Diary of Scott Morris

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, I give you:

The Arizona Trail 300

Yee-haw. I finally put it together. April 14th, 2006. 300 miles of pure mountain biking. I can feel the hurt already.

The course is not 100% final yet. I need to re-ride some of the upper lemmon trails to see just how …. [Continue reading]

Here is Bryan Lee’s article on the AZT ride:

Arizona, Bottom to Top

and

Odyssey on Wheels

He did a great job telling a hard-to-describe story. The only error was a minor one — the GDR is 2500 miles, not 625!! 625 miles was the distance I made it before dropping out.

I’m …. [Continue reading]

2005 is coming to an end, so I thought I might look at how much GPS data I collected this year. Here are the stats from TopoFusion’s logbook:

7162.34 mi (2115.21 mi uphill, 2201.25 mi downhill, 2741.14 mi flat) 689050 ft total ascent (692276 ft descent) – 7.7 % uphill grade, 23.3 % downhill grade …. [Continue reading]

I started feeling frisky late this week. My blisters have healed for the most part, calves are only a little sore and my bed no longer calls me for extended naps.

Trips to Mexico were on my mind, but mainly I was thinking of doing some unloaded, technical riding on my 29er. You might think …. [Continue reading]

I had what feels like the ride of my life on the AZT this past week. Conditions were near perfect and my body stayed strong. I couldn’t be happier.

I crossed the Utah line 7 days and 8 hours after leaving the barb-wire fence at the Mexico border. In that time I rode some 700 …. [Continue reading]

My cold is gone and my hands are doing well, so I’ve been doing a few rides this week. First was a Suburban Assault loop that I bailed out of on the wash. I was too underlit. The batteries on my headlamp were too weak, and the city lights too bright. So I took Pontatoc …. [Continue reading]

Erik Schlimmer (riding from Canada to Mexico) is nearing Tucson, so I have been gearing up for a multi-day trip on the AZT. My plan was brilliant — ride in one day from my house to the Gila River, taking pavement and dirt roads. There I would meet Schlimmer and show him some of the …. [Continue reading]

I seem to write this almost every time I ride in the Redington area, but it’s always what goes through my mind. The desert spoke silence to me as I rolled dirt on Redington Rd. There’s just something about it up there, especially on an early weekday morning when it’s empty. (Redington is far from …. [Continue reading]