New Years Day Dirt Doggin'

As Jonny pointed out, repeatedly, there was something magical about the light. I wish my cellcam picked it up better, but I think it's got some sort of anti-magic filter (it was cheap, ok?) It looks like nice light, none the less.

It made doing our usual loop like a new dirt dogging experience - yes, a magical experience - that livened up our old standby loops, namely Backwards Redwood, The Ewok Needle (which we Thread), Jurassic Park, Pathway To The Wizard's Circle, that part of Big Trees I don't have a cool name for, Sunset, and good old J. Miller in general.

We felt motivated to take a few Inspiration Breaks.

Notice this Stumpjumper's hi-tech pump mounting rig.

That's merely inspirational tobacco, btw.

We ended our ride in the best light of the first day of the year.

Dirtin' a Dog a Day

In an effort to live up to Dr. 1Time's mantra, "Dirtin' a dog a day," I headed up to Redwood to put a positive spin on a heavy commemorative time. I went left where we usually go right and eventually found myself, after a lot of serious rollers, out at Pinehurst gate.

I put a taller/longer Nitto dirt drop stem on the MB-1. Getting the drops up at a dorky height has made a huge improvement in single track handling and comfort and stuff. I like these old handlebars now.

That trail looks interesting. Have we ridden it yet? Need to figure out how to get there. . . 

These Dirt Owls elected not to dirt a dog today. Pavement for them.

PS - I used 6-speed indexing on this ride. Retrogrouch heresy!