Diary of Scott Morris

Francisco invited Mark and I to check out some “in progress” AZT in the White Canyon passage. He needed to check out the progress himself, and wanted to verify with us the design and implementation of it. Francisco is a good guy who has attended IMBA training sessions. He knows his stuff.

I jumped …. [Continue reading]

Fritz is in town, and it was my (self-appointed) job to find lines that scare him. We did a loop of the lower 50 and chutes with Paula, then headed for the High 50. It’s always good riding up there, and the weather couldn’t have been better.

How do you know Fritz is being …. [Continue reading]

Lots of hot air about the Grand Canyon and Riding the Spine. It’s all over the news, apparently. I’ve felt compelled to comment not so much because it’s that important of an issue, but because I have many of the facts about the canyon, bike-packing, wilderness, etc, that other people don’t seem to have. I …. [Continue reading]

The weekend AZT event was quite fun. I joined the gate crew and helped Mark cut two fences (yes!) and install cowboy gates. I can’t believe I was party to making the AZT 300 course easier. Negotiating the many fences of the Cienega Corridor, at 2am after 100+ miles on the bike was a …. [Continue reading]

I haven’t done a race of less than 140 miles in >two years. The ‘event’ (SSAZ) was 40 miles of some of my favorite trails in Tucson, so I really couldn’t resist.

Except that it’s a ‘singlespeed only’ event. I did the course mapping for Dejay, and he had invited me to participate …. [Continue reading]

Gluttony continues here in Tookson. Might as well live before you die.

I’ve done so many good rides lately that I can’t keep track, let alone keep up.

Jay shows me how it’s done through the rock jam. On the rigid karate monkey, no less. It doesn’t look hard, but I couldn’t get out …. [Continue reading]

Louis is off to lands far, but first he showed me some of the 50 year “B lines”.

The man rides like no one else. His terrain (west side Catalinas) has shaped him. Yet many ride here, few like he does.

Louis doesn’t cut vegetation for his lines. He considers it …. [Continue reading]

It’s the new rage that’s sweeping the city. Get on the bandwagon before everyone else falls off!

Climbing Milagrosa.

OK, it’s just the new rage for Jay and myself.

I realized today that I had climbed the trail four times since returning to Tucson, and have yet to descend it. That’s just not right.

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I finally made it out to Brown Mountain. Self-imposed ride length limits have prevented me from venturing far enough west. But no more.

I met Tim and Zach at the golf course lot. It’s the SDMB ‘single shuffle’ ride, but it was only the three of us. Zach had work, so he peeled off …. [Continue reading]

The storms came. It snowed. So I set out to try to find some snow to ride through.

Climbing Milagrosa. I’ve only done it a handful of times (compared to dozens of descents). Results in the past were mixed. But Jay opened my eyes to how incredibly fun it can be.

It was just so …. [Continue reading]