I met Kevin at his and Pam’s cafe @ noon
He’s holding pages from Bike mag article about Hurricane and his cafe. He negotiated a pic plug for his autograph on the article.
Shuttle ride was from downtown out to the upper JEM TH where I have been staying. We rode the new trails up top then crossed the road and rode Goulds Wash down to the highway then down into town. There was only 1 grunter hill climb.
Little Creek in the background. Raise your eyes, Kevin. Look ahead.
Ran into Jeff from up state whom I had ridden with over the years several times. He was in town putting a new bike deal together. He and Kevin are friends.
After the ride I took a shower @ Sunday deserted Anytime. Next move was to drive to Jacks in Springdale to watch the Seahawks late game and food. Draft beer is 3.2 for $4.5 and Moose Drool heavy beer for $5.50. Place had a bunch to TVs tuned to various afternoon games. Head bar tender is the wife of Bill whom I met several years ago when he was filling in at OTE. No Bill tonight. I watched the first half sensing that the game was in Seattle’s favor and drove to Rockville and crossed the Virgin River towards Grafton to a camp spot. Furnace trick was an oddity as it starts sometimes and others even after repeated restarts it still shows me its blinking red LED. I ran the catalytic over night. I am now several times a day pushing the fuel knob in and listen for the hiss of escaping propane that tells me it will light. At times I think about buying another catalytic heater and cycling this one thru factory repair to fix the sticky valve that they claim is from the bad propane west of the Miss.
I did not sleep well last night because of the pain in my mid back and now on my left front rib cage. I can expand my chest for a killer breath and a gentle sneeze. I am uncertain if all I did was damage muscles or worse case some internal organs. Tomorrow when i get up I will decide if a DR needs to evaluate me.
This AM I drove back towards Hurricane stopping at a local coffee roaster for a latte and a baked good. In walk 2 Jeffs: one from yesterday and the other from my crash last week. I was wearing (what else) my Pisgah jersey. A woman strode positively towards my table and making eye contact, I searching memory if i met her. She said no but she just got back from MT Pisgah in NC and is a mtn biker. She has a very firm handshake.
I drove back to OTE to wait for mail delivery of a hub part from Industry 9 and wrestle w/ tech support from Startlogic and MS to make this new computer like Outlook. Mail delivered the part and the 2 tech people I worked with took up almost the entire afternoon to make qa partial fix. This time an MS tech took over my computer allowing him to make the changes.
Joe Cocker died @ 70. Other musicians from the glory days of the 60s are getting up in their years and are dying off no longer from drug overdoses but maybe caused from years of that lifestyle. I’m 65 and not a musician, I am a mountain biker who is wearing out his parts, I will prolly die as a result of my activities. Keep pedaling I hear the devil on my wheel. Maybe an e-assist bike will add a few more years to my life.
Weather forecast said mostly sunny however late this afternoon a storm made a forceful entry dumping snow on Pine Valley mtns and a few drops of rain here. I decided to stay in town and not risk a forecast blunder of rain on the JEM TH road. I am camped (parked) back end facing Kevin and Pam’s cafe.
Gooseberry is right above the JEM trail. A new trail up here is named Goosebumps that intersects JEM and allows an uphill trail to avoid blind hike a bike sections on the JEM. Quite a lot of work to make this trail:
The trail descends from here down to the left edge of the ridge then around to the right. The trail is visible below. I walked one night almost to the ridge snout that took 25 mins, riding will be much faster.
My new laptop does not have a CD drive which allows for a thinner computer. I bought an external CD drive that i will test tonight to watch Anchorman as i wanted something stupid to entertain me.