I just wanted to ask the question.
last night the moon was in its house. This morning displayed a red sunrise. Both add up to changing wet weather. Today started out warmer and sunny.
I drove to Santa Clara. I parked on the pavement @ the corner. As I was getting ready a truck w/ bikes passed me and drove up the dirt road. I climb up a single track to same TH. Hard climb but last memory of the ride is a great downhill finish. I rode into the TH where Scott and Michele were getting ready to ride. We chatted. Our ride plans were identical which made for a social ride. Scott is an archeologist and Michele is a botanist. I could not generate questions for my subject matter experts. They are stronger riders on the uphill. Scott lead me up a move on barrel Roll that I rode for first time.
Great trail conditions. The single track climb @ the start was just the right tackiness. Barrel Roll was marvelous.
2 riders are somewhere in the pic. Trail switchbacked up to promontory way in center background.
S & M (names) drove down to my van. I gave them an open house tour. Nice people.
I drove to Golds gym for a fitness program free shower.
I drove over to Barnes and Noble hoping to pick up Hannah Coulter, another Wendell Berry novel. Score. Wendell Berry is such an excellent writer. His fiction books are about fictional Port William in KY right off the Ohio River. He writes about the way farming and small agrarian communities got on w/ their lives. Tragic is the loss of the “good old days”. Work was a venue for socialization. Sharing.
Back @ Hurricane and OTE I visited w/ Quentin. Dan and his wife stopped by. Fist I have seen Dan since last year. Dolores gave me a loaf of pumpkin bread.
Weather forecast is for rain and snow tonight and tomorrow. Christmas is to be nice but Thurs returns to more wet. No more Hurricane Rim ride. I plan on leaving for Sedona on Wed if the weather is favorable.
I am camped back in Hurricane because of the weather forecast.