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sometimes, life gives you a sweet little bonus...

11/10/2017

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It's no secret.  We ride on Thursday.  Usually, if our wives, kids or lives in general permit, we sneak in some South Mountain or Santan.  It's only on a rare occasions that luck taps any of us on the shoulder and points us out towards what we really love, like some Brown's Ranch.  In the most organic way possible, a ride was thrown together with Ryan and I to meet out there.  He had work until 2 and I had a couple of appointments that miraculously got scheduled out in that general direction.   Almost immediately, our two went to four when DB and Scotty B relayed that they were on board.  From there, the day of, I got the call from Gritz that he was very much interested in participating in our bike hoedown.  ​
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Does this camera angle make my head look fat?
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Ryan Representing Riding Dirty
Upon arriving at the trailhead, there was a full scale rescue going on.  Apparently, from what we were able to gather, someone took a spill up on Browns Mountain.  After some back and forth about what we were going to ride, a decision was made to link together some of the old/new back on the west side of the park including the old West Express, linked up to Hawksnest, then work our way around Granite Mountain and Vaquero.  Gritz had the good sense to take Divide out to Maverick and start his happy hour a bit earlier than the rest of us.  Ryan tacked on bonus miles by very gently coercing us into Wrangler which is easily one of my favorite trails, particularly when it's bathed in the sunset like it was today.  As we were finishing on Upper Ranch, we flew past a monster tarantula.  Spiders scare the crap out of me and I was really wanting to grab a beer before Gritz took off so I kept right on truckin' but the others stopped to gawk.  
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Taking a breather
Post ride usually means a couple of post ride pops at the trail head and today was no exception.  We managed to squeeze out a couple of beers before we all had to head in all of our respective directions.  All things considered, it was a much needed and well earned opportunity that I think  we all needed.  Sunsets at Brown never disappoint.​
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You earn what you burn...or is it you burn what you earn?

Ryan clearing balanced rock

2 Comments
Rastalapasta
12/7/2017 10:30:37 pm

Well said, Scott! Amazing how things lined up that day, always a pleasure to ride dirty with y'all

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Scoottay link
12/8/2017 12:09:02 pm

RastaMan,

I love the tag. You know how it is...trail magic!!!

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