Bedrock & Paradox

Yo. Alpina BC 2075s.  Couldn’t find ’em to try on or test, but they’re the blend of stiffness and flex I wanted.  Trying to have it all.My technique will no doubt need some work. Edit: It takes an (ex-) Alaskan to discover the truth, and the future. http://s3.moveon.org/swf/embed.swf Thanks Kelly.

Watch out.

After making the Sunday rounds of George, Tom, David, Maureen, et al; I’m not going to do what they’re all trying (poorly) to do: Obama will top 300 electoral votes, and have a 10+ % gap on McCain in the popular vote.  He will win at least one state that hasn’t gone Democratic since it…

After a day spent reading, cleaning, and in the library researching, that is what was needed this afternoon. Autumn is in full riot up in Rattlesnake Creek, though the larches confounded my efforts to capture the scene. I purposively headed out late enough to guarantee finishing in the dark.  The Switchback 3 has only been…

Thanks Meredith, I look forward to many, many more.

20 degrees (F) this morning walking to the hospital. We know what that means. 6.5 lbs, for both. Boots, climbing wires, kicker skins, snow; on that way.

Still hold a function in our world today: the formal public presentation and coming-out of a couple as a social unit.  A moment of self-definition.  Any cynics out there would have had their coolness put to rest this past weekend. E.L., friend of the bride, Texan, and now, canyoneer.   I don’t have many worthy…

The best Thai food in North America.* Moving sidewalks. Trees. Leaves. And then I won five dollars.

In the holy land. Best trails on the planet.   Yesterday was a perfect day for riding.  Perfect.  Bluebird in the way that, in my life, I’ve only seen over the Colorado Plateau.  Chill in the air, warmth of the sun.  The often sandy/gravely/slidy parts of Cassidy and Rich through the woods had sucked up…

On vacation.