What about coming down Black?
***New Years Eve GMT***
- Thread starter Pesqueeb
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The section of Black to Avery is pretty fun. But has some climbing.
A lot of riders hit Black by turning off Clawhammer on Maxwell Cove (5098) to Pressley Gap to ride middle and lower Black. So you could tack that onto the end if you still have some steam left. Start early and take lights...
I see doing Black from the left with all the hike-a-bike as the only thing I'm going to ride that day. Sooo much hiking...
But then you miss the top of Black, which is the best part..
I think I saw something about upper Black over on MTBR that there had been some re-working and filing in of said gnarly ditches.
Can confirm as of two days ago that no ditches have been filled.
Leaves don't count...
i enjoyed clawhammer to maxwell, left on black, then ride over all the way across the ridge, which will spill you right into the beginning of bennett, then down bennett - there are fun descents on the back of black and the way over to bemnett. and then BENNETT
Such weird weather. It was about 10 degrees colder in Golden than at Loveland... but the wind at the latter made up for that handily.
So you try to ride down the hike-a-bike section on Black ? Some of those switchbacks look like death on a cracker.
FOR REALZzzzzz
Local rider ate shit in one of the local parks (Briones) Sheriffs helo flew him from the trail to an ambulance where they took him to John Muir Trauma center with a major head injury and multiple broken bones
rescue video from the Starr 1 helo
rescue video from the Starr 1 helo
pretty sure there were some parts we hiked UP after turning left at the end of maxwell, but also pretty sure we didn’t walk down anything. but that was a few years ago...maybe it’s different now? and stop making me angry i’m not in teh pisgah!!!
Happy Happy everyone.
you too Jim!
Happy New Year everyone!!!
Hope you are all with someone you love, or at least care about, and have a fun and safe evening!
Hope you are all with someone you love, or at least care about, and have a fun and safe evening!
I hate when folks bring their friends to the Bongshed. I make a point of excluding bongshed members friends when the bongshed member is not present.... She ate 4 pieces of pizza before I told her to leave... I snatched the 5th piece out of her hand, otherwise I suspect she would have finished it off...
Finished off 2017 in high fashion. Had crap loads of projects to get done, finally said FTS and took the road bike out for a one hour all out effort before dark. Helmet straps were coated in a nice while layer of salt crust post ride. Salmon Stir fry for dinner. I would stay up late but I have a 5:30 am first pick up tomorrow, have to get those folks to dialysis on time.
year was good
Rode my bikes over 800 miles plus another 50 hours on the wind trainer, and according to my fit bit
Yearly Totals
should be interesting to see how I do at age 61 this year
year was good
Rode my bikes over 800 miles plus another 50 hours on the wind trainer, and according to my fit bit
Yearly Totals
- 5,711,649 steps
- 11809 floors
- 2,665.55 miles
- 1,345,882 calories
should be interesting to see how I do at age 61 this year
Bullet = dodged
Happy new year EST monkeys! Three more hours of 2017 still to go for me. I will see 2018 in the morning, I'm going to bed.
Haapy Death of 2017 !!
It's so cold here there were only a few volleys of celebratory gunfire to be heard downtown.
Climate change = gun control, who knew ?
It's so cold here there were only a few volleys of celebratory gunfire to be heard downtown.
Climate change = gun control, who knew ?
Yeah... so that's like 4 miles from me. And while HR is the sheltered yuppie land of Denver-metro, that apartment complex is only kind of HR. They are pretty much the only residential north of the highway still in the county or city. Kind of the red-headed step-child of our city.
How was it? I was in a hut in the woods at 11,600’ or so. It was nice up there, garbage snow but we made up for it with the party and digging out the summer fire pit and having an outdoor fire. Lady friend had an awesome time, it was her first hit trip. We did have to glue one stupid drunk guy’s head back together after he ate shot trying to get out of bed. Good times.It’s going to be a cold day at Loveland with @stoney and @Nick. @Full Trucker : join the 15 degree, 45 mph wind fun?
We mostly ripped down groomers since the snow wasn’t great. Flat light and windy... yet a good time nonetheless.
Jesus, I stopped at 11:57 on my ride last night high above the city here in Alaska and it was like WWIII when the clock struck midnight. To be honest, shit was blowing up during my entire ride, but it reached a steady rumble at 12 and was impressive to hear (fireworks are illegal here too). It was rather warm, in the 20 F range, pretty much Florida temps for us. The fireworks were cool to see, at least 3-4 legit displays and then all sorts of illegal ones shooting up like anti-aircraft fire.
Well, I do hate the rain, I'll ride all day in the snow because even if it's a freaking blizzard, I can stay dry. I do eventually get fed up and say F-it and then ride an run in the rain, but it's usually a last resort to keep sane. Seattle drizzle isn't nearly as bad, but full on rain? I'd rather it be 5 degrees and clear.
But all that's ok, because right now we are having more freezing rain (Thanks Obama
), so it's like the worst of every world.
One word regarding rain:
Bentonite
Bentonite
