Category: N.O.S.
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1 week
Is all the time I have left. It’s difficult; on the one hand lingering into the twilight at work challenges a clean, well placed break, on the other, the many things left at home make leaving now an impossibility. Plus there is the extra cash to be earned, things to be done. In general I…
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I’ll play along
Not much to say about packing for moving, so I might as well generate some content. If you could have any one — and only one — bike in the world, what would it be?A Karate Monkey made of titanium. The KM can be built as anything, and ti won’t rust. I realize the question…
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Happy birthday M
This is just about the only photo I have on my lovely wife. She doesn’t like to be photographed, which is silly, because she’s really hot. I met her through friends of friends over five years ago, got to know her and started dating her in ballet class, married her that fall, and life has…
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Mount Union
A few things are still left on the list, that I haven’t yet done around here. One of them is summit Mount Union, at a hair less than 8k, it’s the highest point for 50+ miles around. A nice dirt road climb. Singlespeed city. Nice and pretty in the trees. Cool, too. The summit. Looking…
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Get psyched
Lots of fun stuff happening out there in the world recently, much of which has to do with the previous day’s discussion of future adventures. To whit: 1-This year’s AWC report appeared recently: After traveling separately along slightly different routes over the previous 4+ days, the two teams arrived at Circle Hot Springs at almost…
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This morning
Was beautiful. And now, 7 minutes later, it’s gone. I said the other day I’d ponder my options for future adventures, specifically next summer, so here is the short list as it stands today: -JMT fastpack-Hardrock 100 (if I get in!)-Great Divide Race/tour with Chad-hang around the Missoula area and enjoy summer, maybe do some…
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Burke would have wondered at this. And in 2008 he might have noticed that, if conservatism is as much a temperament as it is any particular set of policies, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both Democrats, have sounded more conservative than many Republicans….Indeed, some of what [McCain’s] detractors view as inconsistencies display a distinctly Burkean…
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Weekend in Flagstaff
Three day weekend; hardly enough time to say a temporary goodbye to the best town in Arizona. And what might be the best single riding area anywhere. That I’ve found; yet. Day 1 log crossing on the new “Secret” trail. Prototypical Flag. Big rings are punished. Day 2 we rode the first loop of the…
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Granite Mountain
Yesterday I finally got out and hiked Trail 261 to it’s end on the summit of Granite Mountain. I should not have waited this long. It’s a great 4+ mile hike, up from 5.5k to up above 7. I ran into this little dude, first one I’ve seen since living in AZ. The overlook has…
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So we went shopping this evening..
Jill’s got nothin’ on us. PS: Chad and I are rockin’ the Flag this Fri (my last “personal day”)-Sat-Sun. Come get some.
Bedrock & Paradox 