Thanks for taking, annotating and posting the pics Manny. I think your take on the Griz versus Riv gangs is funny and insightful; especially so since I have one foot in each camp. I sure hope we can do this again. Maybe Mike or the single speeders will show us the way around the Marin headlands.
Tony On Jan 3, 6:06 pm, Manuel Acosta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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.
