August 30, 2005

Filed under: Journal — Hannah Steffens @ 9:51 am

Hey Everybody!

So the Jump Jam at Jeff Lenosky’s was a hit! It was a very good time. Quite a few riders showed up for the event, which was good for all the photographers, and video editors. Some really awesome stuff got thrown down. Mick Hannah showed up, which made it an international event. Mich attempted his first superman-x-up. In fact, I have never seen a mt. biker pull that. He almost landed it, but slid out at the landing. Cam McCaul was throwing down huge superman seat grabs of course along with Dave Smutok. It was a lot of fun!

Mick and I headed to Mt. Snow in Vermont for the National DH race. It was fun to watch him race, because he is soo fast, but it was not so fun when on Sunday for the qualifiers it started to rain. Mick loves riding when it is wet, because in Australia it is wet a lot when he is home riding. We were both feeling good about it, but something went wrong in the rock section, and Mick ended up flying over his bars into a tree. He got up and rode down, but by the time I got to him, he had a neck brace on, and was being back boarded.

Pretty scary few hours for us. He hit the tree with his neck so hard that it caused it to swell. Dr. were worried about internal bleeding in his neck, and a few other major things. So the transported him to a bigger hospital for some blood work and a cat scan.

I did a lot of praying that day, which payed off. Mick and I walked out of the hospital about 5 hours later, and he is heading off to worlds right now. So he is doing great!

I am getting ready for a slope style comp. at Hemlock in Vancouver right now. I will be heading up there today to help them build the stunts for the comp. It’s the first ever all female slopestyle competition, which will be a lot of fun. So stayed tuned for the results on that. We compete on Sunday.

After that, I head to Scotland to see Mick race for the World Cup! I’m deffinently excited for that!

I hope all is well with everybody reading this, and I hope to see you out there riding. So have an Awesome Day, and I will talk to you later!

RIDE’N ON AND ON!!!
HANNAH LEIGH STEFFENS

August 19, 2005

Woodward West

Filed under: Journal — Hannah Steffens @ 7:04 pm

Hey Everybody!

Thanks for visiting the web-site that Bluecollar MT.BIKES set up for me. Thanks Tim!

It’s been a great year! I’ve been on the road pretty much since Sea Otter. My trips have taken me to England, California, Pennsylvania, and many more exciting places.

I am in Stallion Springs, California which is where you can find one of the top skate, bmx, mt. bike, and inline camps in the world!

To see the camps, go to www.woodwardcamp.com. This is the first year they have offered camp training for mt. bikers. They offer taining for Skateparks, dirt jumps, and they also offer a slopestyle course. It’s a wonderful place to learn new things on your bike.

Adam Hauck, Carter Holland, Taylor Sage, Cameron McCaul, Nate Adams, and Emily Johnston, were some of the pros who visited, and taught the campers. We deffinenely had a great time. Most everybody is heading home today.

It was great, because yesterday we ended the day with a high jump contest. What they do, is set up a pole that you have to jump over, and if you hit it, it falls down. If you knock it down, you loose.

So they started the competition off at 3 ft. Which most everyone clears, but after you clear it, it moves up 1ft. I only ended up making it to 7 feet, but Carter Holland got to 9 ft, and Adam Hauch made it to 10 ft. It was pretty fun!

I am here until monday the 22nd, then I am off to Jeff Lenosky’s jump jam in New Jersey. I will update you on how the jam goes. So stay tuned, and check in for updates. Thanks for your support everybody!!! You are what keep it real, and makes it even more fun!!! :) Have an Awesome Day!!!

RIDE’N ON AND ON!!!
HANNAH LEIGH STEFFENS