6 days out on the bike. The memories are flooding and flowing, ebbing. Some sections… well, many, turned into “quite a deal.” Plenty of water around, with many fords. 4 slot canyons of varying difficulty and highly variable suffering level. Not all were so easy… A normally benign slot can become anything but with a [...]
I was long overdue for a long ride. As the weekend grew near I didn’t really have a plan. Many good options, but none that captured my imagination. Late Friday I started ruminating on possible plans to meet Grand Enchantment Trail mastermind Brett Tucker. He’s currently on the trail and by my guesstimation should be [...]
First things first: if you want to map power, TopoFusion v3.31 has been released including all the new power stuff. There’s always lotsa talk about SS’ing. Not so much about GG’ing. Singlespeeding is (often) about forgoing the easier gears. If anything I’m moving in the opposite direction. I want more gears. Or not necessarily more [...]
Sweet(water) flowers. The Behemoth rides again. There’s a prize for finding three crested Saguaros in the preserve. This is #1. Damn wilderness boundaries. At last, a return to technical riding. Up Gnats, over to Milagrosa, up to the AZT, then turn around and float down Milagrosa. The return was not ignominious. I cracked a serious [...]
Good trails and exorbitant flowers in Tucson Mountain Park. It’s a good time to be alive. Poor light for photos, but the clouds kept the temperature at the perfecto setting. I didn’t bring (or need) any water for the 3 hour ride. My rib told me I’m still not ready to open the floodgates, so [...]
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