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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. ' ' (http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/blogcategory/20/33/) -- MuniAddict 'UniGeezer.com' (http://unigeezer.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MuniAddict's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12920 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycle articles (but wait there's more...)
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 -- MuniSano ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MuniSano's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13350 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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