Month: June 2019

High Up On The Willow Creek Trail

June 29, 2019 Facts The Bus No Comments
We went on a great hike today with new pals. This has been a very wet year, all the creeks are rushing and the mosquitoes are abundant. Aspens and rocks and still snow. We crossed Willow Creek shoes on 3 times while descending plus a dip up top in the…

Bye Dale Ball

June 23, 2019 Facts Mountain Biking No Comments
Once was already too many times. Anyway, today I conclusively determined I never have to go back for a ride at Dale Ball. It’s obviously built for hiking with the never ending steep switchbacks that often come out of nowhere because of how common is super poor visibility. Plus the…

Running Around

June 22, 2019 Facts Mountain Biking Travelling No Comments
You get some wind here. Afternoons these days. The kind that’ll make those curtains blow straight. 🚌 I just returned following a ride at La Tirrra. This one, with the order for 2 of the down hills switched for good measure. It’s a ton of cornering on a loosie goosie…

At The Casino

June 20, 2019 Facts Improving Travelling No Comments
We spent the night at another nice place, maybe 15 minutes from Santa Fe. We’d planned on staying in the so called RV parking area at the hotel at which Amma will be. However, I’d read that maybe sleeping overnight wasn’t ok which prompted a call which confirmed the policy…

Reunion

June 19, 2019 Facts Mountain Biking The Bus Travelling No Comments
I seem to have a traveling companion, picked up in the Flagstaff area. One night there was some suspicious scratching and so on and then lo! I found the tell tale little turds. So I picked up a 4 pack of the billions sold (yes the package does say that)…

Sweetness

June 18, 2019 Facts Mountain Biking The Bus Travelling No Comments
Post breakfast I rode the Quaking Aspen Trail. Most of it that is: I entered from the campground, a bit up from actual beginning/ending. It’s a beauty, 4 stars for sure. Minus one star because there are downhill sections vis a vis grade/direction that are not steep enough to carry…

Quaking Aspen

June 17, 2019 Facts The Bus Travelling No Comments
Long drive from Flagstaff and it seems like most of it was in third gear. At 62-ish, which is basically where I drive, the bus is about 2100 rpms, which is low and means all the fluids and different radiators to keep things cool are not able to help as…

Moments

June 15, 2019 Culinary Facts Mountain Biking The Bus No Comments
The spare tire could sinch way up high if the muffler was moved. It sits just behind and parallel to the rear axle. It could go same orientation and as far to the rear or in the space between the port rear tires and bumper. No muffler shops open today;…

Loose Ends

June 14, 2019 Culinary Facts Mountain Biking The Bus No Comments
Post pancake plus coffee breakfast in the Home Depot parking lot, I got a haircut which included the always not relaxing getting the backside shaved with a blade, the remaining pieces for the battery shelf securing project and drove out to rendezvous with Tim for getting some odds and ends…

The Best Meal Ever

June 13, 2019 Culinary Facts Mountain Biking The Bus Travelling No Comments
I rode an out and back taste of the Walnut Canyon section of the AZT (https://www.trailforks.com/trails/azt-walnut-canyon/). That’s starting at the Walnut Canyon parking lot and going pretty much NE, turning around at the freeway. Beautiful area and fun ride and nearly always above 6500′ without trying. Being real, it was…