Up there

Went for a hike.


Found a stream.


G stood in it and drank it.


I chilled a Dale's in it before drinking it.

Another perfect day. I will be back there on the Soulcraft, some super sweet singletrack was discovered...

The Effect

Lunch at The Mountain Sun on Saturday, and yes that is a full size plate...

Hours and hours of grinding up the gravel on the Spot Saturday morning were the cause.

Paradise

Nice that the gravel makes it a route less traveled.


Used up all the daylight on the way home Friday night.


And went back up first thing Sat am...

Falling

Feels like fall, low 40s in Ned this am. No colors like above yet, but there will be.

Quick stop at singletracks coffee and then up the hill on the Soulcraft. Cool air, sun shining, perfect morning. The gear felt big, but it always does going up the shelf.

Last night took a nice little detour on the road bike; 1k down to Ned, north and up 1k past Ward to Overland Ranch rd then down 4k thru Jamestown and out to 36. Great 2 hour commute, not much coasting along, made good use of the 53 x 11&12.

With the cool air, the mind wanders to winter, watched Hand Cut last night. Soon...

I have plans to grind up some gravel on the way home and over the weekend. Tough to beat time spent in 4 mile canyon, Switz Trail, and Gold Hill Rd. I just might earn myself a piece of pie.

Great Escape

Remove 'climb up a ladder' from your list of ways to escape a bear.

Can Beer

All the rage.



That picture is recycled from a camping trip earlier this summer, just like the cans


An ice cold can of High Life is still tough to beat.

Bobcat

Saw one this morning on the ride in to work, down near the Ned HS.

Wiki says they are 2 times the size of a house cat... More like 2 times the size of a 7 month old Berner. No picture since it seemed as though it was looking for a breakfast snack.

Day six in a row on the bike, the kankle will be defeated.

Hypocrite

Bet they wish they had just faced the music and missed the time cut.

If you ride for a company that picks up garbage, why not hang onto a team car going up the mtn, it is sort of like hanging on the back of a garbage truck picking up the trash. I wonder if their team car is actually a minature garbage truck??

But if you ride for a team called Ride Clean, and then you hang onto a team car so you can make it up the hill and inside the time cut... Well, then you are a complete hypocrite. You are not good enough to stay in the race, so you cheat. Maybe if you would have juiced up ahead of time you could have avoided cheating during the race?? Either way, nothing clean about it.

They did all get their names and sponsors names up in 'lights'. No such thing as bad publicity?

I think Kenny said it best with " You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em". Wait, that doesn't work, they did hold em... Guess they should have just folded em.

Performance

Bob Brown and some other people are ridng their bikes up and down a bunch of gravel roads way up in the mtns this weekend.

Why are there no stickers in that bathroom???

The superfan gear is packed and I am ready to see the performance.

Speaking of performance.

Performance

Another day

Another burger.



Ran out of beer, had to have it with white wine instead...

And another bear in the news.

Run

Run to the hills.
Run for your life!



Sunday am up on Mag, Eldo is in the background.

On a more serious note as they say on the Today show.

Bruins

Trash, and dog food, kills bears. And the people feeding them!

The other day

The other day

I met a bear




Doesn't look like much in the picture.

But it was.

A great big bear

And it was.

Ah way up there.

Stars

Destroy your hands.

Feed your soul.

Any questions?