Last night I camped @ a different spot @ Beaverhead for variation. This site is not as level but is less exposed on the skyline. Today i am to deliver 2 breakfast burritos to BnB to pay for my fork switching. I made 9:04AM delivery. Next was laundry in west Sedona. Clean clothes restocked.
I parked @ the library on Dry Creek road for my ride out Dry Creek drainage. No h2o is flowing because because no rain has fallen to feed it. Interesting w/ the warm temps snow is melting in Flag and flowing down Dry Beaver and Oak Creeks. Plan is to ride Chuck Wagon over to Mescal then down Canyon of Fools then find way back to Dry Creek rd. Learning how fork behaves after service, not as plush as Pike. I rode several spots previously walked. Chuck Wagon has been rerouted in fall line places for sustainability and dumbed down. Property owner fenced off entrance to Gunslinger but I wandered onto it. Mescal is shelf ride. Drop off and wiggle and waggle up and down till I hit Canyon of Fools that is a steep sided narrow wash w/ wall rides. Several places the runoff cut down leaving a narrow track. Wash dropped into Dawa that i rode until Arizona Cypress a short distance to Anaconda to climb out of Dry Creek and drop down to Dry Creek rd. 19 miles in 2 hrs 45 mins. Saw a group of 3 riders and a solo rider.
I scraped myself against several cut end of branches along the trails and bled a nice red color drip stripes.
Back @ van cleaned up. Drove to grocery store then out to Deer Pass rd for the night. Excellent weather forecast portends invasion of the ballooners tomorrow AM.
Another blue bird day of 71 degrees. The ground seems to have given up its night time chill. Just gorgeous conditions. And I am sucking it up.
Tomorrow is a BnB shop ride followed by partying.