Diary of Scott Morris

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Archive for November, 2003

Thanksgiving in Moab

We’re off to Moab for the break. It’s been three years since my last Moab trip, so I’m excited. It used to be a regular pilgrimage for me when I lived in Salt Lake City: an escape from the winter with its snowed over, icy trails. Now, for some strange reason, we’re heading north to [...]

Brrr…

It seems winter is here. Tucson is now, officially, the place to be. I’ve heard about inches of snow in SLC, Flagstaff, wherever… so I’m very grateful to be where I am, riding and happy. It’s even cold here. We finally got below freezing this morning. Saturday’s ride was on the chilly side, whether you’re [...]

CVPR

Our CVPR paper, “finding trails” (in Terraserver imagery) is done and submitted, at last. Now onto new things. Two rides out on Suburban Assault. On the first I realized the first Dick McGee switchback was ridable (I’ve never even attempted it before). A new possibility opened: riding the whole thing. On the second ride I [...]

Busy

11/16/03 I haven’t been this cold in some time. Once your hands and feet go numb while riding, they don’t come back. Odin and I set off for Green Mountain, with the ambitious aim of riding it backwards. But at the bottom of the Catalina Highway there was a flourescent sign that read “no bikes [...]

Rally

2do Rally de Montana in Hermosillo, Mexico. A 66k mountain bike race in the foothills near Hermosillo. 8000 pesos ($800) for first place, trailing off quickly down to fifth. Originally the race was supposed to be 100k, and it should be next year. The trip down was draining and difficult, as usual. We arrived to [...]

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Scott
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Lifelong mountain biker, trail mapper and programmer. Sometimes bikepacker, sometimes racer, sometimes GPS freak. I love to ride my bike, get out, see new things and push limits. More...


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