Brought a small duffel of essentials and attached a Tangle, seat bag, top tube bag, and harness. Switched the bottle cage to a fork mount and borrowed another for the other side.
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Category: North America
Kane Creek/Pritchett Canyon Overnight
J and I only have a couple of days left before we leave, so I’ve proposed something dead easy, maybe relaxing, a little scenic: we’ll resupply, pedal out to Kane Creek Canyon, spend the night, then curl around Behind the Rocks to return to town via Pritchett Canyon.
Kokopelli Trail, Pt. 3
Can’t say how many times I’ve ridden this trail. But never in this light, the breathless excitement of fatigue and the end of our food, never with the whole desert rock sand cliff dusk warping wrapping around us like a well told fairytale.
Kokopelli Trail, Pt. 2
We nohurry some more, marvel at the skying walls, then off again.
Kokopelli Trail, Pt. 1
Set off into a radiance and wind afternoon.
New England Postcard
An ascent is somewhere between a denial and craving for it.
Virginia Postcard
Rappahannock County, rollered dirt road lattice, Blue Ridge on the horizon and our fingers and toes freeze but we don’t mind, what with the sapphire sky.
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Recollection
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Arizona photo album II
(And be sure to check out Gary’s photos, too.)