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GPS Stats According to my TopoFusion logbook, these are my year end stats: 5669.22 mi (1954.64 mi uphill, 2020.32 mi downhill, 1628.15 mi flat) 681,078 ft total ascent (679,717 ft descent) – 8.8 % avg uphill grade, 11.0 % avg downhill grade 31 days 5:33:06 moving time (60 days 12:45:38 total time) 8.3 mph …. [Continue reading] 
Another year full of memories, full of life. Suffering and bliss, darkness and light. Attempts at making the highs higher and the lows lower. Another year of not really knowing what I’m doing, but a happy contentment with the direction I’m pointing. Just don’t ask me to describe what direction that is–I cannot, and it …. [Continue reading] 
Fred is the latest visitor from the northlands — if you can call Moab “north.” Certainly not much dirt to ride up that way these days. Plenty here. Rain just means good traction. Chad and I met Fred out in the Tucson Mountains. Starting at the campground there was only …. [Continue reading] 
12/25/08 Paula needed a ride out to school to finish up her report cards. School is conveniently located next to the Sweetwater Preserve, so I decided to go for a super easy ride. Still sick, but Sweetwater is the perfect place to see some great desert without raising your heart rate above 100. I …. [Continue reading] Had a go at editing Mike’s helmet cam footage from the day 3 “shuttle” ride. I’m still learning the software, but it was fun to play around with while sick and watching it rain outside. Keep in mind that these trails are 100% new to Mike, and as such, he kept a little distance back …. [Continue reading] 
Shuttle day! We started with a quick “shuttle” up the Catalina Highway (we pedaled our bikes ~3000 feet up). We debated about going up to Green Mountain, but there were tiny patches of snow below 6000 ft. The north facing traverse on Greenie was unlikely to be much fun. So we climbed ‘the scar’ on …. [Continue reading] 
Day 2 – out to the west side of the Catalina Mountains, just north of Tucson. A “recovery day” of sorts. Scoped out a few new lines. Managed to spook Mike on some classic ones (all found by Louis and crew). 
The esteemed Mr. Curiak decided he wasn’t ready for winter just yet. I know the feeling. So he headed south for a few days of sonoran desert chunk. First up was South Mountain in Phoenix. It’s been years since I’ve ridden there, and most of my memories of the trail are from the Squealer (Jim …. [Continue reading] 
Breakfast was at Los Hermanos. I could have eaten twice what the waitress brought out. We were heading back to our starting point on Freeman Road. Time for some pavement. HWY 177 is known to roadies for its big hills. But perspective is everything. Compared to yesterday’s rollercoaster jeep road extravaganza, these hills …. [Continue reading] 
Sunrise looked like this, from the sleepy bag, lying atop our own private, saguaro studded ridgeline. The sun hit and there was nothing to do but ride singletrack. So that’s what we did. photo by Lee Blackwell photo by Lee Blackwell Truly epic …. [Continue reading] 
We started riding at Freeman Road. After contributing a few gallons to the water cache we coasted off down to the Boulders. Always a pleasure cruise, especially with the 90% chance of tail wind. We rolled the dice and got a nice one to gentle us on our way. 
I finally got a camera worth a crap. Took a loop on the local suburbo trails and grabbed a few test shots. That’s Baboquivari Peak, some 60 miles away. Been trying to take shots of the moon for years with my …. [Continue reading] 
Took a nice coolish ride on Bug Springs and Molino Trails with Chad. Overcast, no wind and 50’s. A rare day for Tucson, but perfect climbing weather. Check out those socks… Chad’s magic protective socks failed him. A rock popped his dérailleur into his spokes. That ended …. [Continue reading] 
Paula and I headed down to Canelo Pass to put some muscle into a piece of Arizona Trail that badly needs it: Canelo East. This was a rare work event in that trail hero (and segment steward) Zay Hartigan packed in tools to the work site. That meant that Lee and …. [Continue reading] 
There are some big rocks along the Rillito Path that I usually ride over whenever I pass by. A couple are just big enough that I feel uneasy on either the “up” or “down.” So I repeated one until it became second nature. Training. Of a wholly different sort. I …. [Continue reading] 
Team Dave and Lynda, alias 2-Epic, rolled into town, looking for a couple good rides. I was happy to oblige. First we rolled out to the Tucson Mountains. Blue skies and plenty of rocks. Standard Tucson Mountain fare. There was a little bike fiddlin’. Lynda’s demo bike was giving …. [Continue reading] 
Rain made things interesting in this year’s Turkey Trot. The wash is usually dry and I can cruise through it several times, following the race by bike. This year I had to take the bridge. Mud, slippery hills, hay bales, water traps. Last year Paula beat her own course record and …. [Continue reading] 
Nobody really talks about riding in the Tortolita Mountains. Least of all me — truth be told I’ve never laid tire to dirt out there, and I outta be pistol whipped for this shortcoming. Trails left unexplored right out my back door! There isn’t much in the way of established singletrack, and that’s part of …. [Continue reading] 
I concrete II rock III IV V I shuttled myself (translation: I pedaled the highway) to the top of Bug Springs. Despite El Tour being yesterday there were plenty of roadies out. Catching and dropping me was a forgone conclusion. Mellow climbing was the intent, …. [Continue reading] 
Looking east at the Colorado Trail between the Ten Mile range, Copper Mountain and Searle/Kokomo Passes. I wrapped up the testing and pushed out version 3.60 (edit: now 3.61. If you got v3.60 I recommend going to v3.61, see comments for details) with the new color aerials. I’m pretty excited about this development …. [Continue reading] |
 Scott Digital Nomad, nowhere, USA Lifelong mountain biker, trail mapper and programmer. Sometimes bikepacker, sometimes runner, sometimes packrafter. I love to ride my bike, get out, and explore this beautiful planet we find ourselves on. I live in a 20 foot GeoPro Trailer, traveling about the west. Main author of TopoFusion GPS Software, co-founder of Trackleaders.com. More... Projects / Sites  
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