We rode Fromme again on Sunday, a beautiful, sunny day
after several days of relentless rain. Here is view from the
climb up (L-R, CraigH, Constantin, Alan and Robin):
We decide to do Upper Oilcan, where a crowd of about 25
teenagers on bikes is milling around the entrance ... looks
like a school outing or something. We wait for them, they go
down the trail and we never see them again.
Oilcan is a such a friendly trail, you can just "drop in"
anytime (wanna guess who the spectator on the right-hand side
is?)
After Oilcan, its off to ride Ladies' Only for CraigH,
Constantin and me. Here I am, in equilibrium with a
teeter-totter
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Here is Constantin going big ...
This is what CraigH is riding these days ... you can see
the smoke rising from it too:
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Just a final note of interest. CraigH gave me the 10-minute
walking tour of the rock they call "Big Stupid". To the
untrained eye, it looks like a 10 foot high monolith. However,
on closer examination, the rock has several personalities. I
was shown the "Big Stupid" and "Semi-Retarded" lines, the 10
ft and 7 ft vertical drops on one the side of the rock.
On the front of Big Stupid is "Milky Wade" (named after
none other than Wade Simmons - if you haven't heard of Wade,
then I'd like to see the rock YOU'VE been hiding under). Check
out the angry moss-covered furrows on the right-hand side of
the rock. Reminescent of a petrified Jabba-the-Hut. This is
one angry piece of stone.