The Social Distancing in Isolation Contest & Never-ending Peter Pan Positivity Parlay
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rick81721
Lothar
Did some recon of my mtb route to the sourlands. Figured one more day for things to dry out should help. Gonna be lots of tall grass - and I think that pond I saw on Google maps is an environmental cleanup site - we shall see. Debating on whether I should toss my 9mm in my backpack in case I have
to shoot my way out
to shoot my way out
jklett
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If that's the pond I'm thinking of, there should be a Chevy Spectrum in the bottom of it.Did some recon of my mtb route to the sourlands. Figured one more day for things to dry out should help. Gonna be lots of tall grass - and I think that pond I saw on Google maps is an environmental cleanup site - we shall see. Debating on whether I should toss my 9mm in my backpack in case I have
to shoot my way out
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jklett
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Not mine and I wasn't there when it happened but I saw the aftermath. I'm still amazed that he got it out there since guys with K5's running 44's had trouble getting there.
rick81721
Lothar
you've been up there? access road acros Wertzville from Rainbow Hill rd.
jklett
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About 30 years ago if it's the place I'm thinking of. Abandoned airfield?
one piece crank
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Ah, the old "Airpark"...
jklett
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I didn't feel like typing but you guilted me into it.
I grew up in the area and a bunch of us used to go 4-wheeling at a couple of areas. Nighttime no lights until you're 100 yards in type of stuff. I didn't have a truck so I would ride with whoever as sort of an emergency mechanic/retrieval guy. One of the crew(my best friend at the time) originally had an AMC spirit that we "lifted" with shackles and spring spacers and would run it with the big boys using the full throttle method to get through stuff. He eventually rolled it behind the brick factory on the moto trails(I missed all the good stuff) and had to junk it so he got "S.S. Shitbox", a Chevy spectrum hatchback. I guess he got bored e-brake drifting it on the back roads and decided to go to the air park with it. Like I said, guys with full sized trucks on big tires had trouble getting there so I can only imagine how much smash he did to get to the pond. Apparently he rolled there too and rather than trying to pull the thing back out, he full gassed it straight into the pond all dukes of hazard style. I never heard anything else about it since and our crew stopped going up there so as far as I know it's still there.
thegock
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Was his name "Max?"
iman29
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After taking yesterday off to recover a little, I got out for my lunch/training ride today around 11:45. It was much hotter out than I thought it would be but I was glad I took 2 water bottles with me cause I needed most of it. even needed to pour some over my head and across my neck during the ride.
Spent the time riding my self made flat training loop, focused on High/Low cadence drills (10 minutes high, 5 minutes low) and managing my HR to stay within Z2 and Z3. This is so much better than being on the trainer trying these drills because outside is better.
took a few quick pics but I missed the train going by. got 25 miles in and got back on schedule with time to clean up and eat lunch before next round of meetings.
Spent the time riding my self made flat training loop, focused on High/Low cadence drills (10 minutes high, 5 minutes low) and managing my HR to stay within Z2 and Z3. This is so much better than being on the trainer trying these drills because outside is better.
took a few quick pics but I missed the train going by. got 25 miles in and got back on schedule with time to clean up and eat lunch before next round of meetings.
rick81721
Lothar
Interesting. It looks like there could've been an airstrip up there. Will soon find out
rick81721
Lothar
Proved to myself that it's possible to get to the sourlands trails via the most direct route: roads south to north hill, climb north hill to the pipeline clearing, take that basically east to the sourlands. Cliff notes version - it's possible, but incredibly stupid.
Got to the pipeline fairly easily, then took a detour to check out that pond and abandoned air strip seen via Google maps. I'm coming back just to hit this pond, it's filled with bass:
Quad trails go from pipeline to pond, completely around it, then east to the airstrip
Oddly enough, inside the wrecked house(?) was an old vhs porn tape - seriously? Guys go to abandoned houses to watch porn?
Then back to the pipeline - here's where it got brutal. Weeds weren't too high for about another 0.5 mile, then they got chest high - for the rest of the way. I got across Montgomery, to some huge house/compound, then hit a dead end on the pipeline - barbed wire fence and a large swampy area. Found another quad trail but it just looped around, so backtracked to Pirozzi lane (it's private at the end but fortunately no gun toting occupants around) and took that to Longhill and the last section of pipieline trail to the sourlands. Found this rock on the boulders
By the time I got to the trails I was cooked and beat, just did a tiny loop and headed back
Got to the pipeline fairly easily, then took a detour to check out that pond and abandoned air strip seen via Google maps. I'm coming back just to hit this pond, it's filled with bass:
Quad trails go from pipeline to pond, completely around it, then east to the airstrip
Oddly enough, inside the wrecked house(?) was an old vhs porn tape - seriously? Guys go to abandoned houses to watch porn?
Then back to the pipeline - here's where it got brutal. Weeds weren't too high for about another 0.5 mile, then they got chest high - for the rest of the way. I got across Montgomery, to some huge house/compound, then hit a dead end on the pipeline - barbed wire fence and a large swampy area. Found another quad trail but it just looped around, so backtracked to Pirozzi lane (it's private at the end but fortunately no gun toting occupants around) and took that to Longhill and the last section of pipieline trail to the sourlands. Found this rock on the boulders
By the time I got to the trails I was cooked and beat, just did a tiny loop and headed back
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iman29
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Sounds brutal. Throughly check yourself for ticks tho.
rick81721
Lothar
I actually found one crawling on my leg while I was typing the recap. First tick I've found in years.
that section is brutal. First time I plowed through every other pedal stroke I considered turning around. Sounds like you hit the swamp too. mentally and physically exhausting, right?
It’s better in the winter, but the swamp doesn’t freeze unless it’s COLD.
nice job getting across!