Patrick - according to the US Drought Monitor https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ as well as other sources around the Web, things are not looking very positive for good crop production - especially the Winter wheat this year in the great plains states - due to an on-going drought. Further, as you say there was very little snow pack in the Rockies this Winter, therefore rivers will be low - especially the Colorado River that feeds Southern California. Worse yet, war in the Ukraine for over a decade now has limited the wheat planting there as well. Fasten your seat belt. According to some sources we could be in for world wide famine over the next few+ years.
On Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 3:00:44 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > The River has dried up once or twice in the past few years, tho’ this > usually doesn’t happen until July or August; here it is almost dry, and > forecast to jettison the “almost” very shortly, at the end of May. We’ have > little mountain snowpack during the last 4 or 5 years, tho’ the River did > flood in, I think, 2019 or so. Weather persons are hoping for a good > monsoon, though. > > I rode the Matthews “road bike for dirt” along the groomed grail > paralleling the paved trail parallel to the River, and followed the > non-groomed portion for a couple of miles more before turning around. I > swapped the 44/28 x 14-15-16-17-18-19-20-22-24-28 for a 42/24 X > 13-14-15-16-17-18-19-21-23-28 and this is much better, for the higher high > and considerably lower low without sacrificing close cruising range gaps. > > And in other news I scored a very cheap pair of original edition Compass > 622x44 Snoqualmie Pass extralights, little used, for $80 shipped, and hope > soon to try them with light butyl or TPU tubes on the other Blunt SS > wheelset. > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f407faae-ec81-4164-a64e-845628e241d2n%40googlegroups.com.
