SLOWCORE

   The end of needing lights for after work rides has come and gone. I rode quite a bit with the lights this winter and am scared for the prospect of closures in the forest this summer if we don't get some moisture quick like.

Met up with Lee one night in February and got a nice sunset to start one of my last night rides of the winter season







   got up to Dorothy Stewert and and the Dale Ball trails a bit ago. This was my first ride on the Dorothy Stewart trail of the new year. It is always nice when more options open up






Santa Fe barely got any Hoptimum but the one I had was AWESOME.







   Hit up the Dale Ball south trails the other day and had a great time. Always nice to get on trails that are a bit more tech then the rest of the Dale Bal trails. I didnt take out the camera cept to shoot this pretty bike and trail.

R.I.P Jay



Back at the car for another tasty treat


After the ride I was heading home and at Paseo and Guadalupe the sunset was ablaze


   first attempt to go up Chamiza this year found me riding with Cheryl Mark and Dom. We made the hole ride and it was sweet to get back in the trees a bit.
Cheryl climbing up Chamiza

up on da saddle

Mark coming round the bend




Who doesn't love a clementine


Hazel by Ella


   What's in your audio player? Heard this track from the upcoming Fleet Foxes album and quite enjoyed it.

“ Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information and religions destroy spirituality."

Spinning and Grinning

   Hit up White Mesa about a month ago and met up with Chris and Andy for some nice gypsum on the tires







Andy heading up


Saw this hawk flying around enjoying the day






Cool to imagine that this area was once covered in water



Chris climbing up to the hole






Heading to the moon





up to the mine


The Nipple


This picture reminds me of the Outer Banks





Back up from the mine gets steep







Coming back to i25 on 550 you get a nice view of the Sandias



White Mesa never disappoints

   I had a killer after work ride a while ago at the Galisteo Basin Preserve trails I always enjoy the trails there














   What's in your audio player? I bought 2 Song's for a relief for Haiti That Bonnie Prince Billy and The Cairo Gang put out.






                     SPRING IS COMING!

Winter Doldrums

   “ For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner … on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. … That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that."

Carl Sagan

   First ride of 2011 was a night ride after work on the Dale Balls. It was great. The trails were all covered in snow but enough people had hiked it so it was packed down as long as you stayed on the packed trail you were fine. This ride was on January 5th



   Then I started my weekly drive down to Albuquerque to hit up the foothills. I really enjoy riding the foothills. I have also discovered the new brewery La Cumbre on Girard in turkey town














   The next weekend we banged out a 30 miler hittin most of the foothills including a section of the south foothills that goes all the way down to the big I that i had not ridden before. It was sweet cause it has a really big climb on it. Which is always nice.
I guess this trail was courtesy of FOOMTB


The climb back up from 40 is a honker. That's right I said honker






Joaquin giving it


24-7



We hit up San Francisco for the holidays again and had another splendid visit to the city by the bay. One of the highlights was eating my brothers pizza.

A man and his pizza oven

There was drinking


...carnivouring



Tom and Jerrying it

Alcatraz diversion


Some more drinking

Some nice walks in between rain



Then some more beer



Had to bring some lovely nectar home with us

   What is in your audio player? I am excited about J's new album coming out in March. Fully accoustic with some accoustic fuzz thrown in.

                  WARMTH please