Outside magazine recently put a call out on Facebook that read,

Most good adventure tales start with the phrase: “So there I was…” But even the best story-teller can benefit from a picture that backs up the story. Send us your moments of peril, humor, and utter misery. We’ll select our favorites for an online photo gallery, and run the best of them in the magazine.

I submitted Julie, again, along with this story,

During a 9 day cycling tour of the Mediterannean Alps last summer, we had the chance to both climb and descent the highest paved pass in France, the Cole de la Bonette. Descending the same road that John-Lee Augustyn would famously crash on weeks later during the 2008 Tour de France, I found myself leading our tour guide, Julie and her sister, Lori. Thinking it would make for a good photo op, but not wanting to slow down, I just kept pedaling and stuck my arm out behind me and blindly snapped this photo…

I hope the pic makes the cut.  It’s the least I can do after she got my mug into a local CA magazine.

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Hi res copy, here.