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I am a former community journalist at YourHub.com who lived in Vail for two years before moving to Cody, Wyo., where I live now. I mostly use YourHub.com to keep in touch with my former colleagues at YourHub.com World Headquarters in Denver, but I also like photography and post a lot of photos. "You know that every time I try to go where I really want to be it's already where I am." - System of a Down, "Sugar"

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Teva Mountain Games: bouldering, biking, etc.

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Contributed by: Joel Hunt on 6/2/2007

The Teva Mountain Games kicked off this past week and are really in full swing this weekend. The games include mountain and road cycling (with a multisport hybrid race call the Ultimate Mountain Challenge that attracted the likes of Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis), bouldering, kayaking, rafting, trail running and a slew of other sports you have to be a millionaire and a masochist just to get started at.

I've made it a point to get out to a few of the events on my days off and before work, but mostly what I've seen is qualifying because that goes on in the mornings and then the finals and championships happen in the afternoons and evenings. Even so, I've gotten a good taste of the games so far.

Because I've taken quite a few pictures of a couple of different events, I decided to split them up into two blog entries, thus the title.

The climbing photos are from the pro bouldering qualifier Friday morning. In the qualifier, amatuer climbers competed for several open male and female spots in the professional competition. For a story on the bouldering competition by Daily Sports Writer Ian Cropp, click here.

The second group of photos is from the freeride qualifier Saturday morning. In freeride, competitors race mountain bikes along a course filled with obstacles, from table tops to wall to - new this year - a "moat" with narrow bridges over it. For an overview of how freeride works, read this article by Daily Sports Editor Chris Freud.

At the end are a few miscellaneous photos from around the village.

For a whole bunch more Teva Games coverage, visit www.vaildaily.com/teva.

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