Jackson Hole

This week we went on a mini-adventure to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We left early- way too early- on Wednesday morning. On the way up we stopped at Salt River pass so Justin could practice riding it (though on his mountain bike) for the upcoming Lotoja. For those who don't know, the Lotoja is a one day ride from Logan, UT to Jackson Hole, WY. It's about a 212 mile ride which takes around 10-12 hours. Pretty insane. This pass is where the competition for "King of the Mountain" takes place. They just take the quickest time to ride up the pass and the winner gets the title. He only brought his mountain bike, but I was his support vehicle.

When we got into town we went to Cache Creek and biked Putt-Putt. It was a shorter, easy ride. (So, essentially, it was perfect for me.) I really enjoyed it after being totally defeated the last time I rode-which was on Slickrock trail in Moab. When we got to the parking lot we met up with Justin's three friends. Tyrel left Justin a blowfish on his car. So to repay the present, Justin coated his lips with chapstick, ate a few powdered donuts and then left him two blowfish. Haha! Take that! That night I slept in a tent by the river and Justin slept in his treasured Brazilian hammock and the three boys slept on a tarp. One of the boys-whose bike seat had bent OFF the bike earlier that day, woke up to a deflated air mattress. (Yay for Thermarests!) He wasn't having the best of luck. But I laughed pretty hard when I took this picture of Justin asleep in his hammock in the morning.
















After everyone crawled out of their bags we hit up Cache Creek again and did Hagen trail. It was GORGEOUS!

After biking we ran the river with three of his friends. I'm not an adrenaline junkie so it was a little scary to hit the rapids. But Justin's BFF did a great job guiding us. Even though the raft taco-ed when we hit Big Kahuna, nobody got hurt. And no fish ate me or jellyfish stung me. (Inside joke.) After rafting, we drove home! We took a minute to fry up some steaks on the side of the road, but that was it! Short and sweet!