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Awesome day in the Santa Ana River trail. Hitting a bike shop tomorrow to get some local knowledge... & hopefully getting an earlier start to the day.
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We took a bit of a 'detour' during our Sunday afternoon drive. The Montero survived just fine. I'm still a bit concerned about Donna.
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One last look at the mountain and trees around Big Bear Lake. The scenery I'll miss... the weather, not so much.
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Sunday was our coldest day on the trail. How we ever survived the freezing temperatures of Bend, Chicago and Utah, I'll never know.
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It was a bizarre day on the trail... cycling through a forest burned years ago during a fire, a trail that was constantly moving you up, down, left and right, and fast-moving clouds that were always coming toward us but never reaching us.
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Donna headin' toward the clouds we never seemed to be able to reach. Awesome day on the trail today although it was also much shorter than our other rides.
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THIS is what happens when you mtn bike one handed while shooting video with the other. I'm proud to say the iPhone never actually hit the ground!
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Something to make my sister, the Coca-Cola aficionado, a little jealous - monster Cokes at an Italian restaurant in Big Bear Lake. Turns out no matter what you order, they put it in a CocaCola cup. Sorry Tiff, this place would require a very long drive on
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Donna gets her (unfair) share of flowers... I thought some Fall color would be more romantic, so I plucked this guy from a tree for her.
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This is the best fall color we've seen since Bend, Oregon. Really it reminds me more of the Wasatch Mtns in Utah, where we lived for two years.
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Just another view of smoke from the nearby fire rising over Big Bear Lake. We took a drive around the lake tonight - great scenery other than the smoke.
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Watch out for the obnoxious audio (wind noise) on this one - Donna standing lakeside trying to stay warm! It's friggin' cold here!
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Of course from this perspective, you can't see the smoke at all. Big Bear Lake is beautiful for sure... plus you cam get a great house here for around $200,000! Hopefully you don't mind the neighbors monster truck.
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We walked out of the hotel to discover there's a fire burning over the hillside. Suckin' in smoke all day Sunday will be fun... a great excuse to sleep in and be lazy for the day.
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Donna opted to walk a particularly gnarly section of today's trail. Really I think she just wanted the time to soak up the fall color - of which we get none in the Camarillo area.
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We discovered the rockier side of Big Bear Lake today. My kind'a ridin' for sure. The trail we were most looking forward to turned out to be way too overgrown about a mile into the trail.
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Awesome day in the Santa Ana River trail. Hitting a bike shop tomorrow to get some local knowledge... & hopefully getting an earlier start to the day.
rmeeseiam:
Awesome day in the Santa Ana River trail. Hitting a bike shop tomorrow to get some local knowledge... & hopefully getting an earlier start to the day.
rmeeseiam:
Awesome day in the Santa Ana River trail. Hitting a bike shop tomorrow to get some local knowledge... & hopefully getting an earlier start to the day.
rmeeseiam:
Awesome day in the Santa Ana River trail. Hitting a bike shop tomorrow to get some local knowledge... & hopefully getting an earlier start to the day.
