Mountain Biking in Chiang Mai

[Rockheart]

If i ever go back to Thailand i may try this.

[George Pill]

Yes, this looks very interesting. Hope they got choices of Beginner's trail and Medium ones, too. I am 72 so much watch my heart and physical stamina. If you do try this biking experience, pleas do mount a GoPro on your forehead. Get the latest GoPro 8. It has the anti-shake feature. I saw a video at this GoPro sales stand in Costco. Was on sale for $280 and now $320. Will wait to see if this C vaccine does really protect well AFTER everybody receives the injections. The message I keep getting is the vaccine researchers are always saying, "CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC". If you have been reading the newspaper VERY CAREFULLY word after word (Like I did with complicated Medical books) you will have read that the antibody levels actually DECREASE with time! The actor Tom Hanks was discussing how his Antibody levels have decreased since his Australian infection. I was so happy he had good doctors who ordered further testing of his Antibody TITER to see if it was stable or decreasing. Since he and wife Rita have recovered they are extra cautious to avoid further movie-making and socializing with the many parties and public appearances that come with stardom.

But keep up your Hope's. The C vIrus testing is nearing the finish line in Brazil. I predict they will announce the vaccine is SUCCESSGUL in producing protecting ANTIBODIES. BUT BUT BUT they might announce a requirement of a BOOSTER SHOT in ONE MONTH. THEN an ANNUAL follow up shot every year thereafter. Now may I give you further bad news? What IF this C virus mutates and becomes one that mo vaccine can treatment in other words it mutates so often we can't developed a vaccine fast enough to catch up? Such is the case for AIDS. After so many years of research there still is NO vaccine or CURE. just palliative treatment to keep the virus levels low. Now I don't cars if I sound like broken record player but there have been an awful lot of viral diseases popping up like Ebola,

[Rockheart]

They have many different riding experiences some very easy and others hard.
You could probably do one of the easy ones where it is all downhill. They drive you to the top in a truck and you just ride the bike downhill on roads.
Probably safer than a motorbike and you can wear a fancy Thai biking backpack. You could possibly ride a Kona mountain bike.
https://mountainbikingchiangmai.com/..._schedule.html

https://www.trailhead.co.th/gallery-vdo/

Probably out there you only need worry about malaria and maybe zika out there.

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I don't like wearing a go pro, it is a pain in the ass. I like it if others wear it and film me but i don't have any footage of me mountain biking.
Here is some go pro footage that shows me skiing with my friend Shyla.

[George Pill]

You're so lucky to live in the Canadian Rockies with all the powdered snow. I skied in California's Havenly Valley during the december 1969 winter. A very dry year. By February I drove all the way from South Lake Tahoe to Sun Valley Idaho. That's a very long drive through the blackest lava fields for the longest and loneliest drive. Wanted to turn my car around and return ho.e to Hawaii. After Sun Valley for 2 days I drove to Pocatello for more skiing. Then on to Park City, Utah, for a week. Loved their night skiing. Then on to the climax. Aspen, Colorado. I slept in my car to save money so I could eat at steak restaurants. So cold I had to wear my ski clothes and thermals with 2 pairs of socks. Hated that it was so cold I had to get out of the car and piss into the snow-covered parking lot. My piss was warm and caused an unexpected steam cloud to engulf me. I had to suffer this miserable cold nights because I wasn't making enough money as a casino busboy
Aspen was so huge compared to Heavenly Valley. Took me longer to get down the mountain and then ride such long ski lift chairs. The Rockies were such HUGE mountains compared to Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, which also has skiing. But it's too warm up there and like skiing on wet shaved icecream, you lucky to live Canada and be rich enough to take friends skiing. When I lived Tahoe I paid only $200 for season pass. That's for the entire 3 months I was there. I was determined to learn how to ski.

After my 1 year journey across the usa from los angels to NYC and Cape cod and back to LA, i returned home with a new mission. Get into vet school
So could ski and surf for the rest of my life. Never happened. I was too busy and worn out everyday. Finally I retired and could finally relax.

Anyway you are still young and rich. Enough to take your only wife all across Europe. Where'd you get all that dough,? Trust fund baby?

[Rockheart]

Canada has the best snow for skiing for sure. Maybe in Russia it is similar but I don't think they have resorts and stuff like we do.
Utah is rated the best powder usually but when went there once it was wet cement and the runs are too short compared to what i like.
Most of those videos we are on the most difficult runs so the snow tends to be less skied and more powder.

I just had a good job and i can drive to the mountains in 8 hours from where I live. Stay in cheap hotels and get as many discount cards as I can find. I'm certainly not rich.
It doesn't cost that much to ski and stay in Canada, much less that in the USA generally. Colorado is ridiculously expensive.
Only if you go to Whistler to ski it gets very expensive. Lake Louise is far better and the only stop in Canada on the World Cup circuit.

One time i took Cake skiing in Italy and another time I visited her in France, not really "all over Europe". She was never my wife, although i did give her a ring.

Mountain biking in Canada is better than Thailand overall, I think. Still it would be interesting to have different scenery and travelling through some remote villages and stuff. Many of the bike trails near Chiang Mai are in the notorious Golden Triangle.

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[George Pill]

Have fun while you're still young. I did. But now I'm old. You're still young and will have lots to do and accomplish with your life. Never hold back. Got only one life to live. Wait for the vaccine and soon we'll all be ready to return to LOS. "I'll be back".

[Rockheart]

I'm already old.
I don't plan to stop biking or skiing ever......
I will probably stop going to Thailand before that ever happens.
Absence is not making my heart grow fonder....

You don't need to go to a resort to ski in Canada necessarily.
I've also gone Cat Skiing and Heli skiing.
When i went Cat skiing the snow was over my head in some places....

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[Escierto]

We used to live in Sandy, Utah at the foot of Little Cottonwood Canyon, home of Alta and Snowbird ski resorts. Back when we lived there in the early 90s it was relatively inexpensive. We used to go up there just to see the sun and escape the winter long inversion over Salt Lake City.

[George Pill]

Wow! Crag you are the ULTIMATE ADVENTURER par EXCELLENCE! You're not poor or middle income to hire a helicopter or fly to Thailand every year. You ROCK, baby! Glad you take such extraordinary photos. When I skiied in Tahoe, Sun Valley, Park City, and Aspen I couldn't afford a digital camera. It wasn't invented then. Whoooh. You da MAN, Brah! Keep on Trunkin'.

May you always be healthy, weathy, young, and HORNY.

[Rockheart]

Wow! Crag you are the ULTIMATE ADVENTURER par EXCELLENCE! You're not poor or middle income to hire a helicopter or fly to Thailand every year. You ROCK, baby! Glad you take such extraordinary photos. When I skiied in Tahoe, Sun Valley, Park City, and Aspen I couldn't afford a digital camera. It wasn't invented then. Whoooh. You da MAN, Brah! Keep on Trunkin'.

May you always be healthy, weathy, young, and HORNY.

I only cost $600 USD for one day of shared Heli skiing.

$200 for one day of Cat Skiing.

I never started skiing regularly until after digital cameras.

I'm not really healthy, wealthy, young or horny.

[Rockheart]

We used to live in Sandy, Utah at the foot of Little Cottonwood Canyon, home of Alta and Snowbird ski resorts. Back when we lived there in the early 90s it was relatively inexpensive. We used to go up there just to see the sun and escape the winter long inversion over Salt Lake City.

Yeah I went to Salt Lake City about 10 years ago and it was very inexpensive compared to other resorts in the states.
I went to Snowbird, Alta, Brighton and Solitude Ski resorts.

Many people i know like to go mountain biking in Moab Utah. It looks way to insane for me.
I scared to death just watching this guy ride.... Don't Look Down!

[Aaron S. Young]

Try cycling around Chiang Mai to get used to the traffic, and when you feel fit enough try to go to Wat Doi Suthep. If you pass the same road through the famous temple, you will find quite a few beautiful villages and views. Be very careful when going down a slope especially if it is raining because the road is steep.