SpaceCowgirl

7/19/11

truly wordless

Eszter did a pretty fantastic job of relating to you our 'magic-cracked-out-blissed-out ride through the woods' from last Saturday. I don't really have many words to add, but I do have a few more pictures. In all honesty, we were too engaged in a rock riding, tree flying, ridge climbing, soul singing, river skipping, lake jumping, high-altitude-loving, ride fest to take too many pictures.

All in all, we had a wildly successful adventure ride. One that absolutely tops the charts for me.

To add perspective on the BlissFactor of this ride -- to share with you the extent to which this loop (and in particular the last 10 miles of uberduffy, jaw-dropping-flowy, intricately designed, nicely choppy, and wildly FREE singletrack) lit up our MtbSoulFires, you will have to imagine this: after nameless hours worth of talkitytalk, singletrack talk, ctr talk, trail talk, sky talk, pony talk, and quiet-introspective talk:

as we rolled down the last 10 miles, we got quieter and quieter and quieter. it was so full of magic that words started falling apart, soul-excitement-expression became an act of just FLYING, and nothing could possibly be accurately expressed with words...

all the universe wanted from us was a bunch of cracked-out-fly-pony-grace through the woods.

we got to the very end of the trail, and just hugged.

thanks, ez... for all of that WiiiiildMtbBliss.

jj

7/11/11

more ridgeflying...

i am now officially behind on ride, hike, and rideflying reports.

so, pix from this saturday and part of sunday are just going to have to do. i seem to have misplaced my highflying ridgeline pix from the previous weekend. i'll get them up sometime soon.

7/5/11

Ridgeflying

best backpacking trip ever.

ever-ever.

Thank you, Starling.

and... ever see a white elk?

More later... much more later. 550 pix of 3 days, 2 nights, summits and summits and endless ridge lines of grassy, rocky, snowy, mtn goaty, elky, flowery more worth of more.

Jj

7/1/11

HAWTTTTT!!!!

i promised you more... so here you go!

Friday: 100 degree ride with the LW powerhouse. thanks for the heat-riding (heat-recovering) lesson, oh great-one!!! (see the very few evening pix in the show below).

Saturday: The Infinite Smile Day with Cat, LW, MyssL. (all the GREEN pix are from Saturday).

Sunday: A cracked-out mtbBlissSession with LW. Strawberries, grapes and blackberries in the shade at the far arc of the new-trail ride. Hot. And Hawt. And Happy.

Thank you, MyssLenore, LW, and CAT. For all the blisssssnessss...

MtbOn!

jj

6/23/11

honestly...

honestly, i have been riding, and playing, and generally flying through this beautiful summer.

i've taken very, very few pictures... and i have not spent much time trying to attach words to the rides, the pix ... the anything.

so, how about a couple of slide shows!!!

6.18-19.11 saturday date ride, and sunday convergence-ride with Fred M:
as you will note, almost all of saturday pix (but one) pic were taken while recovering at the bar ... i mean, outside of absolute bikes while watching the river dudes do their river thing. the flowers were incredible.

our saturday ride was perfect. we had a nice ride from town, some serious climbing on a 2x road, some sOOOOOper fun contoury singletrack, and some other fun trail hunting bliss. ca-ching! nice way to come off of 2 weeks of solid WORK. wwwhhheee!!!!

our sunday ride was spectacarific, too! we escorted Fred up marshall pass and down starvation... all new to him. what a pleasure it was to ride and talk with this bright soul!!! his new bike is sssaaasssssyyyy!!! and yes walt, i want one. thank you, fred, for your company and your inspirations!!!

6.5.11 BliSS ride with Ez:
a few weeks ago i had the distinct pleasure of escorting eszter on a sparkler hunting ride. thankfully, she kinda found her sparklers the day before by crackin' out on her home-town trails, and taking the win at the SSUSA in Ned (yes, i called her Miss SS USA all day, and have visions of a nice little sash that i think she should wear).

anyway. as you will see from these very limited photos, i spent most of my day riding behind her. i had no little ring, and spent the day slow-pedaling in a whole new way. it was glorious. we had an odd day of fire-air. it was hazy, smoky, and otherwise WEIRD out. as noted in her blog post, she requested that we do this particular ride ... what i didn't realize was that she had very little recollection of what the whole loop included. we had a great day. we had a great long day. we were happy-happy-happy for most of the ride .. and happy-happy-happy at the end when she pulled out a huge steak and some roasted beets for post-ride recovery food. mMMMmm!!!

and, despite work being overwhelmingly intense, i've had the opportunity to blast out for a few quick and dirty rides.... and to hook up some super fun commuter loops on the mtb, linking up the various DIRT trail systems along with some linkage-bike-path action. i like creative mtb commute ideas.... i just wonder what a 4-hour mtb bike commute would do to the productivity of my day. thoughts.

and... that's all i've got. i should have more next week, i promise!

jj