biking – Perpetual Weekend by Jim Harris

Bikeaneering

Jim Harris — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:20:07 +0000

“I scouted out a new ridge ride,” said Tom. Upon hiking our bikes to the top of the little summit, I asked “So, where’s this trail?” “Oh. There’s no trail. It’s just a ridge ride,” said Tom. Uh huh… Tom rolling talus field “Those aren’t baby head rocks. Those are babies.” said Allison when she saw this pic. Grassy ridge rolling Disclaimer: This is private property that’s posted as open to the public. We were “riding at our...

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Orizaba Ramblers

Jim Harris — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:00:05 +0000

Windmilling his kayak paddle into the breeze, Luc Mehl, 34, pulls onto the sandbar at the mouth of Mexico’s Rio Antigua and squints at the novelty of a seascape horizon in the hazy afternoon glare. Two days of sleepless dysentery have drained Mehl’s prodigious vigor and his hands are blanched and clammy as we high-five. Still, he’s grinning with accomplishment in the salt air. Eleven days earlier we’d set out pedaling bikes strapped with mountaineering and whitewater paddling gear in Cholula de...

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Super Tack

Jim Harris — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:46:29 +0000

Allison and I shuttled up Guardsman’s Pass around 6am today for a pre-work Crest Trail ride. It’d rained hard last night and tire tracks from previous riders had been replaced by smooth singletrack dimpled with texture from the torrential thunderstorm. Only a few minutes into the ride we ran into an F250-sized bull moose grazing from the trail. Waving and yelling did little to relocate the unflappable moose so we backtracked and pedaled the old trail over Scotts Hill. For...

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Doubleheader

Jim Harris — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:00:13 +0000

After getting rained out in Fruita, we headed back to Utah where the NWS was forecasting a foot or two of snow. Early Monday morning we put on boots and skins by headlamp and discovered that between the three of us we knew quite a few of the other folks doing the same thing in the parking lot around us. It had snowed two feet overnight but cleared and now the stars were fading into the dawn. Grant, Dustin and...

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Rampage

Jim Harris — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:08:28 +0000

The Rampage is a spectacle: it’s spectacular spectating. Mountain bike riders careen down the mountain, hucking off cliffs and jumps while choosing a route that will impress the judges watching from below. To that end, Red Bull and the riders build themselves personalized jumps and buff out landings below jumbo sized cliffs. Then they push their bikes to the top, saddle up and bomb down. Redbull might have chosen a tag line less jinxy than “the land will rumble again” for the 2010...

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Cloud Riding

Jim Harris — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:05:49 +0000

Hanging out at the coffee shop in Wilson, Wyoming we were displeased see a line of rain clouds stretching across Montana’s extended forecast. We’d hoped to spend several days riding remote trails in Big Thigh Country but neither of us wanted to camp out in a wet, slow-moving Pacific front. Allison had prepared for this kind of thing with a collection of maps for other places. More or less at random, we picked an area in the White Cloud Mountains...

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Roll the Coaster

Jim Harris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:44:37 +0000

“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission” -Grace Hopper Back in 2003 we got permission from the Forest Service to construct mountain bike stunts along an existing trail near Missoula. Following a few years of cat and mouse games as illegal trails were built, discovered and destroyed, the bike community began working to earn the trust of the Forest Service. Once permission was granted we focused on accommodating their rules dictating how stunts could be built....

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Sunset Boulevard

Jim Harris — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:54:08 +0000

Kicking off this long weekend, the Avett Brothers concert turned out to be a rowdy, high-impact type of night. On Saturday morning Allison and were moving half-speed. Rather than motivate to head out for a long ride we drank agua by the liter and tinkered with bikes. Finally we rallied for a night ride on the Wasatch Crest Trail. The sunset was fiery and as the light faded we turned on bike lights and rolled into the dark. One might...

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Sunrise Ride

Jim Harris — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:44:00 +0000

The last couple days in Park City have felt like fall. Yesterday morning started off with a literal bang as thunder boomed over the ridgeline so we postponed our plans for a sunrise ride. Today we were out the before sunup and had the trails to ourselves. After yesterday’s rain and snow, the trails were smooth, tacky, and fast.

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Bikeaneering

Jim Harris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:33:09 +0000

I’ve wanted to ride Mt Elbert, the tallest of Colorado’s 14ers, all summer and finally went for it today. Beginning at Half Moon, the first few miles of trail are mostly climbing but with a few downhill sections to keep it fun. From Lilly Ponds the climbing really gets going with a 4000′ uphill to the 14,433′ summit. I wasn’t able to pedal much of that climb and pushed my bike more than I care to remember. Here’s me on...

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