[quote]soldog wrote:
The 1574 was the cumulative elevation gain I did for the total ride. I use that as a gauge of difficulty. The ride happened between 7-8000 feet altitude[/quote]
Excellent ride…
I’m off for my weekend “Hut” mountain biking trip. See y’all in a few…
You deserve a nice break after the week you’ve had. Have a great time!
Good looking squat numbers and you have gained some good size in the year or so since you have been doing this. Impressive.
I’ll be there in a couple of years, George. My son is almost 12 and already starting to behave “badly” at times. Good boy, overall, but I can see some of the shit coming.
It looks like you lift next Sunday morning. I’m hoping to sneak over for a bit. If so, I’ll vid your lifts and post them here if you’d like.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I’ll be there in a couple of years, George. My son is almost 12 and already starting to behave “badly” at times. Good boy, overall, but I can see some of the shit coming.
It looks like you lift next Sunday morning. I’m hoping to sneak over for a bit. If so, I’ll vid your lifts and post them here if you’d like.[/quote]
Yep- Sunday morning it is. It would be great to see you there and have you video my lifts. If you use my camera, I’ll take care of the upload.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
You deserve a nice break after the week you’ve had. Have a great time![/quote]
Thanks Kimba! I did have a great time - description, pics and video coming up…
Polar Star Hut trip
Edit: see below
[quote]soldog wrote:
Polar Star Hut trip
24.8 miles over 3 days, biking, hiking and biking again
4263 feet of cumulative elevation gain
12454 Max Altitude
Friday we rode the Mtn bikes up to the Hut from the Yeoman park trailhead. Took around 2.5 hours and was the first 9 miles of the altitude plot. Saturday we hiked around New York Mountain. here is a panoramic video from the first summit at about 12 miles in on the altitude plot:
Today we were going to ride down to the trailhead and around the area but overnight a tree blew down across to the road. While waiting for the forest service to show up, I took the ax and almost had the tree ready to roll off the road so we could get through. I took about 90 minutes to cut through both ends and trim the branches off.[/quote]
The tree…
This got me in trouble with the group leader, (a friend of 12 years), He thought I endangered myself and the group by preforming this selfish and unnecessary activity. He said I also embarrassed him because he went to the trouble of calling 911 and getting the forest service to respond to cut up the tree. Hell I was just having some fun doing something that I’ve done for years, endangering no-one and working towards the goal of clearing the road. I will never understand the sit back and let someone else “rescue” attitude. Especially when you can take action to rescue yourself, even if it is ultimately unnecessary.
Looks like it was a great trip. And nothing wrong with a little “unnecessary” gpp.
[quote]soldog wrote:
The tree…
This got me in trouble with the group leader, (a friend of 12 years), He thought I endangered myself and the group by preforming this selfish and unnecessary activity. He said I also embarrassed him because he went to the trouble of calling 911 and getting the forest service to respond to cut up the tree. Hell I was just having some fun doing something that I’ve done for years, endangering no-one and working towards the goal of clearing the road. I will never understand the sit back and let someone else “rescue” attitude. Especially when you can take action to rescue yourself, even if it is ultimately unnecessary.[/quote]
The pictures are beautiful. I also fail to see how your helping to clear the tree was endangering anyone. The only way it could be seen as embarrassing is if you did it without pants. You didn’t do that did you? People who wait to get rescued get eaten by bears.
Beautiful pictures, looks like a good time. Would have really embarassed the guy if you’d lifted the tree on your shoulders and walked it off.
[quote]soldog wrote:
The tree…
This got me in trouble with the group leader, (a friend of 12 years), He thought I endangered myself and the group by preforming this selfish and unnecessary activity. He said I also embarrassed him because he went to the trouble of calling 911 and getting the forest service to respond to cut up the tree. Hell I was just having some fun doing something that I’ve done for years, endangering no-one and working towards the goal of clearing the road. I will never understand the sit back and let someone else “rescue” attitude. Especially when you can take action to rescue yourself, even if it is ultimately unnecessary.[/quote]
Great pics! Between you and Jack, I am suffering from serious wanderlust!
When I saw this pic, I wondered why you were the only one in it. Then I read the post and understood clearly. Thank you for doing us proud! I am still confused about the “selfish” part, though.
Ouroboro, you are so right. That’s just mother nature using her own to weed out the weak.
Hell I would have gotten under that fallen tree and tried to squat it. That would have really pissed him off. Great pictures.