Bruce and Jackie the biking-crazed terrier About Bruce Argyle

Bruce is UtahMountainBiking's website editor. He wrote all of the trail reviews, first-aid pages, and fix-it instructions, plus the majority of the feature articles. He shot most of the photos you'll see on this web site.

Bruce has several mountain bikes -- including a Cannondale Scalpel race bike, a rebuilt K2 5000 ("Banana Thunder"), a Cannondale Prophet, and a couple of road bikes.   Favorite bike: whichever one isn't broken at the moment.  Favorite ride: Gooseberry Mesa.  Favorite statistics: Gold Medal Mountain Bike Hillclimb World Senior Games 2007, 2nd Place 2007 Intermountain Cup Racing Series Men's 57-plus Division, 2nd Place 2003 Intermountain Cup Racing Series Men's 50-plus Division.

Brucie and Jackie... Does anybody who love YOU enough to run 20 miles behind your bike, then lick the sweat off your ankles?
Bruce is the "explorer" of UtahMountainBiking.com. He checks out the trails, often with only Jackie for company. When you see photos of a trail with no human being in sight, chances are the Doc was there all by himself. Big Bad Bruce puts in a lot of miles, riding often but not well, and breaks a lot of bike parts.

Bruce, dropping a big'un at Little Creek.

Yikes!
Argyle Family, Christmas 2000

The Biker Power workout DVD, one of the toughest trainer workouts ever made, stars Bruce exercising on his bike on the trails above Park City. He also films and edits the video shorts found on this web site.

Bruce lives in Alpine, a small village between Salt Lake City and Provo, just outside the border of the Lone Peak Wilderness. He has seven children, plus a hyperactive little dog.

Left to right: Brian, Steve, Kristen, Diane, Jackie (the dog), Bruce, Gary, Jessica, Mark, and Alex.  Nice looking, well-mannered kids -- his wife's genes at work.
A compulsive collector of new hobbies, Bruce is an accomplished underwater photographer and videographer. Other time-wasters include painting, backcountry hiking, sailboarding, waterskiing, and snow skiing. But he doesn't write poetry.

Stalking a photo opportunity in the kelp of California's Channel Islands.

Bruce is a board-certified emergency physician at Salt Lake City's Alta View and Cottonwood Hospitals. He's served as chairman of the Emergency Department at Orem Hospital and at Cottonwood Hospital, paramedic medical director, Medical Staff President, member of the hospital Board of Governors, President of the Utah Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and president of his 70-physician emergency medicine group.  Bruce rides his bike frequently, because that's the best use of his valuable time.
Surprising for a guy who frequently falls off his bike onto his head, Doc Argyle is one of the world's foremost medical-simulation programmers. He completed work on the award-winning cardiac resuscitation simulator "Cardiac Arrest!" in 1985 and founded Mad Scientist Software to publish it. His work includes 6 emergency medicine training programs, 4 medical textbooks, and patient education software.
Water skiing at Utah's carp farm: Utah Lake. Bruce is an old fa...  well, he's a "mature biker." For a quick history of his earlier years, click here to see his 50th birthday page from a few years ago.

If you think you might be related, click here for a brief genealogy! 

Going airborne on the South Fork!
Above right: Taking a little air in the November snow of Deer Creek South Fork. Above left: Exulting after a water-skiing run on Utah "Carp Farm" Lake. 

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