Phooey. My right cheek is a pin cushion of prickly pear spines as I rear ended sat down on same on botched attempt on Llama problem. I hit the approach with speed carrying me some ways up the ramp then I stalled and started sliding downhill. To stop reverse direction I sat to the right blindly as stopping was paramount. My right cheek was the stopping part on a prickly pear. I stood back up removing a generous quantity of spines attached to my shorts into my skin. The larger spines were easy to pull out of my flesh, others were either embedded in my liner or my skin. I dropped my drawers then felt for spines to pull out. I pulled out the spines that were on my saddle contact patch. Afterwards and still to now I bare my butt and feel for spines and blindly pinch what i hope is a spine. Nobody willing to face my naked butt to pull the remainders. Hazard of the locale.
Tues Doug lead 3 newbies to pleasures of social trails out western gateway trails. Matt and Alex were new to what they rode, they also put s hurt on Ground Control and Shithole, very skilled riders. Beautiful day, shorts top and bottom.
Monday I drove up to Flag via the canyon to visit primary care DR. A law breaking driver almost changed my locomotion to the DR by passing a truck on a double yellow line and only by me stopping did he avoid my grill. Could have been an ambulance ride. Flag is about 7,000′, above town is the highest peak in the state.
Weather here is now in a wet wash cycle. Yesterday forecast wanted rain at times during the day. Doug and I hiked other side of 89A down then returned up nasty herkinham. I stayed at the park for dinner. A short lived thunderstorm settled in shortly after we completed our hike. We beat the wet by less than 30 mins. Desert is now prolly to wet for my travel so I will be mixing pavement spots of the mall and Doug’s city driveway. I put the rain cover over my bike while the skies were still blue.
Zags host ST Mary’s tomorrow night, televised on espn, bar side watch at PJs.
Hunkered down at mall. Occasional squalls intermixed with teeny patches of blue.
Saga of house building on La Pine property as last 2 contractors I connected with are more expensive than I have funds for. Prices are in $300,000 for my small house. Sheesh how expensive small is.