A few friends and I ended up doing an 80 Mile out and back on the White Rim trail on Saturday. We had planned to do the loop but then through indecision, wanting to miss the bad sandy sections we kept hearing about, and then oversleeping the morning of, we had to go shorter. We even thought about doing it all by the full moon but it was a bit on the chilly side so we thopught we'd sleep a bit and then start by 6:00 to meet the other group who were going the other direction at around the half way point (Murphy's Hogback). When I noticed it was light out in the morning I knew we had blown it.

The other group (an annual birthday celebration ride for a friend) also made really good time, so we ended up meeting them when we were only about 40 Miles in. But no big deal.

Just a few recent shots of some fall colors and a minnow we caught in the ditch (and later released). Alden and I also went to Hartman's for some trail work but ended up just hiking around onthe new Free Fall reroute and riding Hogsback afterward.

2008-10-15 Update: a few from our after dinner ride to the creek in tonight's nice light. 

No advertising, no registration, no prizes. But some of the best riders around come to do the grueling 100 Mile CB Classic just for the fun or maybe the bragging rights. 

This year started off pretty chilly, got warm in the afternoon, and then rained for a lot of people's final lap. That part looked cold. Here are a bunch of photos I took, first from Deer Creek and then from a few spots on 401. The last few (without riders) are from Ohio Pass on the way home while many riders were still behind those mountains getting stormed on.

Great job everyone!

I had the pleasure of being on two of the three rides my boy insisted we do at Hartman's over the holiday weekend. It was really great to be out there with him sharing this thing I love to do and now he loves it as well.

He's really coming along and riding well. He can really climb! I couldn't get many action shots because he'd be gone if I stopped to take pictures.

We had a fun and fast (by my standards) Crest ride yesterday. It was a big group but without all the delays of any big groups I've ridden with before. My friend and workmate Tim came up from Taos to ride with the local crew. I think he had a good time!

Originally I was going to do Agate Creek because there was a big event on the Crest but we decided to just try and start in front of everyone. We didn't get it together fast  enough to start ahead, but after a few Miles we passed most of the (lots of) people ahead. I got stuck behind some slow motorcycles for a while which was kind of weird and annoying.Other than that and four flats among the group (none for me) it was a very smooth ride. 

I must have bumped the camera when I set up for the group shot. At least the only one I cut off was me!