Advice - don't take shelter under a tree. Lightening strikes trees frequently. That's how golfers get kill on a golf course. It happens.
On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 5:48:58 PM UTC-8, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > Today I rode Miwok, Bobcat, Marincello, Tennessee Valley, and Old Springs > Trails in the Marin Headlands. I also detoured to Haypress campground, but > given the sogginess after the all-day rain, I opted to go over the big hill > back to the warmth and excellent coffee of the Marin Headlands Hostel. I'm > glad I did, because the climb up the stair-stepped Old Spring Trail and the > Miwok hillside descent were incredible. > > The bike I'm riding is a Surly Disc Trucker with hydraulic disc brakes and > Rohloff. It has some non-Rivish attributes, of course, but it's steel and > traditional geometry and has ample clearance for my 26x2.0 Schwalbe > Mondials and fenders. Anyway, after coming down the long descent of the > Marincello trail, which is basically a narrow, fairly smooth gravel road, > not single track, I took shelter from the downpour under a big tree. A > couple minutes later a man and a woman on full-suspension MTBs came down > the same trail. They carried on for several minutes in the parking lot, > punctuated by hoots and hollers and repetitive use of a new word for me > "crazeballs", about how "intense" their descent had been. Grant has written > about how extreme equipment tends to make mundane experiences seem more > extreme - like the high adventure of driving a Land Rover to pick up the > groceries. I thought the Marincello descent was fun and beautiful, but > never for a second did I feel that I was having an extreme experience or > pushing the limits of my old-fashioned, unsuspended steel bike. -- 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/-/IRPkF17FJXIJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
