Nuner_patrol

today was one of those days (that seem to be pretty common these days) that the alpine start deslumber results in a shuffle downstairs, a pat on the dogs' heads, a quart of water and a peek outside the garden window over the kitchen sink. humph. still dark. snowy. warm, warm bed and tooo f_ckin' cold to do much. shuffle back upstairs and... R.E.M.

now it's like 8 or 9 and i'm hungry and the caffiene burning blast furnace is running on reserve. outta bed, joe's a cookin' but whup, whoa. only one stiff pour of .5 and .5 in the first pot of coffee and into the rig and off to the market. a full cart of produce later and i've got a real load of raw materials to sustain another few days of creative living. i'm home by 10ish. soonthereafter The Shredder is upandatem and i've got a mess of eggs, peppers, salsa, mushrooms, and Bacon. and coffee. Peet's F.R.a while later there's a flurry of telephone activity and sort of plans have been kinda arranged. Huck Turn-er-on-er is virtually done dressing out his 1x1 & the Nuninator is ready to take a rest day from being an ice pirate up in the Sierra no snowpack. he jumps on the offer to ride The Shredder's Old Bridgestone MB-4 or -5 (?) {now w/ horizontal rear d.o.'s -thanks Vulture!- and a rigid-rigid, an old school single speed mountain bike} and we head for the Keystone Canyon. collie/huskie dogs and wolf/dog mutants are stiding along and the cold squeeky snow reminds us we should've worn more socks. somewhere out in the trail we encounter Huck, who has apparently been de-burdened of his cellular telephone [blessing in disguise?] on his new 1x and all toothy. apparently he's also abandoned all those gears! let's see, his Blurr has like 8 or 9 speeds in the rear and 3 in the front? now he's on just 1 in the front and 1 in the rear... that makes like 10 something orphaned gears? he should get his $50 bucks back!!!

for a short trail ride it was Fly. not many users out there on a <0 January afternoon, but the trails were perfect. too bad, as it was a sort of harmonic convergence of 4 1-speeders in the sagebrush. if this hi pressure pattern holds, i'll probably go for it again tomorrow. maybe earlier though, or after tearing up the cord on the groomers. i haven't even used the lifteo thing yet this year. Umm, corduroy...

Japhy rider