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Jd · 2003-10-20T04:45:41+00:00

No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us. Getting above treeline in October can be fun...if you let it be so. Ok, just a few trees and Mr. Moonlight below 11,000ft. http://gallery.consumerreview.com/webcrossing/images/101903001.jpg What you can't see is the snowfield Angry Man just walked up. http://gallery.consumerreview.com/webcrossing/images/101903004.jpg We're going thataway. After minimal snowplowing at 13,000ft, we dropped into this most excellent valley of singletrack. http://gallery.consumerreview.com/webcrossing/images/101903006.jpg Exiting one of the many switchbacks, this one being the smoothest of the lot by far. http://gallery.consumerreview.com/webcrossing/images/101903008.jpg One of my "white whales" on this trail, the infamous "S Turn" switchbacks. It's now a former white whale. http://gallery.consumerreview.com/webcrossing/images/101903010.jpg Back in the flats after hanging behind the saddle for 3,000ft, a nice change. http://gallery.consumerreview.com/webcrossing/images/101903012.jpg JD

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Jd
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20 October 2003, 04:45 UTC #1

No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us. Getting above treeline in October
can be fun...if you let it be so.
Ok, just a few trees and Mr. Moonlight below 11,000ft.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903001.jpg
What you can't see is the snowfield Angry Man just walked up.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903004.jpg
We're going thataway. After minimal snowplowing at 13,000ft, we dropped into this most excellent
valley of singletrack.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903006.jpg
Exiting one of the many switchbacks, this one being the smoothest of the lot by far.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903008.jpg
One of my "white whales" on this trail, the infamous "S Turn" switchbacks. It's now a former
white whale.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903010.jpg
Back in the flats after hanging behind the saddle for 3,000ft, a nice change.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903012.jpg
JD

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Donnell
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20 October 2003, 05:15 UTC #2

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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
but where's your daughter?

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Squid-In-Traini
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20 October 2003, 05:46 UTC #3

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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
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Phil, Squid-in-Training

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Donnell
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20 October 2003, 06:16 UTC #4

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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
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Phil, Squid-in-Training
Yeah, the "Deadbeat Dad Times"

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Per LöWdin
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20 October 2003, 07:15 UTC #5

Nice pics, from somewhere in the Rockies, but you don´t say from where they are? Is it a secret?
Per lowdin.nulowdin.nu

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Penny S
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20 October 2003, 15:03 UTC #6

Phil, Squid-in-Training spray painted on a boxcar:
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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
what we don't know is how many get deleted because they are [censored]. ;-)
Penny

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Mattb
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20 October 2003, 16:06 UTC #7

"JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us. Getting above treeline in October
can be fun...if you let it be so.
Very nice. Uncompadre?
Matt

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Chris Glidden
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20 October 2003, 17:00 UTC #8

"JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us. Getting above treeline in October
can be fun...if you let it be so.
Ok, just a few trees and Mr. Moonlight below 11,000ft.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903001.jpg
What you can't see is the snowfield Angry Man just walked up.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903004.jpg
We're going thataway. After minimal snowplowing at 13,000ft, we dropped into this most excellent
valley of singletrack.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903006.jpg
Exiting one of the many switchbacks, this one being the smoothest of the lot by far.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903008.jpg
One of my "white whales" on this trail, the infamous "S Turn" switchbacks. It's now a former
white whale.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903010.jpg
Back in the flats after hanging behind the saddle for 3,000ft, a nice change.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903012.jpg
JD
Excellent pictorial, once again.
CG

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Jd
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20 October 2003, 17:57 UTC #9

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Nice pics, from somewhere in the Rockies, but you don´t say from where they are? Is it a secret?
Everywhere I ride is a secret, Per. If one can't use their imagination and/or roll the dice in
finding a good ride once in a while, they don't deseve to be called a mountain biker. Those who sit
back and glean all of the free information from the internet and go where the ragazines tell them
it's "cool" to ride are nothing more than morons on bicycles.
JD

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Jd
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20 October 2003, 17:57 UTC #10

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No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us. Getting above treeline in
October can be fun...if you let it be so.
Very nice. Uncompadre?
Somewhere like that. It was a roll of the dice, you almost getting a phone call mid-morning
yesterday. Sometimes last minute decisions are the best.
JD

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Jon Bond
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20 October 2003, 18:11 UTC #11

"Penny S" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Phil, Squid-in-Training spray painted on a boxcar:
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> No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
what we don't know is how many get deleted because they are [censored]. ;-)
Penny
Probably fewer than pro photographers delete. You ever see how much film they take with them? They
shoot hundreds and hundreds of photographs, and only pick a few from the lot. 1/3 of photography is
art, 1/3 is skill, and the other third is luck.
Jon "Not a good photographer" Bond

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Jd
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20 October 2003, 18:11 UTC #12

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Phil, Squid-in-Training spray painted on a boxcar:
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> No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
what we don't know is how many get deleted because they are [censored]. ;-)
Quite a few Penny, but as a few here know, the best ones don't get posted at mtbr(etards) or here.
JD

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Mattb
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20 October 2003, 19:40 UTC #13

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Somewhere like that. It was a roll of the dice, you almost getting a phone call mid-morning
yesterday. Sometimes last minute decisions are the best.
JD
I was out doing a solo "tour de Hartman's" on the SS. I was feelin' the magic!
Only saw a couple of people out there (kind of unusual for a Sunday during hunting season) and knew
them both.
Matt (even got some honey do's done!)

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Per LöWdin
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21 October 2003, 02:45 UTC #14

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Those who sit back and glean all of the free information from the internet and go where the
ragazines tell them it's "cool" to ride are nothing more than morons on bicycles.
- hmm, I´d say it is pretty rational to sift out where the best rides are, unless you are some into
some extreme form Rosseaueanism, makes it possible to ride a good one instead of a poor or mucky
one at times. Though, of course, sometimes you can find really nice singletrack where you might
not expect it.
Per lowdin.nulowdin.nu

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Bill Wheeler
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21 October 2003, 04:16 UTC #15

(JD) said:
No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us. Getting above treeline in October
can be fun...if you let it be so.
Ok, just a few trees and Mr. Moonlight below 11,000ft.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903001.jpg
What you can't see is the snowfield Angry Man just walked up.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903004.jpg
We're going thataway. After minimal snowplowing at 13,000ft, we dropped into this most excellent
valley of singletrack.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903006.jpg
Exiting one of the many switchbacks, this one being the smoothest of the lot by far.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903008.jpg
One of my "white whales" on this trail, the infamous "S Turn" switchbacks. It's now a former
white whale.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903010.jpg
Back in the flats after hanging behind the saddle for 3,000ft, a nice change.
gallery.consumerreview.com101903012.jpg
JD
Nice, Bill

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Mojo Deluxe
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21 October 2003, 04:16 UTC #16

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> "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>> No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
what we don't know is how many get deleted because they are [censored]. ;-)
Quite a few Penny, but as a few here know, the best ones don't get posted at mtbr(etards) or here.

Why not? I rather enoy them.

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21 October 2003, 04:16 UTC #17

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>> "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>>> No air, no grass, no trees, no game, no hunters, nobody but us.
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> Wow. All your pictures are always like out of a magazine.
what we don't know is how many get deleted because they are [censored]. ;-)
Quite a few Penny, but as a few here know, the best ones don't get posted at mtbr(etards)
or here.

Why not? I rather enoy them.
Because it would be like displaying a pic of your own wife, butt naked, spread eagle on the net.
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Slacker - ... dang, I'm sooo profound!

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21 October 2003, 04:46 UTC #18

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> what we don't know is how many get deleted because they are [censored].

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Quite a few Penny, but as a few here know, the best ones don't get posted at mtbr(etards) or
here.

Why not? I rather enoy them.
Because it would be like displaying a pic of your own wife, butt naked, spread eagle on the net.

I see the light.
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I second that.

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21 October 2003, 05:16 UTC #19

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Those who sit back and glean all of the free information from the internet and go where the
ragazines tell them it's "cool" to ride are nothing more than morons on bicycles.
- hmm, I´d say it is pretty rational to sift out where the best rides are, unless you are some
into some extreme form Rosseaueanism, makes it possible to ride a good one instead of a poor or
mucky one at times. Though, of course, sometimes you can find really nice singletrack where you
might not expect it.
At least you ended your reply with the spirit. Rationality is for "serious" mountain bikers. We
flipped a coin a few times Sunday AM and wound up where the photos were taken.
JD

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21 October 2003, 05:16 UTC #20

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Somewhere like that. It was a roll of the dice, you almost getting a phone call mid-morning
yesterday. Sometimes last minute decisions are the best.
JD
I was out doing a solo "tour de Hartman's" on the SS. I was feelin' the magic!
Only saw a couple of people out there (kind of unusual for a Sunday during hunting season) and
knew them both.
That was our second choice and a close one it was. Saturday was spent singlespeeding on a tour de
Bookcliffs, so we decided and gambled that our final choice was open. Let's see Hartman's stay open
until mod-November, shall we?
JD

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