Dale Ballin' It

   The time is now. The Dale Ball is calling you. As the snow receeds was are now able to hit Dale Balls Trails. It has been to long of a winter and as i write this more snow is sitting on our yard. I am trying to get some good rides in before the Dawn til Dusk race coming up in 2 weeks. I am doing duo SS with a guy from work. I have never ridden in Gallup but the pictures i have seen from the race look like it is gonna be good fun. Anyone else heading there? Todd and i went out last weekend for a ride up to Picacho peak. Dale Ball is a great starting ride for visitors to Santa Fe because you could ride them from town and they are a little lower then most of the other rides.Which means you can acclimate to 7000 ft. Soo come on out and enjoy SANTA FE.
Todd enjoying his adult size wheels


Todd climbing a tuff section of the DB south




Todd one switchback up


Todd wanted to hike to this nice view.





Then we hiked up to the beautiful views of Picacho Peak.




    Ray and I did a fine ride a couple of weeks ago on the Dale Ball North trail. It was fun but a little muddy

This is Ray's 29er

This is a great rockchair on the Dale Ball North trails that has a great view of the sunsets.


Got home from the ride with Todd and popped a growler of 2nd st. IPA

    What is in your audio player? I have the new Clutch album From Beale Street to Oblivion in mine. It is really good. Good ol rocking music with a Maryland connection.
    I hope everyone is out doin what they do best.
    I will leave you with a un-altered Sunset shot from the front door.

                    CIAO!

Turquoise Trail

   Last couple of weekends I have been going down to Cerrillos to ride some fun trails south of Santa Fe just north of Madrid. Cerrillos bosts having the first mine in America. The trails are all around old Mines. It has been great to be back out on the trails. It has been a long winter here. Todd took some nice shots and I got a couple from the first ride. Give you a idea of the cerrillos area.
I think that is the Ortiz in the backround.


   There are mines through out the trails in cerrillos that they have put signage explaining who owned the mine and a brief story about it.





Tell me it isn't GREAT to feel the dirt under your tread after a long winter.






We made a wrong turn and went down the wrong arroyo and ended up having to hike a bit in the sand. IT was still fun trying to Stay afloat in the sand.


Then we met up with Los Nativos enjoying the dry trails of Cerrillos.


Anthony and I discussing the Rise of Fascism in the United States.

Besides my ugly mug a good shot from Todd.



Anthony on the REALLY fun arroyo descent.


Todd's dog waited patiently for us to finish our ride.

The RIG then waited patiently in the Santa Fe Brewing parking lot.

While we.......




This was a cool ol cig machine at that shop in Cerrillos



   What is in your audio player? I Have The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground in mine.
   The Clocks have been changed. So lets get this party started
               CIAO!

(My) First Ascent on Lake Peak

Breaking Trail is tiring

    Had a good ol' time this weekend hooking up with couple of guys who were going to get some back country turns via taking the Millennium lift up and hiking over to Lake Peak and then getting some good face shots and coming out on the upper Winsor and snowshoeing out about 4 miles back to the ski area and taking the lift back up and heading over to Big T and riding back down to a truck we left down there. The day started out GREAT. We ended up making some wrong turns with dangerous conditions and having to hike back out of those areas. so the Lake Peak hike took us around 6 hours soo we didn't get to go back up and do Big T but it was much fun to do some back country riding . The snowshoes were really fun. I now need to get a back country bag . I think i am gonna get this one because we can get a deal on em.Anyone have a Osprey bag?
    Soo my camera sux as usual and i only got about 5 shots before it crapped out on me. So Dan Clark took a bunch and burned them onto a disc so i could post up some from the powdery bonanza we had.

Hiking up to the Millennium chair. Just getting started

At the top of the Millennium Lift

The Towers

Hanging on the spine



Steve letting us know


Looking back from whence we came.

Lots of POW

Here we are about to get some GREAT turns

   Then we got into a dangerous section and had to slap on the snowshoes and skins to traverse out of the gully. The snowshoes worked really good. It was a good day to learn how to use them.

Then we got some more incredible turns after we hiked out of the gully

    After that we had to hike out on the upper Winsor about 3 miles on the snowshoes. We made it out way to late to use our ticket. It was a fun day. Dan and I swung by Cliffs Liquor's for a couple 40's. i picked up this nice Durango Brewing selection i hadn't had before. IT was Really Hoppy and Good.

    We watched a good movie the other night called Who Killed the Electric Car? I couldn't believe they were making a car like that. Corporations are Killing us.
    What is in your audio player? I have Bad Brains "Live" in mine. HR and company put on quite a show. East Coast all the way.
             PEACE