I needed a new shuttle bike, and craigslist delivered.
I did a float down the Verde today, and this bike worked perfectly.
The Masi Soulville comes with an 8 speed shimano nexus internal gear hub, and is pretty neato. I actually used all 8 gears, as there are a couple pretty steep hills on the 11 mile jaunt from Beasely Flat to White Bridge.
I don't really have a massive depth of knowledge about SOPA, but it would be a shame if my blog came under scrutiny for using songs on the videos that I don't have rights too.
This song is not a rebel song, this song is SOPA-Bloody-SOPA!
Nice little paddle today with the Desert Mountain Paddlers. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Dinked around the coves on the southern edge of the lake. Actually, this was my first time paddle around them, cuz I normally move on to bigger and better things, but this was actually pretty scenic stuff.
Saw a couple bighorn sheep ewes with their lambs a little ways of from the shoreline. Pretty neato.
Inspiration hit, as Chollaball mentioned, for Christmas Eve, he was heading down to Tuscon to pedal.
I thought to myself, heck I wanna ride down in Tuscon, but I also wanna ski. But wait, Ski Valley, the dinky resort at the top of Mt. Lemmon was up and running. A plan formulated that I would ride the lower trails in the Catalina Mountains (the trails not covered in snow), and then following the ride, I could head up to Ski Valley for an afternoon session of skiing. So I posted up a Tuscon MTB, that I wanted to find somebody who wanted to do a quick shuttle run on La Milagrosa. Luck would have it, Miracle (Chris) replied that he was in. Stoke was high, and I knew my plan would now come to fruition.
I met up with Chris at Le Buzz at 8:00. We then dropped my car off at the end of the Millie, and then we took his truck up to Prison Camp. We hit the trail at about 8:45 and man was it cold, but I had the perfect amount of layers for the whole ride. I didn't freeze in the shadows and didn't roast by the we time we finished up at 11:15. We the shuttled back up to his truck, and the lap was completed in 3 hours. Just as planned.
From there I head up the highway to Mt. Lemmon, got my ski boots on and grabbed my skis, and paid for my lift ticket just as they were discounting them at 12:30 (afternoon skiing is 32 clams).
The mountain biking was pure awesomness, and the skiing conditions were ...
...well, just okay, but hey it was still a day on the slopes (day 5 for the season).
