Corn Snow and Hero Dirt in Spring | Evan Roa | E8

Recorded at the iconic Tunnel Creek Cafe, home of Flume Trail Bikes in Incline Village, Nevada at the site of the Ponderosa Ranch and the old TV Western, Bonanza, Pow Bot and Trail Whisperer celebrate the transition from winter to spring, the arrival of "dual sport" season and awesome bike to ski missions, finding early season hero dirt and late season corn snow wearing flip flops and ski boots. The boys chat about why out-and-back rides are better than loop rides this time of year, recent mountain bike missions to Sea Otter, Pollock Pines and Quincy, California, a "First Descent" on Emerald Chutes after Pow Bot forgot his split board bindings and Trail Whisperer's former life as a Silicon Valley corporate employee and the satirical book he wrote about the experience, "The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Slackers - Because 7 is too Many." The boys also spend a few minutes chatting with one of the new owners of Tunnel Creek Cafe, Evan Roa, and the inevitable crazy stories of tourists frequenting the restaurant. This episode is a cornucopia of random topics!

Show Notes:

5:50 – The transition from winter to spring. Dual sport season.

10:30 – Spring coming in warm and wild – avalanches and snow slides over roads, the return of Lake Tulare.

12:30 – Early season mountain biking – out-and-back ride versus riding a loop. Chasing snow line up on bikes, chasing snow line down on skis.

15:00 – Flip flops and ski boots.

16:00 – 2 feet of ice at the bottom of the Sierra Nevada snowpack. Reglaciation. Ben, Amy and Max Fish ski 78 months in a row.

18:50 – PowBot and his totaled vehicle woes. Crazy stories of auto insurance payouts.

21:00 – Ways to avoid hitting deer with your car and kamikaze deer on Highway 70.

23:50 – Trail Whisperer’s previous life as K.P. Springfield, a corporate employee and the book he wrote, “The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Slackers – Because 7 is too Many”.

34:30 – Early season mountain biking. What’s riding well? Sea Otter Classic and Toro Park/Pipeline trail in Monterey, Pollock Pines, Peavine in Reno, Verdi.

41:00 – Riding Mount Hough trail in Quincy and the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship’s Spring Epic.

50:30 – Spring skiing – PowBot’s “First Descent” forgetting his split board bindings on Emerald Chutes.

57:20 – What’s gonna be happening? More snow! PowBot shutting down the restaurant for two weeks to ski the Eastern Sierra, Mount Shasta and Lassen National Park.

1:05:00 – SENDY Send of the Week – Snow send - @jimwmorrison – skiing a mountaineer’s route in Pakistan. @get.sendy – toboggan send. Bike send - Amy Morrison (@amymo_11) – 50 foot send at TDS Enduro.

1:13:00 – Evan Roa and Chad Burns – new co-owners of Tunnel Creek Café in Incline Village.

1:15:15 – Chatting with Evan Roa and acquiring the restaurant from Max and Patti Jones and Flume Trail Bikes.

1:20:00 – The brief story of Max Jones resurrecting the Marlette Flume Trail and building a business around the trail.

1:22:30 – What’s your favorite roadside attraction? Schatt’s Bakery in Bishop, Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz and Little America, Wyoming.

1:29:00 – Shawn Whitney getting interlodged in Little Cottonwood Canyon at Snowbird for a week.

1:31:10 – Tunnel Creek Café – Getting the word out that the restaurant is more than just for mountain biking.

1:33:20 – East Shore Lake Tahoe trail and funny stories of mountain bikers and unicyclists.