Sat night rain out @ Beaverhead Flats. Down below the Dry beaver creek flows not like it’s adjective, ever higher after last night’s rain.
Stopped @ B & B to return pedals borrowed for Grace. Jimmy & I shared thoughts that trails other than Sedona are boring. I was looking forward to Black Canyon trail for it’s pedaling & steering on a “smooth” tread. Once riding that excitement lasted about 20 mins and I was ready for chunky & some walk over. I will so miss riding here.
Made MBH, a fresh scrubbed woman in bike gear was looking to join the shop ride. She is from Cincinnati and way out of her league. Johny, Tim, Rama, the girl, & I headed out in a sucker hole. Plan was to ride the washes & stay nearby and out as long as we could tolerate the rain to fall. I was running late leaving even though I was first to arrive. I was living up to my moniker of Talkin Dude.
A white Sprinter w/ WA plates and a home conversion pulled into the parking lot. I might have approached the guy, Dave, to aggressively. He was back pedaling getting some space . I shared my story and he relaxed. He & his wife are on a 90 day tour of the US making DC visit to a child. They are from Winthrop. His van interior is like modular. He outfitted it w/ removable things. They cook etc outside. Idea works for him. They are mtn bikers. He said he had only today to ride in Sedona and it would be wet and maybe rain. They will miss out, the nature of traveling.
Clean clothes again.
Drove back down to VOC and a bar, PJs to watch Gonzaga basketball, WCC tournament. Had bar seat comfortably distanced from big screen TV but volume turned off for bar band. Zags won & music was listenable.
Camped @ B & B. Dean called asking for moving help. I volunteered for Mon ( Today) to help.
This AM I helped Dean load & unload, out from the old into the new. He has a large & heavy rock collection to move. Interesting things cast into the rock. Dean was a big part of the original Red Bull Rampage @ Bootleg Canyon. Dean is just now managing a bike shop in Cottonwood. Years earlier he had a shop in Springdale, UT outside Zion. Remember I met him on my trip thru back in ’98.
Wet day today. Sat is AZ Spring Fling ride in Sedona. An informal gathering of mtn bikers to ride several places as a moving festival. Weather dries up Thurs. Traildoc has a blood clot in his lung that broke loose from one of his legs. He had a worse go than i did w/ mine 3 years ago.
Grace made it back to Huntsville and her luggage is getting additional address tags put on as it is elsewhere. Sun was her 49th b-day.
New snow is landing on mountains above town; tops look like 6800′, are in wilderness & off limits to bikes.