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#1327
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Slackers!
*tsk tsk tsk*
*tsk tsk tsk*
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#1329
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#1330
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#1332
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That reminds me--last Wednesday I did a gravel cycling adventure. Well, a couple hundred feet.
There's a sunflower field near the river that I've never seen before. So, being the true road cyclist I decided to journey via bicycle.
This is what I saw.
It was late evening and the sunflowers were past peak. Still, I think I could have seen more blooms if I wondered down the pathway (there were other people doing the same). But it was too late to explore.
At sunset I was ~9 miles away from home and I don't have a front light. Oops. #CyclingAdventures
There's a sunflower field near the river that I've never seen before. So, being the true road cyclist I decided to journey via bicycle.
This is what I saw.
It was late evening and the sunflowers were past peak. Still, I think I could have seen more blooms if I wondered down the pathway (there were other people doing the same). But it was too late to explore.
At sunset I was ~9 miles away from home and I don't have a front light. Oops. #CyclingAdventures
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My neighborhood is in the international news in a not good way; two blocks from me, a woman called the police about a commotion in the alley. Police responded and, as the caller was standing at the driver's side door of the squad car, talking to the driver, the officer in the passenger seat shot and killed her. wtf?
#1337
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Reminds me, on the way home I saw a pack of rollerbladers on the MUP. The most I've ever seen. There most have been 20 of them. [MENTION=152967]Holly[/MENTION].
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My neighborhood is in the international news in a not good way; two blocks from me, a woman called the police about a commotion in the alley. Police responded and, as the caller was standing at the driver's side door of the squad car, talking to the driver, the officer in the passenger seat shot and killed her. wtf?
#1339
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My neighborhood is in the international news in a not good way; two blocks from me, a woman called the police about a commotion in the alley. Police responded and, as the caller was standing at the driver's side door of the squad car, talking to the driver, the officer in the passenger seat shot and killed her. wtf?
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And this is just days after the Mpls police responded to a home security alarm and shot the homeowner's dog in their own yard (which there is video of, and the dogs were totally non-threatening). Ugh.
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Twenty miles and 2000 ft climbing for me this morning on the mountain bike. Went down to Malibu and starting climbing from Sycamore Canyon Campground, which is right on the PCH. Two friends shepherded me around, haha I still need other people there just in case we need to call 911.
First we climbed up Overlook Trail, which is a pretty straightforward fire road, except for the steep rocky bits. And the washed out bits.
Then a little singletrack climbing, basic stuff, and a descent on that same trail. Some pretty easy rock gardens and switchbacks (not too steep), it would have been very doable except that large sections of the trail were washed out. You'd come around a curve and there'd suddenly be hardly any trail- maybe two 8 inch deep ruts with 6 inches of trail left in the middle, or a 10 inch deep rut with steep sides so you'd have to ride right on the very edge of the trail, risking pedal strike uphill or falling of the precipice downhill. It was actually rideable but between the washed out sections superimposed over the rocky sections, I kept stopping to take a look. Then it was hard to restart, you really needed a little speed to ride on the sloped sections on either side of the rut. I wound up walking 25% of the trail, it was annoying. But improvement in that none of it freaked me out, it just irritated me. Guadalscara Trail, BTW.
Then some more fire road climbing leading to some easy single track descending on Sin Nombre and Two Foxes Trails.
It was pretty fun, except for the annoying part. It was no Big Bear. But pretty fun. I'm kind of smitten with mountain biking of late.
View of Pacific Ocean from the Overlook Trail:
https://flic.kr/p/VwZoDx
Edited: frustrating. The link won't imbed for some reason.
First we climbed up Overlook Trail, which is a pretty straightforward fire road, except for the steep rocky bits. And the washed out bits.
Then a little singletrack climbing, basic stuff, and a descent on that same trail. Some pretty easy rock gardens and switchbacks (not too steep), it would have been very doable except that large sections of the trail were washed out. You'd come around a curve and there'd suddenly be hardly any trail- maybe two 8 inch deep ruts with 6 inches of trail left in the middle, or a 10 inch deep rut with steep sides so you'd have to ride right on the very edge of the trail, risking pedal strike uphill or falling of the precipice downhill. It was actually rideable but between the washed out sections superimposed over the rocky sections, I kept stopping to take a look. Then it was hard to restart, you really needed a little speed to ride on the sloped sections on either side of the rut. I wound up walking 25% of the trail, it was annoying. But improvement in that none of it freaked me out, it just irritated me. Guadalscara Trail, BTW.
Then some more fire road climbing leading to some easy single track descending on Sin Nombre and Two Foxes Trails.
It was pretty fun, except for the annoying part. It was no Big Bear. But pretty fun. I'm kind of smitten with mountain biking of late.
View of Pacific Ocean from the Overlook Trail:
https://flic.kr/p/VwZoDx
Edited: frustrating. The link won't imbed for some reason.
Kudos on the ride!
When on Flickr, click the share icon ( little right arrow). Choose BBCode and then the image size and just paste that directly into the body here. No extra stuff needed.
You get the following image:
From Overlook Trail, Point Mugu State Park by Elbow&Foot, on Flickr
#1342
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Since the spoiler embargo has expired (not that too many Addictionites follow tennis):
Federer has now won two Open championships this year and Rafa has the other - what year is it again?
Federer has now won two Open championships this year and Rafa has the other - what year is it again?
#1343
So it is
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Would have been way more better had Venus won too.
#1344
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#1345
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#1346
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17 unbelievable facts showing the radical transformation of tennis
#1347
smelling the roses
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From Photobucket. Taken this morning.
From Photobucket. Taken this morning.