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Gary

my pronouns are hag/gis
Aug 27, 2002
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Damp muddy Scottish winter local XC ride from the front door...
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Near the start of the ride approaching sunset... Finished off in the dark with lights.
Mate took the pic
 
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toodles

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Aug 24, 2004
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that was almost always the case after a night ride but unfortunately the local pub was a casualty of lockdown.
RIP
Our Wednesday night ride gets shorter and shorter in summer. Everyone just wants to get out of the heat and into the pub haha
 

Gary

my pronouns are hag/gis
Aug 27, 2002
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We had a regular Thursday night ride. Usually somewhere between six to twelve of us would turn up. Now there's no pub. There's no regular night ride at all.
Coincidence? I think not.
 

toodles

ridiculously corgi proportioned
Aug 24, 2004
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We just bring the pub to the trails.

Win win
My old camelbak mule was awesome for that. If you filled the bladder with ice and water you could tuck like 3 or 4 cans in the insulated sleeve as well and they'd stay frosty for an hour or two.
 

bullcrew

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LOL, I know that to you for your local climate that's "mud".
But genuine ROFLMAO!!!!!!
you dessert dwellers have no idea. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Oh I'm from Woodinville Washington lol I know mud, clay, wet roots and snot slick rocky terrain..
I agree on desert dwellers and the amazing funk of the NW!, they do have some nasty shit in patches...
I will give that part of it credit, it doesn't shed....the rest is pretty fluid and can wash off in next puddle really well..
We have the pea gravel and grit that gets flicked up and in-between links and right spots...just sits there crunching the whole time...lol an awful sound ..

That said we have this red dirt that literally gums up tires and you just slide, reminds me of clay but not as greasy...that rock chute has that crap mud before it and in and out of areas it catches...
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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Oh I'm from Woodinville Washington lol I know mud, clay, wet roots and snot slick rocky terrain..
I agree on desert dwellers and the amazing funk of the NW!, they do have some nasty shit in patches...
I will give that part of it credit, it doesn't shed....the rest is pretty fluid and can wash off in next puddle really well..
We have the pea gravel and grit that gets flicked up and in-between links and right spots...just sits there crunching the whole time...lol an awful sound ..

That said we have this red dirt that literally gums up tires and you just slide, reminds me of clay but not as greasy...that rock chute has that crap mud before it and in and out of areas it catches...
I haven't seen real clay anywhere in WA, would make sense in areas lakeside.

No mud is as bad as the alluvial soils in the great basin.
 

bullcrew

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I haven't seen real clay anywhere in WA, would make sense in areas lakeside.

No mud is as bad as the alluvial soils in the great basin.
Yeah it's there and grey, greasy as hell and as kids you can make shapes out of it and throw it at each other...

Washington has plenty of lakes, rivers and wetlands about everywhere.(Place is nothing but bodies of water or water falling from sky 300 days a year)..we had it in my back yard in Woodinville growing up...when they came to do our landscaping and sod they dug up patches and we had a pet mole that summer who got displaced...

Haven't seen alluvial soils but clay I have ..

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Andeh

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Yep, I grew up in same town (small world!), and we definitely had clay in the woods out back. Basically peanut butter once you got down through about 6" of organic loam.
 

bullcrew

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Yep, I grew up in same town (small world!), and we definitely had clay in the woods out back. Basically peanut butter once you got down through about 6" of organic loam.
Yeah grew up 15724 ne 157th, Woodinville
Up on Hollywood hills. In Farmington meadows , .
Loved growing up there...

Spent a lot of time playing soccer and baseball all over the NW...Played wa select soccer did a lot of trips to Canada for soccer exchange, boxed in kirkland, hell I even played competitive racquet ball at the athletic club there as a kid for speed and cardio.


Started at Hollywood hills elementary lol (that was a long time ago)...my buddy's Brandon and Tony blew up the principles office at Woodinville high in summer as a prank..was supposed to be his desk and it ended up his whole office.

We actually looked at moving back there, but wifes with UCSD medical so she's vested ..so we will run out the clock and sell then decide where we reside...she wants to explore coasta rica, phillipines, Belize etc and look to buy abroad....I want kona kai or northern California in redwoods..id settle with Anacortes wa or San Juan islands as a back up plan.

amazing place to grow up and have a lot of good friends still ..
 
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