A group of men from Compass Bible Church invited me to do my first-ever shuttle ride--hooray! After parking at Lulu's Pizza (how apropos), we took #ShuttleBoi up to the very top of Bogus Basin's bike park, a sneeze under 7K feet above sea level. I definitely felt that thin air while clawing my way up the steep hill to get to the start of Berm Baby Berm (sooooo loooose. Super sketchy. =/). From the base of the bike park, we took a 30-year-old iconic Boise MTB trail, Eastside, down a few thousand feet. It wanders through pine forests and features a lot of fun little side features all along the route: log skinnies, rock gardens, and small boulder jumps. No actual jumps of any size, though, which was a bit disappointing. Eastside connects to Sweet Connie's, which starts with a really fast, loose (sooooo. dry. so loose.) section of singletrack which *did* have a few 1' jumps on it. We started to see hikers, and a pack of 6 teens fighting their way *up* Sweet Connie's, at that point. Connie's dumps you back out on the road that leads to the top of the mountain. At that point I volunteered to escort John the five miles back on the road. I was utterly exhausted, but he was beat up from two very bad crashes. John embodies the Bible verse, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Semper Fi! Tucking as small as possible and screaming down the asphalt at 30 MPH is still a blast, though. Owing to my traitorous stomach, I did this whole ride on nothing more than two water bottles and a single, sugar-dusted, salt-coated gummy bear from Darryl. Thanks, Darryl! I thought the route was only going to be ~12 miles, so I'm fuzzy on where the extra miles came from, but it was quite the epic event.