Morning Ride

Evening Ride

Gasline Ramble 🥈

Highlights:
- Christmas lights in otherwise dark and sleeping town of Cleator
- Sunrise from top of the Bradshaws
- Waterfalls and Christmas decorated trees coming into Crown King
- Hitting sun and views of Kachina Peaks on Horsethief rd
- Flowy solo dirt RD with SW views winding through pines and manzanita  coming down the Bradshaws
- finding Shelly place and Lapha, ruins of old homes
- Flying down a sandy road below Minnehaha
- Talking with a grandpa/grandson hunting 
- Loads of time in the wilderness of the SW Bradshaws seeing nary a soul
- Making the decision several times follow my planned track and take the road less traveled, leading to bad road mayhem time and again
- Doubleshoot and chorizo breakfast burrito for a spirit lifter in Prescott
- Sunset over Granite Mountain
- Tailwind letting me sail my way over the US69 shoulder to Mayer
- Many fun and challenging stream crossings 
- Unexpected high flying speed rolling down AZ179, leading to bewilderment upon reaching Cordes
- Stopping near Bumble Bee and experiencing perfect 1 am silence. 
- Owls greeting me upon reaching my car
- lots of night riding experience. More night than day on this ride. 
- Alistair, my beautiful steed, performing flawlessly and handling easily. Only repair was some added chain lube towards the end
- Felt like I could keep riding at the end. Can’t wait for ultraendurance events this summer
- overall amazing adventure

Lowlights
- Eating shit in full view of the one other vehicle out at 04:30 upon hitting an unexpected sand trap while slowing down from 5 MPH
- Cold times above Crown King before the sun hit
- Never ending sandy hill towards US89
- Steep ice and snow covered roads in Walker
- Cold descent from Walker, taking my phone battery down 60% in 5 minutes
- Electronics. Lots of time stopping to mess with chords
- Maps lying. You call that a major dirt road??
- Hike a bike again and again
- 4 of 22 hours spent not moving but faffing about
- Soreness in right achilles, likely due to bike fit. 
- Stomach pains after eating a pickled sausage from Circle K


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