bike riding mostly
Weekend to Bend. Visit the haunts. Ride bikes. Eat pancakes. Spectate the river surf. Beware: Place is a automobile mess. Bike trails still make a great sail through the forest. Parked the xB at Phil’s TH between two “adventure” Sprinters. Stepped out of the car, stretched, inhaled a deep lung-full of control burn and got to pedaling! Lunch, twice, Kona Mix Plate. Kalua pork yes please! Stay at Townplace Suites between Original Pancake House and Cascade Lakes pub.
Joshua Tree.
Desert View Conservation Area.
Teal
Greg
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Homewood Canyon Lanes
Open All Day and All Night
Up Canyon from the house.
Around the corner from Homewood it’s a good quick lap that usually turns into a trip to the airport back up through the draws and ends with a slog up the hill. Always worth the effort. Former mining site with a stone hut located exactly at the bottom of the drainage which always was a headscratcher with obvious repercussions. Creep up onto the ridge overlooking Homewood Canyon where one of the Barker boy’s planted a repeater for his terrestrial internet system. SMB named it and so it is Tin Pan Alley but I think the USGS has it on record as something else…
Merlin came down from the Great Wet North to dry out for a bit. We gathered our wits for a fat ride up to the dunes and on. Good loop up into the Slate Range foothills.
