Trails I've Ridden


What My Wife Calls My Bragging Wall:

Ohio: CVNP Trails, Camp Tuscazoar, 2 Ton Falls, Medina Reagan, Royalview, Bedford, West Branch, Mohican, **Vulture’s Knob, Lake Hope, Alum Creek, Dillon, The Wilds, AEP Lands, Wayne National Forest/Marietta, Findley

Michigan Island Lake, Highland, Proud Lake, Hickory Glen, Novi Tree Farm, Addison Oaks, Merrill, Luton, Pontiac Lake, ***Potowatomi, Brighton, Yankee Springs, Fort Custer, ***Big M, North Country Trail segments Dilling to Marilla, Timber Creek/Freesoil, Baxter Bridge, Kipp Road, *Copper Harbor, Boyne Highlands, High Country Pathway, Bass River, Stoney Creek, Hungerford, Hines Trails, Bruno's Run, Marquette North and South, Harlow Lake

Florida Hannah State Park, Jacksonville

West Virginia ****Cooper’s Rock, **Davis, Slatyfork, Watters Smith, Two track to Wonder Falls/Big Sandy River Gorge, Big Bear, Mountwood, Kanawha, North Bend, Spruce Knob, Valley Falls, ***North Fork Mountain, Kennison Mountain**

Pennsylvania Moraine, Brady’s Run, Laurel Mountain, Tomlinson Run, Quebec Run, *Apollo/Roaring Run, Northpark, Bavington, Allegrippis, Blue Knob, 2 Mile Run, Tussey Mountain, Rothrock/Cooper's Gap, Kennerdell

Virginia **Carvin’s Cove, Massanutten, Elizabeth Furnace/Signal Knob Harrisonburg/Reddish Knob

New York Ellicottville

Maryland ***Gambrill/Frederick Watershed

North Carolina Dupont, Pisgah: Turkey Pen, ***Bennet Gap, ***Daniels Ridge, Bracken, Black Mountain, Long Branch. ***Kitsuma, Rocky Knob, *Dark Mountain, Warrior Creek

Arizona Sedona: Highline, Slim Shady

California *Sequel Demo

South Dakota *Storm Mountain, Tinton Trail

Utah: St. George/Hurricane: Zen, Barrel Roll/Suicidal tendencies, Gooseberry, Guacamole, JEM

**Brown County Indiana

* My favorites

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Classic 2Ton30Inch Pics


Artemis and the Pack

Monday, January 7, 2013

Today was back to the grind, like everybody else. But that also meant a good, old Hinckley Road ride with a nice sunset from the top of Wilbur Road. The sun is slowly making its way back north, like hope rising.
Froze my toes off as usual, but got in some nice climbs and saw a couple of hawks. I can never remember seeing a hawk as a kid, but now they are everywhere, I guess like rising hope, again. .
As I rode out of the driveway, I heard a dog barking maniacally (as Walsh likes to say) and looked up to see Supe looking out thru the window and wondering why she didn't get to go. That dog is gonna be a good one.
There was to be a convergence of the band of knaves called 2ton 30 inch for a "wrench session" at 6:30. I had no wrenching to do, just dirty bikes to clean, so I and Supe headed south.


















Despite the company of good friends, Supe remained un-enthused. I think she realized that dogs, by their very nature, will always be excluded from our manly club, due to their inability to consume the quantity.
Anyway, it was a good night to re-connect with friends.
Here's some more pics from the holidays, taken mostly by my lovely wife, who is taking much better pictures than i am lately, and it's making me nervous:

 That's the kind of stuff we see at Manistee (I hesitate to identify the location: it's kinda like this place or this place) I stood for a moment and felt the power of Lake Michigan. If my body was a battery, it charged fully.

It's funny; I can remember as a kid (like the hawks) traveling to Michigan for vacations. Then everybody seemed to want to go the the Atlantic coast and Carolinas for vacation in the 80s and 90s.

My pinhead takes away from the spectacle, but we saw the most amazing column of light as the sun set.

And the best picture of the trip:


Two fools, hunkered down, with Frankfort, Michigan in the background:












1 comment:

  1. I think half the key of takIng a good picture is showing up when no one else does....even if it means getting soaked in the rain or frostbit fingers....

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