pics but here's my recollection of the weekend's events, somewhat blurred by BadDNA's homebrew and Long Trail Double IPA.

Me and Ito headed out Thursday afternoon and drove to Treesaw's house which is about the halfway point of the 8 hour drive. Much bike wrenching was accomplished, and a few beers were enjoyed. Friday morning our original plan was to bolt at the crack of dawn for the Kingdom, but instead we ate a leisurely breakfast and watched some of the Tour stage. This caused us to arrive at the Kingdom about 4pm instead of our original plan of noon. Sorry MBC!

We arrived to a light rain and a lodge full of monkeys. Splat had just finished leading a ride, so I drank a beer. It was at this point that we discovered MBC's two pans of taco dip. We attacked that yummy stuff with reckless abandon, and at one point I decided I better hide one of them in case MBC wanted some (she was out on a ride). This would prove in the end to be a VERY good decision, even though MBC said she wouldn't have been upset if we had finished it.

Soon afterwards, Westy arrived, itching to ride as expected. Me, douglas, ito, and Westy headed out to recon the trail conditions. Sorgie, Sq-earl and Tweek were supposed to come too, but somehow we lost them. To our amazement, the rain stopped as we headed out, and didn't start again until we got back. As expected, those 3 speed demons kicked my ass, but it was fun.

When we got back there were a bunch more monkeys milling around the lodge, and beer was flowing. We wolfed down some of Treesaw's awesome mac-n-cheese. Deyv and Isa and the fast Canadians arrived and organized a night ride. I was pretty spanked from chasing the fast boys earlier so I opted out, in the interest of surviving Saturday's deathmarch. But a nice sized crew went and ripped it up.

Saturday I awoke to woody blasting "In heaven there is no beer" on the stereo, with the sounds of Treesaw making pancakes mixed with toll road smacktalk also echoing around the lodge. We decided that such a momentus occasion as the first annual Monkeyfest Toll Road Time Trial needed to have some spectators, so myself, Quo_Fan, woody, and Sandwich jumped in BadDNA's truck to find the peloton and engage in some good heckling and cowbell ringing. There are already threads about that so no need to recount here - but let it not be understated how freaking MONSTEROUS that climb is, and how thoroughly Westy kicked everyone's ass.

After that, it was time to organize the big Saturday ride. Those who didn't already have season passes went and got their day passes. Our HUGE crew set off up Darling Hill road, where we encountered another HUGE crew. The Saturday ride is mostly a blur of me having an awesome time and remembering all over again how much the Kingdom Trails rock on a singlespeed. We ran into pretty much all the monkeys at various points on the ride and it was just straight up a PERFECT day.

After the ride we drank beer, cleaned up, and headed down to invade the Outback Brew Pub... which is just a short walk from the lodge. After some quality food and beer, we headed back to the lodge for beer, good times, and more beer and good times.

Sunday morning arrived and the weather was once again perfect. Treesaw made her patented kickass breakfast sammiches while we discussed a ride route for the day. We decided to go up Camptown and down all the Moose Alleys. Woody even joined us for this one, on a freeride bike with flat pedals and no water supply (hardcore award right there). Anyway singlespeeding up to the campground was PAINFUL. Holy CRAP was that ever hard. Completely kicked my ass. We hadn't even gotten to the trail yet and I was cooked. But it was still an awesome ride with awesome monkeys, and we all saluted the original Monkeyfest camp as we rode by.

After that it was all about packing up and heading home. And we discovered the second MBC taco dip that I had cleverly hidden away on Friday night, which was the PERFECT post-ride munchie. I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Oh and big props to Sorgie for doing the lion's share of work cleaning the lodge. He had some help too but I can't remember who it was. It was greatly appreciated though. Thanks!

And thanks EVERYONE that did their part organizing rides, brewing beer, making food, making reservations, wrenching bikes, and all the other things it takes to make another awesome and successful Monkeyfest!

[Westy]

What a great weekend of riding!

Monkeyfest is so awesome, everyone is friendly. Everymonkey shares and help each other...... it's great! Makes you proud of being a monkey.

We had such a great time, thanks everyone!

Monkeyfest 2007: Riding, home brew beers, great friends, delicious ice cream, a short short track what more can you ask?

It was a genuine pleasure to ride with you and the other folks in our group. Thank you for giving me the Kingdom tour.

[McGRP01]

I keep waiting for the "It wasn't the same without Tigg there" post. Who's gonna step up and say what y'all are thinking? :brow:

[splat]

I keep waiting for the "It wasn't the same without Tigg there" post. Who's gonna step up and say what y'all are thinking? :brow:

I haven't posted Those pictures yet, that will be tonight !

[Total Heckler]

Looks awesome out there. Great looking trails. Also cool to put some faces on the names on here. =]

[Sorgie]

I keep waiting for the "It wasn't the same without Tigg there" post. Who's gonna step up and say what y'all are thinking? :brow:

I wished you were there.... so I could ride your Covert.:biggrin: Just kidding, you were missed, as was MMcG, IAB, and others, but it was still a great time!
I don't know what more I can say that hasn't been said already.

Can't wait for the fall Monkeyfest!

[MMcG]

It was a sad weekend back here for me. I kept wishing I was in VT. :(

[ito]

It was a genuine pleasure to ride with you and the other folks in our group. Thank you for giving me the Kingdom tour.

Same here man. It was awesome riding with you, I appreciated the ass kicking and having a few good drinking partners this weekend.

Deyv, I'll see you this weekend up at your place, can't wait to check out the property you guys are working on.

And someone post up those circle track pictures, that was the most amazing thing ever.

Sunday's ride is going down as one of the best rides I've ever been on, absolutely superb!

The Ito

[douglas]

Sunday's ride is going down as one of the best rides I've ever been on, absolutely superb!

The Ito


next time, lets skip the road toll and do saturdays and sundays ride the same day

[ito]

next time, lets skip the road toll and do saturdays and sundays ride the same day

That and drop a few lead weights in Westy's backpack.

The Ito

[splat]

That and drop a few lead weights in Westy's backpack.

The Ito

tow rope!

[skinny mike]

Luckily Splat captured the best part of monkeyfest for you, you can just see my ass sticking out of my tent.
i was wondering what that gigantic thing on the tent was...

[Riding]

Awesome time up there this past weekend, it was great meetin all of you. Hopefully I'll be able to ride more and faster next time(charged lights/better knees). Thanks to Treesaw for organizing and all the cookin. Thanks to BadDNA for the Homebrew and the rides(to/from MA, up/down Burke Mt). Pigboy for the Ice Cream. Splat and Quofan for the Pics(I know there are more.) ....and everyone else for some form of entertainment or another.



Saturday I awoke to woody blasting "In heaven there is no beer" on the stereo,Thanks! Now is it's stuck in my head again! Freakin' BadDNA kept playing his version of that damn song all the way back to MA! :banghead: That's OK, One Day, His Uppance Shall Come!

[BadDNA]

Thanks! Now is it's stuck in my head again! Freakin' BadDNA kept playing his version of that damn song all the way back to MA! :banghead: That's OK, One Day, His Uppance Shall Come!

*google image search*

http://www.noquartergiven.net/images/kw02_69girlfight.JPG

You ordered me a pair of Fighting Wenches(c)! Dude, you rock. Place your bets now, 3:1 odds on the redhead.

[splat]

It sounds like everyone scored pretty good at the Garneau store. I love the two jerseys MBC bought me...that heavy long sleeve one is freakin sweet. I am very jealous of the 25 dollar MTB shoes she got.

Did she tell you about my $30 Full Face DH helmet ?


any way Back to Pics , Here are some more , this time from my other camera.

Pig Boy Over by the Ball Field

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woody Smae place

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Ito Wearing his Crown

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These Para sailers Were Buzzing around Burke. was told at the B&B that it was not a good day for them only the "Brave" ones Went.

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Hey is that Tigg!!! ???


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the Playground would be Fun

Short track !

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ANd then we found the tetter tooter ,

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didn't take us long to figure out it could be used asa catapault

Launching woody !

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Douglas on the short track

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MBC leaves light streak

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MBC in the woods

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the Cake

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can you say were Bike Geeks !?

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Mmmmm Breakfast

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Treesaw Relaxing eating an egg sandwhich

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what goes under the deck, is a bike repair central

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rider down !!! this was our only real casualty!!


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Isabelll Returning

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Another rider returns

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2 Luna Chicks

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and the wind picked up and the people with tents had sme fun
be free !!!

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and that is my Pics !!!

[MMcG]

Low on pics this year are we? Slackers. ;)

[splat]

Low on pics this year are we? Slackers. ;)


That Means your coming to the next one to take Pictures ??

[HypNoTic]

That Means your coming to the next one to take Pictures ??

That means I'll have to bring my camera next year. Ask the guys on AllezY.net how trigger happy I am :busted:

[Quo Fan]

I'm sitting here, with my laptop in my lap uploading pictures and posting them with my desktop.

The weekend is a blur, so I'm not going to separate my photos by what day/ride they are.

I like these clouds
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i284/pygar909/Monkeyfest%202007/IMGP0748.jpg

MBC (Note smile on her face)
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BigT
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BigT and Mrs Woodsguy
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There I was, just riding along, and this branch jumps out and wedges itself on my tire
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This is how DR feels about riding in KT
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BigT
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Mrs Woodsguy and Woodsguy
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Gratuitous scenery shot
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BigT
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I was playing with my remote flash at the short track
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I'm going to have to crop this to get the flash out of the picture
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How it should look
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Lil' Splat
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Monkeys on the teeter
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Short track shots
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The Toll Road Hill Climb started at 7:30, and when we got to the toll gate at 8, the last of the riders were just arriving.
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Splat (most of the riding shots are taken hanging from the front window, pointing the camera backwards, not looking through the viewfinder)
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Doug and Ito
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Westy, trying to draft the Big Blue Bus
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We stopped at a "flat" spot in the road and waited for the riders. This is quite possibly the best photo of the climb
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Gratuitous scenery shot while waiting for the riders
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Doug got the same treatment, but I didn't get any good pictures of it
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i284/pygar909/Monkeyfest%202007/IMG_9067.jpg

Ito's turn
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The Big Blue Bus then loads up and we head to the top.

Westy
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The red cross at the top of the mountain is where we are
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Doug stylin' a wheelie as he finishes
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I thought this looked cool
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i284/pygar909/Monkeyfest%202007/IMG_9091.jpg

There are more, but I'm tired and the rest haven't been uploaded yet.

[bluebug32]

Our HUGE crew set off up Darling Hill road, where we encountered another HUGE crew.

Fats in the Cats?

My local bike club had a huge group up there this weekend

[Quo Fan]

We saw the Fats is the Cats shirts. We were sporting our Ridemonkey shirts.

[splat]

Fats in the Cats?

My local bike club had a huge group up there this weekend


there ewere at least 6 other large groups of People wearing matchiong jerseys , how ever I did see a Cat in the hat type jersey a couple of times.

some one even commeted to use about haveing several groups of Ridemonkey jerseys

[bluebug32]

there ewere at least 6 other large groups of People wearing matchiong jerseys , how ever I did see a Cat in the hat type jersey a couple of times.

some one even commeted to use about haveing several groups of Ridemonkey jerseys

Didja take 'em out?

[robdamanii]

Didja take 'em out?

More importantly, could they CATCH the Fats group?

[splat]

More importantly, could they CATCH the Fats group?

You have obviously never ridden with any of the Stupid fast Canadians

[Riding]

More importantly, could they CATCH the Fats group?

Our group was uninterested in catching anyone. We were the "social" group. We did however keep leap frogging them. Lots of cute chicks in that Fats group.

[bluebug32]

Our group was uninterested in catching anyone. We were the "social" group. We did however keep leap frogging them. Lots of cute chicks in that Fats group.

Only the finest from the Hudson Valley :brows:

[douglas]

More importantly, could they CATCH the Fats group?



hahhahahahaha - thats a funny one

[TreeSaw]

Fats in the Cats?

My local bike club had a huge group up there this weekend

Yup. We leap-frogged with them a few times. They seemed to be traveling about the medium group pace and stopping for small rests here and there just opposite us.

[TreeSaw]

More pictures!!!

Sq-Earl was the official photographer for the medium group on Saturday. We moved along at a nice steady pace and there weren't too many riding shots, but here are a few:

At the top of Darling Hill:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0365.jpg

Medium group heading out:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0367.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0372.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0387.jpg

JRA TreeSaw:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0395.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0375.jpg

JRA Isa:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0394.jpg

A little rest before the next trail: TreeSaw, Isa & HypNoTic
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0369.jpg

Resting at the river's edge:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0377.jpg

Sorgie taking a dip:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0376.jpg

We found some stunts along the way and had to stop and play:
Sq-Earl needed to hop up on this (we saw another guy do it so it had to be done) :
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0413.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0416.jpg

Sorgie:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0406.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0420.jpg

JBP:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0407.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0402.jpg

Berkshire Rider:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0422.jpg

Echo:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0405.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0398.jpg

There were a couple of crashes too:
BadDNA:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0418.jpg

Sorgie:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0425.jpg

We made it to Heaven's Bench!!!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/DSCF0438.jpg

Isa & TreeSaw needed a moment ;)
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0439.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0440.jpg

A bunch of monkeys on the deck before dinner at monkey lodge:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0457.jpg

Some Playground antics:

Woody & Sandwich:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0462.jpg

HypNoTic
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0482.jpg

ArmOnFire being chased down by Westy:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0490.jpg

Monkey cake:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0504.jpg

Monkeys everywhere!!!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0502.jpg

[douglas]

haha - awesome!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/musicace76/Monkeyfest%20IV%20July%202007/DSCF0439.jpg

[robdamanii]

White balance set a little cold?

[Westy]

The flat track was awesome. I wonder what it was really meant for. Something tells me the town of East Burke didn't buils a tiny little oval in a playground for drunk mountainbikers.

[HypNoTic]

White balance set a little cold?

Fixed.





*Damn 100k attachment size limit. :bonk:

[HypNoTic]

@Westy: fortunately, Deyv didn't let me take out the pulaski from his car, elseway I would have shaped some berms for that track ;)

[Westy]

@Westy: fortunately, Deyv didn't let me take out the pulaski from his car, elseway I would have shaped some berms for that track ;)

A nice little entrance berm was starting to form. We just needs Deyv to go around the other way a few hundred times to help shape the exit.

[JRogers]

Hi guys, just checking in real quick. I'm in Middlebury right now, still on vacation. I just did a 6.5 hour mega ride over mostly dirt and gravel roads with some singletrack and woods roads thrown in. Swam once in the middle and once at the end. Great day.

It was awesome seeing everyone, riding, drinking some beers and just having a good time. Weather was perfect. I was suffering from my hikes and rides the days before, but the medium speed group was great (very glad I did not try to hang with the beast group, as I would have been off the back all day). So, thanks everyone and I'm sure I'll see you all around.

[dogwonder]

Sorry I couldn't hang with you guys, but I'm glad I could put a name to a couple of faces. And Treesaw, you captured me in one of your photo's!!!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/jptown/DSCF0367.jpg

[TreeSaw]

Sorry I couldn't hang with you guys, but I'm glad I could put a name to a couple of faces. And Treesaw, you captured me in one of your photo's!!!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/jptown/DSCF0367.jpg

:thumb: Sweet!!!

[woodsguy]

Awesome time this weekend. I really enjoyed meeting the folks behind the avatars.

Anyway, I put together two slideshows of the trip, one for each day. As always most of the images are from the helmet camera footage I got. To see the titles and captions use the links provided to go to the thumbnail views. We only did about 17 miles of the perfect single track on Saturday and 8 on Sunday but we managed to hit all the must do's - Tody's, Sidewinder, Webs, Old Webs, Heaven's Bench, Kitchel, and many others.

Below are the links to the slideshows. You can click the icon in the middle of the screen to view it full screen. However, I recommend not using the full screen. It stretches the images so they actually don’t look as crisp. There is music so adjust your volume accordingly. If the music doesn't start right away you will have to restart the show (sometimes the show starts before the music is done downloading).

Saturday's "Social" Ride Slideshow (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&SID=166027&Show=Y)
Saturday's "Social" Ride Thumbnail Page (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&AID=4683898&T=1)

Sunday's "Social" Ride Slideshow (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&SID=166029&Show=Y)
Sunday's "Social" Ride Thumbnail Page (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&AID=4684091&T=1)

Enjoy!
Kevin

[Riding]

Time for some uppance for BadDNA....and Woody too for that matter!:

Uppance 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpyzMTwMDXY)
Uppance 2 (http://video.google.com/videohosted?docid=-4246088531577135755&q=in+heaven+there+is+no+beer)
Uppance 3 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2029291879)
Uppance 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtmJXHbebw)
Uppance 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb1MOCpAoaw)
Uppance 6 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGRjn7Ra-kw)
Uppance 7 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liaV0ZAVK1s)
Uppance 8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wfyWnIqEU)
Uppance 9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqC4911mVI)
Uppance 10 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36kqp34cxgw)
Uppance 11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDael08JA4Y)

[MtnBikerChk]

Awesome time this weekend. I really enjoyed meeting the folks behind the avatars.

Anyway, I put together two slideshows of the trip, one for each day. As always most of the images are from the helmet camera footage I got. To see the titles and captions use the links provided to go to the thumbnail views.

Below are the links to the slideshows. You can click the icon in the middle of the screen to view it full screen. However, I recommend not using the full screen. It stretches the images so they actually don’t look as crisp. There is music so adjust your volume accordingly. If the music doesn't start right away you will have to restart the show (sometimes the show starts before the music is done downloading).

Saturday's "Social" Ride Slideshow (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&SID=166027&Show=Y)
Saturday's "Social" Ride Thumbnail Page (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&AID=4683898&T=1)

Sunday's "Social" Ride Slideshow (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&SID=166029&Show=Y)
Sunday's "Social" Ride Thumbnail Page (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&AID=4684091&T=1)

Enjoy!
Kevin

awesome pics! although I can't help but notice on day 1 there are an awful lot of pics of Splat's a$$!! :busted:

[splat]

awesome pics! although I can't help but notice on day 1 there are an awful lot of pics of Splat's a$$!! :busted:

I like my Ass thanks you!!!


acouple nice shots of Peter in in there!

[Jozz]

As always Monkeyfest was a blast!

Too bad I once again missed Saturday night's party. :rant:

But that's alright since we made it in time friday night for one slick night ride!

Here a pic of part of the group at the bottom of Pinkam road.

http://storage.canalblog.com/85/75/302326/15474121_m.jpg

The descent of Moose Alley was way fun, slippin' & slidin' down the mountain! After that we went on to the other side of the street to ride White school and others back to camp, but I kinda got the group lost on the upper/lower pond loop :oops:

So after a 2.5 hours night ride we got to camp for a few beers before going to bed.

The next day the original plan was to do a gigantic loop, but a few factors made us opted for a smaler ride, which still was long and painfull considering we had some fine riders in the fast group, like Deyv, Ito, Westy, Rick, Douglas and Pigboy.

It was an awsome ride, even if it was painfull at times!

Here's a the only pics I had time to take!

Sally!

http://storage.canalblog.com/43/83/302326/15474125_m.jpg

Westy

http://storage.canalblog.com/81/32/302326/15474127_m.jpg

Rick

http://storage.canalblog.com/26/22/302326/15474129_m.jpg

Douglas sleeping his way down Tody's Tour...

http://storage.canalblog.com/55/26/302326/15474134_m.jpg

[strangeland2]

Did you guys upgrade or rent? Or am I dumb and thats the same bike she always rides? :biggrin:

Awesome time this weekend. I really enjoyed meeting the folks behind the avatars.

Anyway, I put together two slideshows of the trip, one for each day. As always most of the images are from the helmet camera footage I got. To see the titles and captions use the links provided to go to the thumbnail views. We only did about 17 miles of the perfect single track on Saturday and 8 on Sunday but we managed to hit all the must do's - Tody's, Sidewinder, Webs, Old Webs, Heaven's Bench, Kitchel, and many others.

Below are the links to the slideshows. You can click the icon in the middle of the screen to view it full screen. However, I recommend not using the full screen. It stretches the images so they actually don’t look as crisp. There is music so adjust your volume accordingly. If the music doesn't start right away you will have to restart the show (sometimes the show starts before the music is done downloading).

Saturday's "Social" Ride Slideshow (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&SID=166027&Show=Y)
Saturday's "Social" Ride Thumbnail Page (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&AID=4683898&T=1)

Sunday's "Social" Ride Slideshow (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&SID=166029&Show=Y)
Sunday's "Social" Ride Thumbnail Page (http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=kevinandrobyn&P=&AID=4684091&T=1)

Enjoy!
Kevin

[pigboy]

we ought to have MFest every day of the year!

:banana:

that was seriously some fun riding. i consider my ass thoroughly kicked. and in considerably better shape too.

see you all when I host MFest Hawaii. JBP and I are arguing about how much illegal riding ought to be allowed. :bonk:

[TreeSaw]

we ought to have MFest every day of the year!

:banana:

that was seriously some fun riding. i consider my ass thoroughly kicked. and in considerably better shape too.

see you all when I host MFest Hawaii. JBP and I are arguing about how much illegal riding ought to be allowed. :bonk:

:banana: Sweet!!!!

[MtnBikerChk]

see you all when I host MFest Hawaii. JBP and I are arguing about how much illegal riding ought to be allowed. :bonk:

we have sky miles we've been saving up! :)

[Quo Fan]

I could visit the aunties. I did promise I'd be back.

[pigboy]

one of the rides JBP and I have been discussing for an MFest Hawaii would be:
1: illegal
2: fairly likely to involve night riding on very difficult terrain that is all rock
3: require a sag wagon to meet us at the end with cold beer

but there's a lot of legal riding that isn't insanely difficult and/or dangerous. plus we have red hot lava.

=)

[HypNoTic]

we have red hot lava.

With beer? :lighten:

[JRogers]

I forgot to post my favorite MFest quote. From Sandwich while watching Rasmussen on le Tour:

"Whoa. Look at that dude's pouch. I mean I'm not gay or anything, but it looks like he's smuggling a football in there."

[TreeSaw]

I forgot to post my favorite MFest quote. From Sandwich while watching Rasmussen on le Tour:

"Whoa. Look at that dude's pouch. I mean I'm not gay or anything, but it looks like he's smuggling a football in there."

:rofl: :busted:

[pigboy]

With beer? :lighten:

there are two extremely good micro breweries on the island. so yes. we have red hot lava AND beer.

[pigboy]

I need a copy of that awesome shot with Echo and the cowbell on the toll road ride.

i have evil plans.... ::wicked laugh::

[splat]

I forgot to post my favorite MFest quote. From Sandwich while watching Rasmussen on le Tour:

"Whoa. Look at that dude's pouch. I mean I'm not gay or anything, but it looks like he's smuggling a football in there."


That was classic!!!

[Echo]

I need a copy of that awesome shot with Echo and the cowbell on the toll road ride.

i have evil plans.... ::wicked laugh::
right click
save as

:huh:

[johnbryanpeters]

right click
save as

:huh:

'e wants hi res, don't ask... Who took it?

[splat]

'e wants hi res, don't ask... Who took it?

quo_fan took it

[Quo Fan]

Already sent Pigboy a PM.

[johnbryanpeters]

maloha, brah!

[Echo]

maloha, brah!
mahalo

[Westy]

Aloha

http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/mepics.nsf/view/teachers2/$File/teachers2.jpg

[pigboy]

right click
save as

:huh:

it is mostly a question of my internet sucking ass lately and I couldn't find the image as i could hardly load pages of text......

maybe I get a copy from Quo Fan real soon. Or my internet continues to behave and I find the page of the MFest thread that has that picture.

[johnbryanpeters]

it is mostly a question of my internet sucking ass lately and I couldn't find the image as i could hardly load pages of text......

maybe I get a copy from Quo Fan real soon. Or my internet continues to behave and I find the page of the MFest thread that has that picture.

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2613098&postcount=16

[Quo Fan]

I'm not currently at home, so it will have to wait until tomorrow night at the earliest if you want the hi-res version.

[GumbaFish]

Sounds like a great time, I haven't ridden on dirt in like 2 months but hopefully I'll be around and able to ride for a fall monkeyfest.

[douglas]

anyone know if all the sites at burke mtn campground have electricity?

[Echo]

I think some do.

[MtnBikerChk]

anyone know if all the sites at burke mtn campground have electricity?

when are you going?

[TreeSaw]

So, anyone up for a long weekend October 5-6-7? We could get the Lodge for Fri night, Saturday & even Sunday night (Columbus day is Monday) or some combination thereof.

[MtnBikerChk]

So, anyone up for a long weekend October 5-6-7? We could get the Lodge for Fri night, Saturday & even Sunday night (Columbus day is Monday) or some combination thereof.

I'm not sure I can get Monday off - but you know we're in!

[I Are Baboon]

So, anyone up for a long weekend October 5-6-7? We could get the Lodge for Fri night, Saturday & even Sunday night (Columbus day is Monday) or some combination thereof.

Sweet. I think a Lounge thread is in order.

[TreeSaw]

Sweet. I think a Lounge thread is in order.

Done! Sticky me please!

[splat]

Done! Sitcky me please!

that sound kinky :poster_oops: