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CURTIS KEENE: At this point in my career,
I pretty much have been all over the globe.
A part of me still feels like I haven't really explored or seen
certain parts of the states.
Jackson Hole has definitely been on my hit list
now for three-plus years, and finally got
the opportunity to get out here and see
what all the hypes about.
JARED GRAVES: Curtis has been talking
about coming here for a while.
I know this place has been talked about quite a bit.
It's been pretty cool for riding.
We had a week off, so we thought, be good time to come
and check it out.
Whenever you come to a new town, like,
you need someone to show you around,
and Malachi was that guy.
He loves skiing, he loves bikes, and his lifestyle
is sort of based around that.
MALACHI ARTICE: The mountain bike trails here are super fun.
We have everything from steep technical to,
I would compare it to a slope-style course
at some places.
JARED GRAVES: Where the pass is on the road
and where the trials off from there,
you just want to do some shuttles.
But the main highway takes you right to the top.
You can stop in at Stagecoach, get
a ride between 3:00 and 6:00 PM, and just get a free shuttle up
to the top.
CURTIS KEENE: We're at the bottom of the pass, Stagecoach,
the infamous pick-up spot.
MALACHI ARTICE: Most days, within 5, 10 minutes,
you stick out your thumb and you're
going to get a ride right up to the top.
JARED GRAVES: It's pretty cool.
Just that everyone embraces the bike scene.
MALACHI ARTICE: Yeah-ay.
We got Big Jim.
CURTIS KEENE: Oh, hell, yeah.
JARED GRAVES: We'll help out guys
that just want to get to the top and have a good time riding
down.
CURTIS KEENE: You guys going up to the pass?
SPEAKER 4: Yeah, yeah.
CURTIS KEENE: Awesome.
Thanks brother.
Good dude.
Picking up fellow mountain bikers
and giving us a ride to the top.
MALACHI ARTICE: At least 2,000 foot up from where we started.
That's a good bit of descending right there.
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MALACHI ARTICE: I was able to show Jared and Curtis
one of my fishing spots.
Neither one of them have ever fly-fished before.
JARED GRAVES: When we knew we were going to go fly fishing,
we thought we should look the part.
And we thought we'd go get some hats.
Fishing products.
Ready to go fishing, eh?
If Curtis was a fly, this would be him.
Hi, I'm Curtis.
I'm going to catch a fish.
MALACHI ARTICE: Those guys are total jokers.
CURTIS KEENE: Bear spray when Jared's annoying you.
JARED GRAVES: Malachi came around
and showed us the basics.
MALACHI ARTICE: Dude, I'm going to teach these guys how
to fly fish.
Right from the go, like, it turned into a competition.
CURTIS KEENE: Obviously, I'm going to smoke Jared.
JARED GRAVES: When I catch the biggest fish,
I'll be a nice guy and say that Curtis caught it.
CURTIS KEENE: I'm ready.
JARED GRAVES: Let's go have some.
SPEAKER 5: How do you think they'll do?
MALACHI ARTICE: I don't think they'll catch any fish.
JARED GRAVES: I now anoint you, the King.
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MALACHI ARTICE: Watch that back and just
try to get it in the ripples right there.
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MALACHI ARTICE: Look what he caught though.
That's a solid branch.
There's a lot of untangling between the two of them.
JARED GRAVES: I feel like I'd have better luck
by jumping in there, doing a Campbell and grabbing them.
They didn't like what I was offering.
I don't think there's any fishy in here.
CURTIS KEENE: Think I had one.
It was hooking, man.
SPEAKER 5: How many fish did you catch?
JARED GRAVES: Zero.
MALACHI ARTICE: No fish were caught,
but we had a great time out there.
CURTIS KEENE: Ready to call it.
I reckon another 10 minutes, I had one.
Ran out of light, man.
Just, it only got dark at 9:45.
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MALACHI ARTICE: We're up north of Jackson Hole.
This is, like, an old school horse trail, and it's just,
it's really good.
CURTIS KEENE: We're going to try to keep up
with the local legend here.
JARED GRAVES: The local shredder.
MALACHI ARTICE: Riding with Jared and Curtis was super fun.
To ride with that level of talent,
I just hope some of it rubs off on me.
No matter who you are, whenever you get out there on a bike,
like, we're all just out there to have fun.
It was cool to see that even at their level,
they are still just out there having fun.
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CURTIS KEENE: Trips like this, it's about the location.
But along with that, it's about the people
you experience it with.
JARED GRAVES: No matter what you do in life,
you always want more, you always want something else.
But if you don't enjoy what's going on
around you at the time, then what's the point of it all?
[INAUDIBLE] this is something you'll
look back on when you're an old feller,
and you look back on good memories.