Great couple days of riding out here in God's country

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Mooo
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Wow.. Is that pic as big as it looks from my phone?

Which one?
All I see is a Rapha advert.

Looks nice though.

Tour de Taco
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About 5 miles from the taco stop but $300,000 away in terms of median home value (and still a "slum")
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James San Jose, not a Purn Star. Guess which bika is faster. Wocka, wocka, wocka
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All this angst about the prices of commemorative high end bike parts. How about a Double Bubble aka Tract Homes in Suburban Slums Selling for Near a Mil
1316 W. Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, California
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The house above is a block from this:
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Eff you Alan Greenspan
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This place used to have Huevos Rancheros for 4 bux.
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Thanks for reading!

Irony... I kinda hate Rapha

I dig your **** all friends of Ayn Rand and fans of objectivism style.
(seriously, Greenspan is the worst)

If we ever ride down here in OC Ill show you a stupid slew of statutes built to his idols at the local university. we can squirt our water bottles at them.

^haha. Orange County is so weird.

Today's ride had a nice variety. Starting on the east side of the Cascades and heading over a pass to the west side. East side is high desert and the west is lush forest. The top is volcanic mountains. The road is closed to cars right now over the pass so it's always a popular ride.

smoldering controlled burn leaving Sisters, OR
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Wall of snow at the top of Mckenzie Pass
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The west side
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Snow background selfie
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Stopped in the middle of a 50 mile urban ride to cool off by the waterfall.

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It's springtime in Oregon and that means copious fields of crimson clover...this hillside appeared about 50miles into an 70+mile Sunday ride.

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Speaking of Oregon, it sure is nice in Portland today. From this morning riding over the Glen Jackson bridge into Portland:

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Arcadia State Park in Rhode Island
 

21 miles of fire roads and pavement

-Rivendell Atlantis
-Rivendell Saluki
-Salsa cx
-Circle A
-Tout Terrain
-Specialized Awol

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I'm the blackish blob under the wall in the upperish rightish corner, snacking n rehydrating whilst me partner caught up

Were gonna do Jeff Headwall on Mount Jefferson, but forecast cold temps suddenly changed to warm temps the day before... climbing spring rime in above-freezing temps doesn't work - so last minute plan change to Illumination Rock's West Ridge. Temps were a few degrees colder, and the climbing was actually pretty super, for the most part.. still plenty of soft spots, but if you hunted around a bit you found solid ice right where you needed it before you got desperate.

I've climbed the route before (I've also done Jeff Headwall)... but the point was to get my partner, young Clark, up on some legitimate alpine ice, pulling on his tools... he's a pretty strong rock climber, but this was his first time on ice.

We did bail, barely 12' below the summit ridge, due to an essentially unprotectable over-hanging rime bulge... could have burrowed through it, but it would have been another hour burning under a hot sun on the ridge - another hour of snow softening.. and given that our descent meant rappelling into steep, sun-affected snow, time was a luxury we had not.

Crushing some less technical single-track in Boulder City, NV

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Great morning in the mountains today.

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