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#9781
03-10-2024, 12:08 AM
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This is the season of hunting for snowlines. This photo is from the site of a pretty impressive avalanche a couple of months back. The rest of the path is clear all the way up the canyon, but this section of snow is going to be there for quite a while yet. Not too much trouble to carry the bike across the snowfield.
Beautiful day in the mountains!  (I've been riding the Yamaguchi exclusively lately as I wait for some parts to rebuild my other bike. Just a joy to ride this bike--so tight, so quick to enter and exit turns, such a joy in the hills. Still pinching myself to have stumbled across this bike twelve years ago. Absolute gem of a frame.) 
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#9782
03-10-2024, 04:13 PM
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climbing to Mingus Mtn near Cottonwood, Arizona. Didn’t make it to the top due to time constraints but made it to about 6100’, 1k feet shy of the summit. 9 miles of hard climbing up steep and loose rock. The car unfortunately did not make it either, but kudos they made it that far on a high clearance only loose rock dirt road. Off in the distance is Sedona and Humphreys Peak in Flagstaff.
 
Last edited by Likes2ridefar; 03-10-2024 at 04:17 PM.
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#9783
03-10-2024, 04:30 PM
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Canyon road on the 951 gravel.
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#9784
03-10-2024, 04:50 PM
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#9785
03-10-2024, 07:22 PM
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Today was just about testing out a couple of the lastest project bikes. The '84 Raleigh Racing USA Prestige for 10 miles and then right back out for 11 miles on the Miele Latina.
The Raleigh is pretty much done but the Miele has aways to go.
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#9789
03-11-2024, 03:23 PM
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Thanks to forum member Jaybee for putting together a spectacular Sedona single track loop. I finally got to do it a few months after he shared it.
   
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#9790
03-11-2024, 06:44 PM
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Quick ride on the Canalway trail. High winds and low temps!
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#9791
03-12-2024, 06:50 PM
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Another lime kiln, and a sculpture
Passed by the lime kilns of Carpentersville NJ and discovered a new, and very impressive, sculpture at the entrance of a driveway (my Serotta is in photo)
About kilns: "⁸Lime kilns were important because farming strips nutrients from the soil forcing many to continue moving west searching for greener farmland. Due to the abundance of limestone in this region, farmers began to adopt the manuring practice of the Pennsylvania Germans who could transform limestone into a soil en-richer. Kilns would be built using fieldstone into a bank of a hill with a wagon path to the top. The kiln would then be filled from above with alternating layers of scrap wood (old fences, etc.) and pea coal, layered with limestone chucks and then set a fire. Temperatures frequently reached two thousand degrees Fahrenheit and would break up the stone into hot lime often with an explosive bang. The temperature of the fire would be controlled by adjusting the air flow in the draft hole. The kilns would burn typically 1 – 4 weeks. The brilliantly lighted kilns led to new words such as “limelight”. The lime would filter onto the grate to the hearth below. The lime was set in mounds and wet down with water. The bushels of cooled, slaked lime were loaded onto farm wagons and shoveled onto the fields."
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#9792
03-12-2024, 07:14 PM
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Windy, crampy but sunny. 115 miles and 5500 feet of elevation and still have more in the tank if it wasn't for the cramps. Good times on the single speed.
 IMG_0790 by CW Sleasman, on Flickr IMG_0789 by CW Sleasman, on Flickr
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#9793
03-12-2024, 07:23 PM
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Some people are plain "strong"! Not me. It was a beautiful day and windy here too.
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#9794
03-12-2024, 07:26 PM
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