Sunday, March 25, 2012

Well then 2012






I made the most of my time in one of my favorite places to hang and ride Tucson and mostly in the Oro valley area with about 4 trips either up Mount lemon or one time clock wise around the hole thing around 102 miles of epic pavement dirt and gravel and one hell of alot of climb in .
I hung out for some great rides with the cycling house up lemon around gates pass and up Madera Canyon. The dinners and company were great to share with them/
My last week in Tucson was good with Julie visiting and getting some great rides and hikes in. We visited the biosphere 2 which is a pretty neat of merchandise that the university of Arizona runs now.8 peeps lived in it surviving on what hey grew and harvested.
We got lots of lunge time in with the easy chairs reading and a gin an tonic or two. these things keep life balanced in my theory of thought.
I headed to Yuma from there and hung with my mom and Step Dad quite a bit with Mom having congestive hart faillier, pretty serious stuff so they threw a pacemaker and defibrillator in her so shes sort of race ready now just slow recovery.
Next I headed to Lake Mead and camped at Callville Bay Marina . Great place to rest with A beach a 20 min. hike to sand and water after a few long hauls on the bike. This worked for about 3 days then up the road to huricane with lots of tail wind from the valley of fire which has a totol moab feal. i hit the mountain bike trails just out of town that were s with The Jem trail loop, the Gould's rim and the hurricane rim trails oh there good. Today i trudged through the wind from hurricane to Zion canyon then up to the tunnels then back in mostly the 11 and 13 steady with killer push tail wind. Tomorrow the long road trip back to the zoo , see some of ye soon...