JTreeLife

by J-Tree Dave
Bruce Geffin and the crew from the Joshua Tree Skin Care / Enertia Trail Foods sponsored Nice Pair won the Chicago to Mackinac race last weekend… for the 3rd time in a row! This ‘hat trick’ for the Nice Pair come just a week after performing a similar ‘hat trick’ in the Port Huron to Mackinac Race.


The crew of the Pair was fueled by Enertia Trail Foods for the first time this race. The minimalist living accouterments onboard the pair are a perfect candidate for the gourmet, cook in the bag, dehydrated meals offered by Trail Foods. Bruce reports the teams favorite was the Coconut Quinoa Pudding… ready in about 5 minutes after the addition of cold water to the measured pouch!

Nice Pair is approaching Mackinaw Island this morning, with a good lead over the other boats in their class!

Track the race live at:ttp://www.michigan.org/gps/

by JTree Dave
So… you can follow the race progress with live GPS tracking updates at: http://www.michigan.org/gps/
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Also… we were able to snap a pic just before the storm with the main sail up…

Be sure to check out our co-sponsors: Enertia Trail Foods! www.trailfoods.com
The crew is stoked to loose the weight of all the ice chests, and get awesome, fast, hot meals on the boat. This is a full on racing boat… minimal kitchen, poop in a bucket… so the trail foods meals really take it up a notch!

by J-Tree Dave
It was super cool to be 3 mile out on lake huron, in the little ski boat, with the guys from SailingAnarchy.com filming the start of the 90 year running Bayview to Mackinac. Our focus was to get some great shots at the start of our Sponsored Boat, ‘Nice Pair’… unfortunately, we ran into a little problem with a missing media registration from the race directors, the coast guard, and the weather. Just before the start of the multi hull class, a squall hit, that turned our sunny afternoon photo / video outing into a total epic! Wave crashing over the bow and winshield, tons of fancy video equipment for a live internet feed on board, pouring rain and lightning… So this was the best shot we got of “the Pair” before the race… hope to see some online pics from the finish with all the sails up!

by J-Tree Dave
Joshua Tree Products - Makers of hand crafted organic skincare for an active lifestyle, will sponsor multiple time winner, “Nice Pair” in the legendary Port Huron to Mackinaw Race.

Port Huron, Michigan (July 16th, 2010)

J-Tree currently markets its line of high-performance, organic & natural skin care products to rock climbers and cyclists. The sailing and water-sports markets offer tremendous potential with great synergy for the brand. Activities on the water and under the sun are tough on your skin. J-tree offers unique solutions for the weathered faces, exposed lips, and torn-up hands of sailors and others who spend time on, in and around the water.

Bruce Geffen’s “Nice Pair”, a 38’ catamaran built by Mike Bell at Offshore Catamarans, will be flying the sponsorship banner of JTreeLife.com as his team attempts to win their division honors for the third year in a row and fifth time overall. And JTreeLife.com is happy to partner with Team “Nice Pair” on her Silver Anniversary tour of the Great Lakes racing circuit.

Nice Pair has quite a resume, with both Bayview Mac and Chicago Mac victories, plus numerous other wins and elapsed time records all over the Great Lakes’ best sailing venues and races.

Dave Lawrence (J-Tree Dave) says that: “This Bayview Mackinac race will be a great launching platform for our new SPF 33+ Sun Stick.” This mostly organic, totally natural, dry-touch foundation stick is designed for an active life under the sun… On the water, rocks, and snow.

Weighing in at SPF 33, It is very water, sweat, and freeze proof. It comes packaged in a no-fuss applicator, has a pleasant fresh scent, and a translucent skin-tone tint… Just enough tint to see the application, but not so much to leave you looking like David Hasslehoff circa 1986!

by J-Tree Dave
With 90° weather, a good dose of humidity, and sunny sky’s reported back home on the lake in Michigan, Torr and I decided to end the road trip a few weeks early and B-Line it back to Pinckney. We are taking the month of July to get caught up on work around the office and at the shop, visit friends and family, restock the RV, and get ready for our next jaunt out west for the Out Door Retailer in SLC August 3rd. Of course with weather like this, we are also taking the opportunity to hit the water for some wake boarding everyday over our lunch break. Torrent loves the water, and he thinks he is a lifeguard for people wake boarding. He’ll be jumping off the dock right after you, even if its a high dive, and barking when you crash behind the boat.

Santa Cruz had the lead for our favorite town of the trip… that was until we got to the home of our favorite pet products company Tazlab (this is a link… check it out!).

Bend has it all (within a half hour of downtown)
- Mt Bachelor
Smith Rocks
- The perfectly groomed single track Whoops Trail trail with big banked corners and rolling table-top jumps
- White Water Rivers
- Wakeboarding Lakes
- Surfing - just a few hours away.
- To top it off, there is a brewery on every corner!

Bend wasn’t all play though… we got plenty of work done at the Tazlab headquarters. between bike rides and climbing, we were developing strategies to help them sell our Pet Salve, and working on a super awesome new project called Silipint (another link here!).

Check out how cool these squishy pint glasses are! Un-breakable, re-usable, and imprint-able with custom logo’s. Just wait till you get your hands on one!

by Dave
So, we have established that SC has some sick trails… well they also take their social riding to a whole new level. Our friends Troy and Hailey invited us on their wednesday night group ride. We left his house, rode across town, picked up two more guys, swung through the beer store, and loaded up our jersey pockets and camel backs with frosty cold brews, then embarked on a 45 minute, 2,500 foot, nauseating, climb to the summit of the UCSC campus. As we crested the summit, onto a big grassy meadow, we were met by about 50 other riders… all drinking beer! Laurel and I were miffed by this… we usually just drink a beer with the guys when we get back to the parking lot AFTER the ride!
The sun was getting low in the sky, and temps were dropping quick, so we hastily passed out samples of cycling salve for everyone to help heal their saddle sores and rock scrapes (gotta work, even we were playing!) We put back a cold one, and embarked on the gnarliest, most technical down hill of our lives! We both made it out, mostly unscathed, but it sure would have been nice to still be riding that plush Bionicon from last week!