This is fresh inspiration for what I'd like to do on my Bombadil - thank you for sharing!
On Saturday, 2 April 2022 at 15:50:03 UTC-7 Craig Montgomery wrote: > Hot damn Erl, was this your introduction to the Southwest? Good > start...for its beauty and because you picked a region that isn't too > topographically challenged which makes things nicer the first time around. > Haven't toured in that specific area but have done a fair amount a few > hours to the northwest and southwest. It just reeks of history, prehistory, > geology, and a few other -ologies. Several mammoth kill sites dating back > over 10,000 years in that area. And the night skies...holey moley...the > Milky Way woke me up one morning about 3:30 it was so bright. You could > spend years just reading about that country and years riding it. Your Hunq > is/was more than adequate for a ride like that. And after 40 years down > here I found that tubeless has never been a "necessity". > > Thanks for some great photos. > Craig in Tucson > > On Friday, April 1, 2022 at 6:32:41 AM UTC-7 WETH wrote: > >> I spent a few days with a friend exploring Las Cruces, NM and the >> northern half of the Monument Loop 2.0 ( >> https://bikepacking.com/routes/monumental-loop/). I rode my Hunqapillar >> and found it equal to the task. The Monumental Loop contains paved roads, >> paved bike paths, gravel paths, dirt roads of varying quality, single >> track, and sections of hike-a-bike trails. I find the desert therapeutic, >> especially in early spring! The camping spots we found were beautiful and >> remote. We divided the northern half of the loop into three 45ish mile >> days, which was the perfect pace at which to enjoy the scenery, to eat >> meals in a few of towns we passed through, and to insure remote camping >> spots. >> >> Photo of the Hunqapillar here: >> https://erlhouston.smugmug.com/Family/2022/Monumental-Loop--March/i-JwThrQ3/A >> >> More highlight photos of the trip here on Instagram: >> >> https://www.instagram.com/p/CbuahSlu6FA/?utm_medium=copy_link >> >> https://www.instagram.com/p/CbxCEBbuTbw/?utm_medium=copy_link >> >> All the photos from the trip here on SmugMug: >> >> https://erlhouston.smugmug.com/Family/2022/Monumental-Loop--March >> >> Hoping everyone can enjoy their favorite type of riding in 2022! >> >> Erl >> >> Kensington, MD >> >> -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a67740bb-1551-46f5-a30b-f67d50f04ff5n%40googlegroups.com.
