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#754
05-07-2016, 08:26 PM
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Tour de Taco
 About 5 miles from the taco stop but $300,000 away in terms of median home value (and still a "slum")  James San Jose, not a Purn Star. Guess which bika is faster. Wocka, wocka, wocka  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  The house above is a block from this:   Eff you Alan Greenspan  This place used to have Huevos Rancheros for 4 bux.  Thanks for reading! 
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#756
05-07-2016, 08:51 PM
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(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.
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#758
05-08-2016, 01:19 AM
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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  Wall of snow at the top of Mckenzie Pass  The west side  Snow background selfie 
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#760
05-10-2016, 02:33 AM
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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.
[IMG]  P4300540 by KRhea FrzFrmFoto, on Flickr[/IMG]
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#762
05-11-2016, 06:44 PM
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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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#763
05-12-2016, 06:01 PM
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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.
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where are we going, and why am i in this handbasket?
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#765
05-13-2016, 09:26 PM
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Great morning in the mountains today.
  
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