Trail Wanderlust
Still catching up with the summer festivities. Here is a video from the Alpine Trail out of Oakridge Oregon. The video really does not do it justice. I have not toyed with one of those 360 degree action cameras yet but I think it would have been useful to try and capture some of the … Continue reading “The Alpine Trail – Video”
It had been way too long since I had been out to Alpine for some Wednesday stoke with Steve (AKA Aquaholic). So some emails were sent and in the very first reply Steve was laying the ground for a lackluster performance. He saud he has been doing nothing but working on stupid human tricks on his … Continue reading “Return of Wednesday Stoke in Alpine”
It was time for another round of playing on the rocks out in Alpine yesterday. There was going to be four of us on this ride. Brian was going to start later in the day and meet us up top. Jim was joining us today and this was going to be his first excursion out here. It was an amazingly nice … Continue reading “More Alpine Playtime”
Wednesday Stoke ride was going off again this week with great weather out in Alpine. Due to my own discombobulations at the trailhead, I started climbing about 10 minutes after Steve and Evan did. I tried to tell myself to just do my normal climb but I did not listen and decided to make a go of … Continue reading “Wednesday Stoke in Alpine”
This past week I made a long overdue appearance at Steve’s Wednesday Stoke ride in Alpine. The weather was great which made the climb up to the top go pretty well. I was playing with both my Digital SLR camera as well my GoPro Hero 3 today. This was the second outing with thing … Continue reading “Video Tinker Time in Alpine”
With my various travels over the late summer and fall I have not spent too much time riding in the usual SoCal spots. Home was home base long enough last week to allow for a bit of playtime out at one of the usual haunts in Alpine, Anderson Truck Trail. The weather was pretty freaking awesome … Continue reading “Back to playing in Alpine”
It had been far to long since I have have been out to play on one of my favorite tech play grounds out in Alpine but I finally got back out this week. This ride was nearly called off due to impending rain, but since San Diego attracts on the sharpest weather guessing minds, the … Continue reading “Alpine Return”
Ahhhh, Wednesday, time for something different. Uhhhh, maybe next week. This week it was time for another session of Wednesday stoke in Alpine. While warm, it was not stupidly hot so the climb was not quite the usual summertime brain boil fest. The lack of death heat was good thing as my legs has some sting … Continue reading “Wednesday Alpine Stoke”
Another Wednesday and another day to go play in Alpine. Climb Climb Climb The winter storm over the weekend through a nice dusting of snow on the mountains. There was snow all the way down to ATT on Sunday, but I had retreated up the hill by Wednesday. A little airtime There was much discussion … Continue reading “Yet More Alpine Wendesday Fun”
Time for another round of Wednesday fun in Alpine. The weather was starting to roll in but most of the time sky was full of white puffy clouds with a pretty blue backdrop. I had not been here since the big batch of rain we had a while back and it was pretty astonished to see … Continue reading “Wednesday Stoke in Alpine”