Diary of Scott Morris

Diary of Scott Morris

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Archive for October, 2004

Foggiest clue

This morning was cold and shock, foggy. Well, what is a poor boy to do but go ride in it? I could barely see across the street. As I neared the river trail it got even more dense (makes sense). Cars stopped passing me; I almost ran a stop sign because I couldn’t see it. [...]

Finding Trails

I am once again hammering away at TopoFusion trying to find trails in aerial photographs (automatically). This has been an ongoing project that receives concentrated bursts of effort about once a year (hmm, couldn’t be due to a conference deadline, could it?). Things are progressing, if slowly. I do tire easily of so much programming. [...]

Santa Ritas SUR

Dark red clouds frame the Santa Cruz river valley. Paula left around 6am for Bisbee. I was up slightly later, feeling tired and not of epic quality. But I was very excited to get down to the Santa Ritas and ride with Lee. The route we had planned had too many good qualities. A return [...]

AZT flag

The sun sets over the Rincon Valley. Mark, Steve and I finished flagging out ~2 miles of trail for Sunday’s trail building party. We met at 1pm and did not finish until near dark (see above shot). It turned out to be a bit of a long day after Steve’s truck got its second flat [...]

Evening Rides

My allergies on evening rides are still not being very kind. It was tolerable today, but sneezing while riding is generally a bad sign. I watched the shadows grow on Pontotoc Ridge as I climbed towards the “Dick McGee” trailhead. I made it to the top of the switchbacks just in time to watch the [...]

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Scott
Tucson, AZ



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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