Ride happened. Good weather, good folks. I'll start with some of my highlights. Getting to the start of the ride I'm greeted by Rivendell folks and Grizzle Peak Cyclists. Apparently GPC does an yearly ride up Diablo for NYE. It was funny because I imagined chaos when our two groups interacted with each other. Like two rival gangs meeting at a hangout to have an old school brawl that involved steel and twine vs carbon and lycra. Sadly the truth was much more civil then you realized. We all exchanged New Year greetings as we tried to figure out who was the ride leader for our group. Despite designing a route for the ride I had no intentions on following it if Joe was going to lead the way to Green Ranch and Joe wasn't there. So we figured we would just ride to Joe's house and see what happens. We meet Joe along the way and he maps out a direction he was planning on going and if anyone else wanted to follow him they can join in on the fun. We headed towards the top of the mountain in a sea of cyclist making their way on the road. We continued onto Green Ranch to check out the old pool and chimney. We took pictures, Dustin shared his salami and I share my prosciutto -provolone wrap and we took off riding some gnarly, rutted, rocky descent near Frog pond. We found ourselves at a trail marker that said end of trail. Lost, we had Sean be the ginny pig to check up ahead if the trail really did end. It did, Sean rode back. Dav shared some of his Fig-Newtons and we had more salami from Dustin. Our climb out of valley turned more into a hike when the mud started sticking and fenders needed to get unstuck. Finally back on the road we made our way to some food. We didn't have tacos like those PDX guys we had sandwiches instead. It was cool to note that just about everyone on the ride was someone that I've ridden before on a separate ride. It was interesting how everyone reacted when all clumped together on a ride also it was great how everyone stuck together and were in good spirits despite not really knowing where we were going. Huge thanks to Joe for leading the way toward new trails. Adventure is good when you have company that are willing to get lost for a bit.
Pictures prove that this new year will be great: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjDtASDU -Manny "To more riding!" Acosta -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ozaqpT14Rv8J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
