Sunday I made arrangements to meet TrailDoc for a ride on Monday. I drove to his house near Mtn Bike Heaven. His friend, Doug joined us. Today’s ride is a repeat of Damifino way up on an unamed sandstone peak shoulder like we did Sat after christmas. All snow gone and just several water ice slips back around on the north face.
More of same tech “trails” w/ me still doing a lot of walking. Up high there is exposure that ups the grip factor of a possible fall. TrailDoc is an excellent rider. Several times on the ride those 2 got into a FOX news rant about us liberals loving everybody vs being at war w/ terrorists and the solution is military defeat. They have their points.
Oh, and the Over the Edge company is in Sedona. Quentin, DJ, & Dave are here as is Troy, the owner of the big company from Fruita, CO. John knows Troy and he offered to lead then on a ride Tuesday. I exchanged greetings w/ the Hurricane folks.
John drove to TH stopping first @ his food cache, BurgerKing. Blocking our road was a woman who had backed her car into the ditch. We helper her out.
The ride took us back to BurgerKing where John & Doug stopped for refueling. I picked myself to ride back to TH and drive John’s car back to BK. Upon returning to BK those two were almost sedated, maybe satiated as they ate 3 each whopper meals on a free promotion. Doug bought me an evil order of french fries for me.
John treated us again to his condo spa. We cooked ourselves past welldone in steam bath & hot tub. We were toasted. Walking out to car was walking gumbies.
Drove back to Deer Pass rd USFS campspot.
This AM after the sun cleared the ridge a hot air balloon passed overhead.
Today is a rest day. I made a list of things to do. I rescheduled my frame ship date to end of month to allow for PUSHing the shock & hopefully my new wheel will arrive. I went w/ the 20mm dia axle and a heavier duty rim to take advantage of the strengths of the new frame.
I previously selected a dentist thru the ARRP Deltal Dental coverage. I called b4 lunch and asked to make an appointment. Pam said she had a 1:00 today. I jumped on it.
Drove into town. I stopped @ a clinic to have my BP checked. They wouldn’t do it. I stopped @ a quick check and asked. I was told if it was high I would have to see the dr. Checked w/ the manual method, darn, another 100/ 60 w/ a 55 bpm pulse. Been off the BP med for 3 weeks. Good to go.
Visited w/ Dean who makes the flyswatter $600 flat pedals. Flat pedals appear to be the ticket for technical riding here as it allows for vey quickly putting a foot down. Yesterday I stalled between 2 rocks about knee high. I started to fall to my left. I twisted my left foot to release my foot from my Eggbeaters. Because of the rocks I did not have enough room to twist out. I continued to fall and landed on my side. I am building a case of flat pedals and skate shoes only for Sedona. I bought leg armor for here. No, I won’t spring for Dean’s pedals.
Thorough dental exam & cleaning. Very modern clinic. They can turn a ceramic crown in 3 hours same day thru digital data sent to mill that cuts it from a block. No dental work required. $235 about the cost of 6 months of insurance. Told the dentist about my One Peak a Year experience and how my dental work that time was paid for in trade for me guiding them up Rainier. 8 people split the $235 bill which became my standard charge for other climbs.
Stopped @ Oak Creek brew pub which is in their brewing building. Their Nut Brown is very tasty. While there this guy started a conversation about long distance road riding. We compared notes on his biking and my hiking the PCT. Pretty interesting conversation, much better and broader than nuke the terrorists.
Back out @ Deer Pass. Zags play tonight, watch the TV broadcast on my computer. Speed is slow and quite a bit is lost but better than just listening to radio if I could find it.
Tomorrow is another MBH shop ride. Forecast is for 30% chance of showers.
Haven’t been invited to join the OTE folks for a ride.
Learning some insides to mountain bike trails around Sedona. Legalizing existing trails and making legal ones are looking up. Strange bedfellows is the USFS person & an underground trail builder. And another rider performing 600 hours of community work. Cool. Hard riding here.