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Old September 25th 08, 07:30 PM posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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This is the online version. I think the actual newspaper version will be
a bit more in depth.

'Unicycling down the mountain'
(http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/blogcategory/20/33/)

Lomita, Calif., resident Terry Peterson brought his unicycle to the
mountain. It was a bumpy ride, top to bottom. MAMMOTH TIMES
PHOTOS/SUSAN MORNING
It's hairy enough going down Mammoth Mountain on a bike with two wheels
but to commit to going down the narrow, tortuous, ash-filled trails on a
unicycle can be downright insane.

Not so for Terry Peterson. At 52 years young he has coined himself the
“Unigeezer” and for the first time this fall, Peterson and
his unicycle rode the gondola to the top of the Mammoth Mountain and
navigated the trail back to Main Lodge.
“I took up unicycling because being a piano tech is a sedentary
job,” Peterson said. “I used to ride a unicycle as a kid
and decided to take it up again.”

The conditions weren't quite what Peterson expected, but then again, he
had no idea that Mammoth Mountain was a dormant volcano.
“Parts of the trail were deep and thick with dirt and it was hard
to get traction,” Peterson said. “It took me two and a half
hours to get down but I also stopped to jump off some boulders and tree
trunks. And I had some unplanned dismounts that hurt.”

Peterson has been unicycling for almost three years now and shows no
signs of hanging up his tire any time soon. “I try to ride every
day and I think I'm in the best shape I've ever been.”

To follow Peterson and his unicycle adventures check out
www.unigeezer.com.



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Old October 1st 08, 10:19 PM posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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One of our local tv stations (www.whnt.com) did a short piece about
"mountain unicycling" featuring me. I asked them, nicely, not to play
"Entrance of the Gladiators" and they didn't; instead they substituted
some other circus music oh well... Still desite that I think it
wasn't a bad piece even though they misquoted what I said about "The
only other mountain unicyclists are in California and Utah" I actually
mentioned these two states as holding regular mountain unicycling
conventions...? I told the reporter that people all around the world
mountain unicycle and mentioned several times this website.
Unfortunately none of that made the clip It is true, as far as I've
found, that I'm the only mountain unicyclist in my state, or at least on
this forum. Of course I'd love to be proved wrong in that account. I'd
love some company on the trials and trails...

Anyway here is the link:
http://tinyurl.com/3pqzqn


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