Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
Nice! You rode the "senior tram". Did the driver buzz anyone?
Sedona 2017 Recap- <Now with 20% more Pictures!>
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Nice! You rode the "senior tram". Did the driver buzz anyone?
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
gtluke
The Moped
DAY 7?
Mirsky had been hounding all week that Thursday was the long ride day. Everyone took the previous day off so I didn't think this was a joke.
10 miles in everyone rage quit again. So again, now I'm riding alone. But I didn't bring my headphones!
Dammit.
I wanted to ride teacup again and after the morning of mellow trails I wanted to hit some fun stuff, and the nearest fun stuff was back by teacup. It was about a 15 minute pedal from where everyone abandoned me.
Mellow trails from the morning
Mitch riding them
And that was pretty much it for my pictures. Not sure why I didn't take any pictures but I did get another 25 or so mile in that day. Got to ride Teacup again, it might be my favorite non death type trail out in sedona. It was just fun.
Ending in a nasty flat tire. I got my tube out, and of course, the brand new tube had a hole in it. This is after I took the tire off.
Thankfully Schwalbe tires are the easiest tires in the world to set up tubeless. So I mounted the tire tubeless again, with a big hole in it, with a pocket pump. I nailed a snakebite in the bead of the rim. I got it to hold air just enough to pedal around and finished off my ride.
Got back to the condo and went over to the float spa thingy.
You take a shower and hop in this pod.
The water is EXACTLY the temperature of your skin, there is 1,500lbs of epsom salt in it, and it's completely light proof.
So you float in water you can not feel, high on the top of the water, in complete silence, in complete darkness. It's a VERY cool experience. You enter a dream state while you are awake. It took me about 40 minutes to get "into" it and they say you get better at that with time. I'd definitely try it again, it was really neat.
Did we go out for mexican this night? I can't remember.
Mirsky had been hounding all week that Thursday was the long ride day. Everyone took the previous day off so I didn't think this was a joke.
10 miles in everyone rage quit again. So again, now I'm riding alone. But I didn't bring my headphones!
Dammit.
I wanted to ride teacup again and after the morning of mellow trails I wanted to hit some fun stuff, and the nearest fun stuff was back by teacup. It was about a 15 minute pedal from where everyone abandoned me.
Mellow trails from the morning
Mitch riding them
And that was pretty much it for my pictures. Not sure why I didn't take any pictures but I did get another 25 or so mile in that day. Got to ride Teacup again, it might be my favorite non death type trail out in sedona. It was just fun.
Ending in a nasty flat tire. I got my tube out, and of course, the brand new tube had a hole in it. This is after I took the tire off.
Thankfully Schwalbe tires are the easiest tires in the world to set up tubeless. So I mounted the tire tubeless again, with a big hole in it, with a pocket pump. I nailed a snakebite in the bead of the rim. I got it to hold air just enough to pedal around and finished off my ride.
Got back to the condo and went over to the float spa thingy.
You take a shower and hop in this pod.
The water is EXACTLY the temperature of your skin, there is 1,500lbs of epsom salt in it, and it's completely light proof.
So you float in water you can not feel, high on the top of the water, in complete silence, in complete darkness. It's a VERY cool experience. You enter a dream state while you are awake. It took me about 40 minutes to get "into" it and they say you get better at that with time. I'd definitely try it again, it was really neat.
Did we go out for mexican this night? I can't remember.
gtluke
The Moped
Day 8
With J and Mitch departed the Mirsky's and us went to Taliesin West
This is Frank Wright's winter home/studio in Scottsdale
I didn't really take any pictures, because you can just google it and find pictures that are a thousand times better.
Here's a pano I took though of the exterior. The tour was great, I really like the FLW's style.
Here's my wife taking a picture of a hummingbird
That's all the pictures I took that day.
I should set a timer every hour to remind me TAKE PICTURES FOR THE THREAD.
With J and Mitch departed the Mirsky's and us went to Taliesin West
This is Frank Wright's winter home/studio in Scottsdale
I didn't really take any pictures, because you can just google it and find pictures that are a thousand times better.
Here's a pano I took though of the exterior. The tour was great, I really like the FLW's style.
Here's my wife taking a picture of a hummingbird
That's all the pictures I took that day.
I should set a timer every hour to remind me TAKE PICTURES FOR THE THREAD.
?? I don't remember that?? I rode and did Teacup Backwards going UP and it sucked, lol.
That was the Wild Boar day!! Javalina as I now know it's name.Here was the story of that day for those that are still following this thread.
Mrs. Luke, @MissJR @Santapez walked to town while @jmanic and myself drove in to do some tourist stuff.
I brought my gear along and Fletch dropped me off at the Jim Thompson trail head
So i headed out solo for the next hour or so and took is some great views
with some tough climbing and walking
and a nice Bridge
and closer
Then my plan was to start working my way back towards we we were staying which meant some more new trails for me to find own my own with Jasons help of course. here are some scenes along the way back.
and then this happened.................................. continued below
I WANTED TO GET TO THE SKILLS PARK!!!
ETA: http://www.sedonaaz.gov/your-government/departments/parks-recreation/city-parks/bike-skills-park (in case people are interested in more info)
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So as I'm on my way closer to home I see an animal up ahead to my left. As I get closer I see it's a wild boar!! It looks calm enough and I'm aware of the danger so I pass by slow and then say WTF and stop to take a picture. Well it starts moving left behind some trees so I talk like its a cat and start making a Pissssss sound so it will look at me so I can snap the picture. As Im pisssssing at it about to snap the photo I hear and see off to my left that another wild boar is there and it is now freaking charging at me fill boar mode. I s grab my bike as a shield and start yelling at it and it stops like 5 feet and turns off back into the trees. Wholly shit I almost shit myself right there. I was almost as scared as when I thought I lost my shoe the day before. Well I carry own and decide that I am out of here on the next trailhead. On the way I run into a couple hiking and warn them. They say they are called Javalina's and thanked me for the heads up. I then checked my phone to show them and low and behold I actually got the shot of the thing charging me and not the one I was looking at. Then of course we go for dinner that night and its called Cantina Javalina.. Thanks Jason for setting this up.. lol
And thats the story...
And thats the story...
Shit, Talk to @soundz about this, I copy and pasted from google photos. You have no idea what you're missing
herein lies the problem
Ok. I swear I saw @Mitch 's pics. Is it that he copied and pasted while he was logged in to Google so I saw them and then as soon as he logs out, poof... Gone from MTBNJ?
@Mitch just copy and paste your pics onto your desktop. Then drag them into this reply section (choose full size or thumbnail). You should be ok then. That's what I do... Unless someone wants to tell me I'm also doing it wrong. (Oh. And I use Chrome if that makes any difference.)
@Mitch just copy and paste your pics onto your desktop. Then drag them into this reply section (choose full size or thumbnail). You should be ok then. That's what I do... Unless someone wants to tell me I'm also doing it wrong. (Oh. And I use Chrome if that makes any difference.)
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rlb
Well-Known Member
@Mitch probably doesn't have the google album public, so only his google friends can see them. The other thing is google pics are a pain in the balls (last time I checked, anyway) because they don't give you an easy way to link to the jpegs directly. The share link google generates wants to display the image around their own dogshit wrapper (there's a term for this that I can't remember) instead of allowing a direct embed into a forum like this.