Extended Braley's Pond loop, or a shortened Epic?

Although I started out considering it an extension of the Braley's pond loop, I ended feeling pretty epic.

Having to carry my bike a lot helped contribute to that sense of epic adventure. And made me super grateful to my 'rents for getting me a great bike that doesn't weigh too much. Thanks guys!

Watching the sunset with about 4 miles of riding left was exciting!

Red is where I was supposed to go. (its a 12 mile loop) and yellow is where I did go (~25 mile loop).

In addition to this great weekend of riding I also feel bad about not writing something about last weekend. It was a very cool weekend that was full of biking and other forms of goodness.

Here David inspects the map, of where we've climbed and of where we will soon descend.

Wolf Ridge is rough and in a pinch a 29er does indeed fit in a 26" tire!

Then was the Mennonite Relief sale!!! Sadly I don't have any original pictures but here is their main page and there are cool pictures of donuts.

And yet another one of the highlights of the weekend was the mountain bike festival! Jason Spicher and I rode road bikes out there to volunteer to make food. We heard about this trough our friends at the Northend Greenway, part of the event was to help support this awesome new path. 

It was a great ride and then we made a huge pot of rice, a huge pot of beans, and giant woks full of green peppers!

And of course, although cooking with giant tools was fun it was particularly great to just hang out with a bunch of mountain bikers and look at cool bikes. I think people who ride mtn bikes are by definition pretty cool people. It was also fun to see bunches of little kids out there getting into biking!

No more WV!

I am finally done with my job. No longer will I have to toil all by my lonesome with only Garrison Keillor and Click n' Clack to keep me company. Great as they are, they did have a tendency to over run conversation.

Here is some of the stuff that I was working on and wont miss so much:

Bath House Wall Sconce

Cabin Wall Sconce

Just a regular ol' lantern. (I had to vandalize it to get the wick out and the bulb in)

And heres some of the stuff I did when not doing the above:

Cool Campsite Tyler! yeah it was thanks. It was a really cool spot and there is an incredible 360 view of the surrounding valley and it is great. Maybe not such a great place to sleep though... between cold wind and the chance of rolling over and falling off the edge, it was done more for the thrill and the view of the stars than for the sleep.

Fall is beautiful. 

Thanks Rose for coming out and helping GSD really fast so that we could go hiking and enjoy the views and go ziplining through some woods.  (and until I figure out how to easily rotate pictures, it might be easier to rotate your head)

Well, as some of you may have noticed this is my new blog! I made it mostly in anticipation of my great winter escape in which I will be getting out of the cold for awhile and just hitting the road! 

I have also finally come up with a departure date! Nov. 3rd. 

Until then its going to be lots of biking! packing up! cleaning up! dumpster diving! cooking! ect! but more specifically look out for details about a Fall break camping trip.