Ah, in my backyard kind of. The place is called the Syncline and is 65 miles east of Portland, OR, across the river from Hood River and in Washington (that's the Columbia River separating Oregon and Washington state in the background). It's a great "off season" riding destination since trails are from 100' to 2100'. Trails consist of Coyote Canyon, Agony Trail, Little Moab, Little Maui, Loose Lucy, Hidden Canyon, The Wizard and Sick Puppy. A little too hot with too much poison oak on the trails and rattlesnakes out during the summer to ride though.

Yeah, it's saying, "Can I have some peanut butter to go with all this jam". BTW, the knee is good, has been for sometime now, thanks.

Thanks! Yeah, the knee is good and has been for a while, only hindered from riding for about a month after the accident and yep I have been wearing knee pads ever since. Oh, I also was lucky enough to win some new Fox pads. Thanks Fox and Pinkbike!

Thanks, yeah I was one of the fortunate ones to score some sweet Fox knee pads. The injury happened a few summers ago, but I am totally fine and was back on my bike within a month rippin' trails again, but with pads on most all descents of course since then. Oh, the white stuff is not bone, it's fascia which is a sheath lining covering the muscle. But the shiny thing that looks like an eye is a pre-patella bursa that was removed and the mangled looking thing is the patella tendon, which they had to sewed back together. I am lucky I didn't shatter my knee cap and grateful for being a physical therapist cause I had a speedy recovery and was back on bike sooner than I thought I would be.

Crazy! Is that a knee or elbow or what is left of one?

Washed out my front tire on a corner just before hitting a jump that sent me flying forward off the jump and bike into the only sharp rock around with knee bent, hitting the rock just right. My knee just exploded open upon impact and I wasn't even going that fast while doing a 20 mile XC ride up on Mt. Hood in Oregon. There are definitely more gnarly, rocky DH runs up there that can do some serious damage if not protected properly and what surprised me the most that you could do something like this on a pretty tame XC ride.

Thanks, I would say yours is pretty gnarly too. Almost looks "non-human like", kind of like a bionic wound or something. Pretty sweet!