The furnace seemed to function correctly all night. several days ago I spun the control knob while it was trying to start to off then back to on. Furnace started on next spark and seems to be doing OK since. Last night I turned down the thermostat once I crawled into bed. Furnace must have cycled several times while I slept because when i woke up I turned the setting higher and the furnace kicked in.
Fixed Bfast and cleaned up then drove down to OTE for the Saturday shop ride. Down because I am camped @ 4265 and the shop is 2,xxx something. 10AM meeting time. 5 of us piled into the Old Farts shop truck for the drive out to Little Creek. The road has nasty parts in it that I don’t want to drive my van over and I don’t want to ride there by myself. Quentin squired the truck around and over truck tech features on the gravel road.
Little Creek is not recognized as a legal trail system. The riding area is mostly slick rock slabs, different than Moab. Quentin is a very skilled rider and he seeks the hard lines. I rode last as it were and sought more sedate lines. I am still very sore that the upper body moves caused me to grimace. Area is said to have the highest density of Indian artifacts. Petroglyphs:
Typical tread. Ponderosa pine forest. We were at 5,600′ 8.87 miles of tech challenges. I walked a few. My left upper rear back is hurt so that any upper body moves sent pain signals. ( I repeated myself).
Back to town for a shower and groceries then headed back to JEM.
Zags are on XM tonight, no TV coverage. Zags are ranked 8th in US and are playing a small school in Battle in Seattle, so insignificant that there is no national TV.
Tomorrow Kevin and I are going to do ride he wanted to do last Sunday: we will be dropped off here then ride the new trails up here then Goulds back to town which is riding the Hurricane Cliffs route backwards. I wonder how it will ride as this will be the first time to ride backwards.
Furnace just cycled on its own. last night it was 31 degrees outside and 56 inside w/ furnace running. Battery volts dropped to 11.42 volts the lowest I have seen and everything was working. Solar kicked in reversing the battery draw. I have a deep cell wet battery under the passenger’s seat and a gel battery underneath the floor. The solar collector charges these batteries; the alternator runs the engine, charges the engine battery and left overs go to the 2 camper batteries. Years ago the stereo was wired to the rig battery that ran down the battery 2 ties that required road side assistance to jump me.
Zags are on the XM.
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