Shrinking snow patches still lurk in the deep shadows here @ Beaverhead. Hi Line because it is north facing is still snow covered. Riders coming back are way muddier than they should be riding on the trails. Just hanging.
Today was my 9:30 appointment w/ Floyd to groom my mane. He was the last to cut on me since last end of April. See what a cleaned up guy looks like, You have no choice.
Hey, I’m 65, the white and wrinkles just grew. Lack of hair runs in the genes.
Then I drove up to Sedona to connect w/ people. First was Dave @ Fat Tire, another favorite place to hang out. His shop is also a magnet for other riders, today there was a guy from Mass that I met last year. Dave is good for an intellectual conversation, he the knowledgeable professor and me the questioning student.
Next was Shama, a woman I have visited w/ in the past. Success. She wrote her phone number for me. Tea after her work as a graphics designer. Be still my heart.
Next was the computer shop to figure out external data storage. I am known there. Tomorrow i receive the restored files from my crashed computer. What is there will be there, I do not know of what was lost.
Then the physical therapy office to set up an appointment after my DR appointment for the script next week.
Connections made I drove back down to Bike and Bean w/ the driver’s window down and no heat. 72 degrees.
This small Southwest corner of the US is where good riding weather is in the entire US which is like a candle for a moth as riders I have met elsewhere come here. There are many others that visit here that I do not know. Today it was Heidi sort of living in her Dodge van which is a Sprinter like rig. Then Fuzzy from Bend escaping snow.
Scott at the Bean serviced my Lev KS seat dropper post returning it to out of the box condition. Deteriorating performance takes so long to be noticed that it becomes accepted. The seat drops w/ just a gentle push on the lever. He also service the Industry 9 rear hub. I see very very few I9 wheels. I9 is in Asheville, NC. Beth from same city riders them. A trek rep who lives near Brevard uses the hubs instead of the hubs Trek supports. back east you just ride I9s.
I ordered on line a bottle of Hawaiian moonshine like I brought back. $32 for the bottle and $25 shipping from the island. Very smooth and made from the Ti plant root.
There are many dry trails in Tucson and Phoenix. The Tucson Mountains, South Mountain, Casa Grande Mountain, Gold Canyon and more have rocky low organic matter and non-clay soils so it dries fast. Different than the soils of northern AZ.