Every day in Rocky Point is a holiday.
run to the grocery stoh for last minute items
the non-swimming windy-beach game became building a firepit
collections
pteranadon mountain, complete with baby nest
pteranadon tracks
backyard firepit in progress
hey muthafugga, i live in this hole!
pre-dinner beach walk
another night of excellent cold indoor gamery
firepit and marshmallows
equestrian trail-sharing
so ironic that its the one who kicked her last year
I could not bear to put the Heckler in the recycle bin, we’d been through too much together. So I took it out to the desert and gave it a proper burial.
with a great view
rain brought out all the ghetto-tubeless residue, and set the tone for ceremony
bottle opener on the frame still works
i made a toast
and poured some out for my homey
All killer, no filler.
Up Bell from the Scottsdale side, down Bell and Windgate to East End, up East End to Tom’s Thumb, down TT to Windgate, back up and over Windgate to Bell, down Bell to Parasdise. No HOAs fencing off their connector roads, no dodging herds of hikers around Sunrise and Lost Dog, no horrible dirt road, no push up Sonoran Trail to give back 500 vf coming down a sidewalk.
Nowhere as bad as one might think. There was 15 min of HAB near the top of Bell, and 25 HAB to get up East End. We relaxed and took pictures.
up Bell?
drizzly day in the Valley
the fountain is still shooting in Fountain Hills
up East End let us study all the switchbacks for the next descent
we hid from a snow flurry inside the oft-photographed boulders atop Tom’s Thumb
Maad caught in the act of blogging about his radness
The rain made for hero-dirt, I dabbed once on the descent. Maad also nailed switchbacks better than any prior run
20 miles, 3.5 moving time, and my best time ever down Paradise Wash 7:53! Stats show almost 5500 vf.
More pics on James’ site.