Bedrock & Paradox

This day goes forth for rest. Gotta have it. Today I went to work, went to our teacher’s meeting, came home, hung out, and drank the above. Which is simply the best. My fav. Now I’m watching Lehrer, ribs baking in the oven, potatoes on the stove. Life is good. Also, happy 78th to Mike…

Courtesy of Ms. Malia McIlvenna. Cheers. The crew ready to roll in the parking lot. Canyoneering, moreso than most outdoor activities, attracts an interesting group of folks. On the second Freezefest-New Year’s trip through the Black Hole, two epic log jams were discovered. 70 feet tall, filling the entire canyon for 100 feet. Climbing over…

Now: define failure. Something I’ve had problems doing for years now. Yesterday evening: is it failure to cry uncle and get picked up when the ride took longer than I thought, my hands are freezing, and I’m facing riding through town in the dark with all the scary drivers out and about? Or is it…

…with more to come later. Right now I’m busy rehydrating before I pass out. 7 hours on the bike.4.5k vertical.Cold hands and feet.Lots of wandering around to find an obscure FS road. Stellar climbing and descending on said road.Unique trail conditions: slippery sand and hard cow-postholes?! (simultaneously)Lost the “road” 50 minutes of bushwacking with the…

Always tricky, as Chris has noted, to switch gears after you spent most of the week gettin’ psyched to ride in the cold. This AZ morning, however, its crisp and sunny and blue. I woke up in my very nice bed (we finally found a proper mattress last month at a thrift store, $60 got…

Anyone care to identify the Rob Redford film in question? Just read Chris P’s tale of his WRIAD trip last February. Weird. The trip itself sounds epic, what’s weird is that I’m almost exactly a year older than him. My bday is in fact 2/10, but my AZ license says 2/11 because Meredith misrecalled it.…

The ancient Greek philosopher, interpreter and recorder of Socrates, and as such the single most important author in the history of western thought. Apocryphly sourced for the quotation; “He was a wise man who invented beer.” Anyone want to point me towards a dialogue for that one? Not that we’re doubting, really reading the Symposium…

Right now I’m waiting for the weather to happen, to find out if I’ll be riding the White Rim this saturday with Chris and Dave. Waiting, and waiting…… I’ve never been very patient. In any case, I need to track down some better shoe covers, if the ride goes on it’ll be COLD. I do…

Hauled myself out of bed at 0505, ate breakfast, and rode up to work. Making this a habit will be fabulous training, in the ~15 miles up here (a very rough guess) there’s almost 1.5k of climbing, and about 4oo’ of descent. My legs are still roughed up from skiing saturday, and never really loosened…

Found the north Kaibab FS map at a new outdoor store in the area, one which nicely is open on Sunday. Some good options for the northern part of the loop, it’ll be a bit until I can check it out. This is turning into a fun project.