Category: N.O.S.
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Weekend Update
Epic day in Zion Saturday: navigation errors and various complexities put us in the Narrows at 2020, at the end of the road a bit before midnight. In season at Zion, one can only use the shuttle in the main canyon, and the last bus leaves at 2200. Ergo, we bivvied in the handicapped bathroom.…
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Vagaries and the weekend
Rollin’ out after work for a weekend of Zion canyons with Phillip, who is currently 1.5 semesters into figuring out how to manage outdoors habits whilst being in school full time. He used to be my partner in crime, working at Second Nature and living out of the trucks. Life has grown more complicated, but…
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Bring me all the muffins and bagels in the land..
..for victory is mine. List of victories today: -not having fucked up digits -finally setting up for use my year of the family time share (damn that sounds yuppie*). It didn’t work out for the CB 100, rather we’ll be in South Tahoe from 9/3-10. Freeloaders may be welcome, provided they either climb or ride…
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Mo’ stupid
Post rant yesterday, I did get out for a ride. Took a bottle and street clothes and spun around the hood for an hour, exploring the miasma of dead end streets. We live near the edge of town, in a large wash leading to an even larger wash a mile and a half east. All…
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Bike shop vagaries and other oddities
Bike shops can be a pain in the ass. While there are few things more satisfying than a mutual exchange of competence, experience, and respect between bike shop employee and customer, this is in my experience the exception rather than the rule. To whit, my own local options and the alternatives: 1) Small one-man local…
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Two Views of Spring
In the end I decided to tell my allergies to go fuck themselves, and had a good weekend. Yesterday was 3+ hours riding in Flag. We’ve got great riding all over town, and enormous potential for more. But the granite/volcanic/p-pine/aspen littoral is one of my favorites anywhere, and in Flag in particular. Riding up Shultz…
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Thanks Evan
My dear old, dull, catastrophic college climbing and drinking pal posted this the other day. I always found the newspaper cartoons to be very dull. If only everything worked this well. To be or not to be is the question today ( see Justice Kennedy’s “trail” of Hamlet here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/hamlet_03-29.html). The allergies have really been…
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Avarice
So, my hands hurt a lot after this past weekend. A hard day out, to be sure, but I want to continue having such days without being all jacked up, and plan for many this year. Maybe I should just get new gloves. Or perhaps I should go the more bling route and get one…
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Contrast
Driving home an hour ago I could see, through the shades of precip and slanted evening light, the layers of Mingus Mountain above town better than I ever have. Normally, you can’t see the forests for the trees at all, but stereotypically unideal conditions today proved unique. So to with the rest. When I have…
Bedrock & Paradox 