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  1. Original post
    gabrielle
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    Our town's been invaded by GRS for the Mt Hood Classic. Sarge called me
    up & said "Let's get out of here & hit the Syncline for a couple of hours.
    I need to hammer." Last week when we went for a ride there, we'd got
    caught in a rainstorm & winds so strong I got blown over & off my bike.
    Clouds were piling up in a similar manner today, so we beat feet for the
    Washington side.

    About a month ago Sarge introduced me to the bottom section of Coyote.
    Normal people ride this one in a downward direction. Crazy people ride
    up. You know which camp I'm in. Last time we'd ridden for about a half
    hour before tiring of the "on the bike, off the bike" dance & turning
    around for some veryveryfast downhill. Today, we made it to the same
    spot in 15 minutes with no dabs. I was more than willing to turn around
    at that point but Sarge (who's ridden up it before) suggested we ride
    "just a bit" farther. (Now where have I heard that before...)

    I ended up having one of the best rides of my life. My winter weight
    training regimen has given me that extra little "oompf" required to get
    over more challenging trail obstacles, and I was finally able to apply the
    "look where you want to go" rule (and its more useful cousin "don't look
    where you don't want to go"😉 in the extensive rock gardens. I've always
    been too freaked out by the pointy stuff to really commit to it. Today I
    rolled over stuff I'd not have thought possible for me to do. Threaded
    some pretty narrow switchback slots between big boulders too. 🙂

    "Just a bit" farther turned into heading for the top. Two hours of nearly
    unrelenting technical problems later & we popped out on the road for a
    long grind up to Agony Hill. At the last minute we decided to pass on the
    Agony, opting for the scenic route down to Maui. I still can't clean the
    first stream crossing in Maui, but my brain was so tuned in after the
    warmup on Coyote that I rocked & rolled everything else, a first for me.
    What a great feeling.

    45 minutes later we were back at the car & Sarge was treating me to one of
    her fabulous lemon-cocunut bars. (She's my understudy for Trail Snack
    Queen - I'm hoping to glom some new recipes for AMB-ID '06.)

    Injuries - we have plenty but they're all too superficial to warrant
    mentioning. Oh yeah, there was one strange incident where some small
    fuzzy wasps got in my shirt & started gnawing away & I had to do the
    flinging off of the helmet & shirt & dancing around slapping myself thing.
    I'm sure that looked entertaining.

    I'll know in about 2 days if my 3 attempts to stop & wash off the poison
    oak were successful.

    gabrielle

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  2. Ride-A-Lot
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    Liberal snippage taken from a great ride report.

    gabrielle said:

    About a month ago Sarge introduced me to the bottom section of Coyote.
    Normal people ride this one in a downward direction. Crazy people ride
    up. You know which camp I'm in. Last time we'd ridden for about a half
    hour before tiring of the "on the bike, off the bike" dance & turning
    around for some veryveryfast downhill. Today, we made it to the same
    spot in 15 minutes with no dabs. I was more than willing to turn around
    at that point but Sarge (who's ridden up it before) suggested we ride
    "just a bit" farther. (Now where have I heard that before...)

    It's all about the "up".

    Quoted message said:


    Injuries - we have plenty but they're all too superficial to warrant
    mentioning. Oh yeah, there was one strange incident where some small
    fuzzy wasps got in my shirt & started gnawing away & I had to do the
    flinging off of the helmet & shirt & dancing around slapping myself thing.
    I'm sure that looked entertaining.

    This part is nothing without pictures! 😉 Someone must have been hiding
    behind the trees and we need to find them.

    Quoted message said:


    I'll know in about 2 days if my 3 attempts to stop & wash off the poison
    oak were successful.

    OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the
    East's Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the
    way of noxious plants?

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    www.schnauzers.ws

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  3. gabrielle
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    Ride-A-Lot said:

    OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the East's
    Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    noxious plants?

    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

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  4. small change
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    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Ride-A-Lot said:

    OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the East's
    Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    noxious plants?

    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

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  5. Shawn
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    small change said:

    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Ride-A-Lot said:

    OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the East's
    Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    noxious plants?

    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

    I've not seen a lot, but it does grow in Colorado. I recall some on the
    front range and seeing some at Mesa Verde.

    Shawn

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  6. MattB
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    Shawn said:
    small change said:

    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:30:43 -0400, Ride-A-Lot wrote:

    > OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the
    > East's
    > Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    > noxious plants?

    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

    I've not seen a lot, but it does grow in Colorado. I recall some on the
    front range and seeing some at Mesa Verde.

    Shawn

    We only seem to get the pointy plants (as far as plants that will hurt
    you) up here.

    Matt

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  7. Raptor
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    small change said:

    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Ride-A-Lot said:

    OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the East's
    Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    noxious plants?


    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

    Stinging nettle in the moist parts of the forests. Lovely stuff.

    --
    Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
    I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the
    trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view,
    the most insidious of traitors."
    George H.W. Bush, April 16, 1999,

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  8. Werehatrack
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    On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:40:30 -0600, MattB <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    Shawn said:
    small change said:

    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    > On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:30:43 -0400, Ride-A-Lot wrote:
    >
    >> OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the
    >> East's
    >> Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    >> noxious plants?
    >
    > I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.
    >

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

    I've not seen a lot, but it does grow in Colorado. I recall some on the
    front range and seeing some at Mesa Verde.

    We only seem to get the pointy plants (as far as plants that will hurt
    you) up here.

    Poisonous plants aren't just a backcountry hazard. I've spotted
    poison ivy in lots of places around Houston, including, in one
    particularly memorable instance, growing up a utility pole on which
    pedestrian walk light signal buttons were mounted. In the Seattle
    area, they've got an urban gardening hazard known as giant hogweed.
    In the hill country to the north and west of me, we get poison ivy,
    poison oak, poison sumac and a variety of sharp pointy plants, but at
    least we're not in desert cactus country; no cholla. Oh, and no
    goatheads so far.
    --
    Typoes are a feature, not a bug.
    Some gardening required to reply via email.
    Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

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  9. Ride-A-Lot
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    Raptor said:
    small change said:

    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:30:43 -0400, Ride-A-Lot wrote:

    > OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the
    > East's
    > Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    > noxious plants?
    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

    Stinging nettle in the moist parts of the forests. Lovely stuff.

    I experienced that bit of fun in Idaho, last year. Is that the same as
    fireweed? We have that on the east coast.

    --
    o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
    www.schnauzers.ws

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  10. Jimbo(san)
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    gabrielle said:

    Our town's been invaded by GRS for the Mt Hood Classic. Sarge called me
    up & said "Let's get out of here & hit the Syncline for a couple of hours.
    I need to hammer."


    <Snip>

    Quoted message said:

    gabrielle

    That was a cool RR Gab

    Jimbo(san)

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  11. G.T.
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    Ride-A-Lot said:
    Raptor said:
    small change said:

    "gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    > On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:30:43 -0400, Ride-A-Lot wrote:
    >
    >> OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the
    >> East's
    >> Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    >> noxious plants?
    >
    > I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.
    >
    > gabrielle

    I'm in the west and we have Poison Ivy here along the rivers.

    Stinging nettle in the moist parts of the forests. Lovely stuff.

    I experienced that bit of fun in Idaho, last year. Is that the same as
    fireweed? We have that on the east coast.

    I love nettles, too.

    When I did my trip up the coast a couple of summers ago I ran into an
    eldery couple picking plants by the side of the road. It was blackberry
    country but I didn't see any berries on this road so I stopped to ask
    them what they were picking. Turns out they were picking stinging
    nettle leaves for tea, supposed to be good for arthritis.

    Greg

    --
    "All my time I spent in heaven
    Revelries of dance and wine
    Waking to the sound of laughter
    Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons

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  12. JD
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    gabrielle said:

    Oh yeah, there was one strange incident where some small
    fuzzy wasps got in my shirt & started gnawing away & I had to do the
    flinging off of the helmet & shirt & dancing around slapping myself thing.

    I would have paid money to see that.

    JD

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  13. JD
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    gabrielle said:
    Ride-A-Lot said:

    OK, bit of a hijack here. So Colorado being somewhere between the East's
    Poison Ivy and the West's Poison Oak. What do they have in the way of
    noxious plants?

    I haven't a clue but I bet JD does.

    gabrielle

    I never saw Ivy in Colorado, nor PO, but have beeen nettled a couple of
    times.

    JD

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  14. Raptor
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    Ride-A-Lot said:
    Raptor said:

    Stinging nettle in the moist parts of the forests. Lovely stuff.

    I experienced that bit of fun in Idaho, last year. Is that the same as
    fireweed? We have that on the east coast.

    I don't know.

    --
    Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
    I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the
    trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view,
    the most insidious of traitors."
    George H.W. Bush, April 16, 1999,

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  15. small change
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    Raptor said:
    Ride-A-Lot said:
    Raptor said:

    Stinging nettle in the moist parts of the forests. Lovely stuff.

    I experienced that bit of fun in Idaho, last year. Is that the same
    as fireweed? We have that on the east coast.

    I don't know.

    Fireweed here in the West is a lovely, innocuous wildflower.

    Penny

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