Photos

I’m the webmaster over at aztrail-build.org. I try to stay up with the updates and such. But sometimes, say when I have an academic deadline stabbing me in the eye, volunteer gigs get slid down in priority.

Richard G is the most prolific aztrail-build photographer, and he takes some good shots. In response to my late posting of his most recent pics he wrote:

photos remind us of what we accomplished when we get too old to remember what we had for breakfast that morning.

photos good, getting old bad, photos prevent getting old.

In that spirit, here are a couple from the Tucson Mountains.

Finding Trails, v4.0, the latest and greatest intellectual tour de force (ha!), has at long last been submitted. Hooray! As usual, the work is not done until the deadline is over. We abandoned the work of the previous week+, with less than 24 hours to the deadline. Then I started actually writing the paper.

I feel like I aged a year in the last two weeks. More photos please.

I got new (hydro!) brakes for the Behemoth, sheered off the headset cup, and have been generally knocking myself out on the rocky, twisted trails of the Tucson mountains. The photos are emphatically not from today’s ride. Though I caught a few glimpses of a ~5000 ft snow level on the Catalinas, it was pretty much fog, gray skies and soaking rain. Not sure my camera would have survived had I brought it.

All good fun at TMP, where there’s narry a speck of mud in sight. Just water running down the trail, sometimes.

Two loops of Hidden Canyon, on the Behemoth, and the fun factor grows. Hydro brakes have changed the rules on some of the switchbacks. Still looking forward to making progress on that trail.