Guacamole

Yesterday I drove down to ST George to ride Barrel Roll etc out Santa Clara way. I shopped @ Harmon’s store in town. As I walked around I felt wooozy and weak. Something is wrong, my cough still hangs around. I decided to go to an Insta Care out @ Santa Clara. Walked in, place had a 2 hr wait. I’ll drive back to Hurricane to an Insta Care there. In Santa Clara I bought tree ripened oranges from the guy who drives a horse trailer to CA and fills up several 4X4 boxes and sells them out of the trailer. Great oranges.

I drove by the Red Rock nature preserve N of ST George. Endangered desert tortoises require special fencing to keep them from becoming road kill:

Short fence

Back in Hurricane. The wait was 1 patient. DR examined me, said i have a virus that my body will just have to fight off. The 2 antibiotics should have killed bacteria, what remains is a virus. Lungs are clear, no concern of anything else. No limitations.

Thurs night I worked w/ Quentin and a GPS attempting to down load gps data from my computer. We couldn’t make the hardware talk. I accepted the challenge to make the data transfer work. After the DR exam I hung in the parking lot. I called Garmin tech support reaching a talking person pretty fast. Old guy spent perhaps 30 mins trying to make the transfer. No such happening. Perhaps it is my older model.

I googled healthy chicken recipes. I found a chicken and rice recipe as I had most of the ingredients. I didn’t buy the full list which prevents supply growth. Palatable.

I spent the night in town. Freeze thaw mud which most likely softens up the upper JEM TH camp spot so i stay in town. Hurricane sits in a depression. Cold weather, some people heat w/ firewood. The smoke hangs over the town. I didn’t like breathing the smoke. 21 degrees.

Today Quentin is leading an Over the Edge shop ride to Guacamole. Several riders were tourons. Doug is from Twin Falls, we talked about the Indian Springs trails and the builders.  I rode w/ Quentin and DJ. The dirt was frozen on the way in. We parked below the climb up to the mesa to avoid sliding down the thawed mud. Our ride started w a half mile undulating steep climb up to the mesa. The ride is a mesa ride linking out croppings of slick rock, step ups, roll up, roll downs, and hucks. I am still stymied by the abrupt step ups. Quentin is a stellar rider.

Typical slick rock. Zion NP in background. People in my picture.

Sunshine warmed the air and the ground creating freeze thaw mud. Challenging and slightly rewarding ride.

Back in town my new Pisgah Works jersey awaited me. I wore the first one out. The new one has my name patch sewed on. Thanks Bruce. Pisgahworks.com sells Pisgah branded items. Great jersey.

I drove into Washington City for a shower @ Community center. The drove out to desert Warner Valley. Tomorrow I will give Barrel Roll another go.