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MTB - Dusty Skeggs with the father-and-son duo of Mehrdad & Sepand • 8/6/18

Down Resolution and down Manzanita.

Then afterwards, Mehrdad invited me over for a homemade pulled pork sandwich (he made his own pickles and sauce, too!):

8.5 miles, 1600 feet Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1754758791

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Impromptu Skeggs Manzanita & Blue Blossom Loopin' with far flung friends Miki & Doug • 6/12/18

Well this was a treat! I was scheduled to work 8:00 am until noon today, and had found out that Doug, who’s been up in the North Bay building trails recently was going to be heading south. Maybe we could get in a ride? Sure! Got my high school friend Miki, who lives in Marin, looped in, as she was looking to ride at Skeggs some time—and she was available too! So, got done with work and hustled to get a quick lunch and meet up with them at Skeggs at 1:30.

Usually I’m up at Skeggs early in the day, and it’s often chilly, foggy, or damp at the start. But in the early afternoon on a day in mid-June it’s about 80 degrees and sunny. Luckily it felt cooler under the trees.

I wanted to give them a good sense of the variety available at El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve (aka Skeggs) and picked two “outside loops”: a loop down Manzanita Trail, which is my favorite trail at Skeggs running through manzanita tunnels and some technical descending down some rocky parts, and a loop down Blue Blossom under the redwoods, which is a really fun descent.

When I first met Doug we had a discussion about New Mexico Hatch green chiles, and when he got back home to New Mexico he sent me a big box of fresh roasted & frozen chiles, as well as about 100 tortillas from his favorite local tortilleria. And, note cards with a recipe for Hatch green chile chicken enchiladas! It was a feast, and oh, so good. This time he showed up with big bags of dried New Mexican red chiles and some tips about how to use them to their best advantage. “Red chili cheese enchiladas perhaps. Or maybe red chili stew with cubed pork sirloin with a little diced potato.”

More likely 13 miles, 2500 feet, since that’s what both Doug & Miki got. Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1635091303

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Friday Skeggs with Janet. No Matt, we're fresh out of Matts • 6/1/18

Matt A has a new job that won’t let him ride on Fridays, and Matt C has moved to Nipomo. We’ve tried coming up with another Matt, as a Friday at Skeggs just doesn’t feel right without one, but to no avail. Sigh. So we must soldier on, and ride anyway.

The ride, however matt-lesss it was, was great! What a difference a week makes: Last week it was raining up here, and too cold/muddy to do much of a ride. This week we have sun filtering through the redwoods, and hero dirt! I had my fenders on, but really didn’t need them as there were few puddles left. There was a big, beautiful Madrone tree down on Manzanita Trail, which required some scrambling to clear, but otherwise the trails were in fine shape. There were a bunch of Douglass Irises around, and I got one nice picture of one of those. Towards the end of the ride as we were heading back up and out on Gordon Mill Trail, Janet squealed and swerved in an attempt to avoid a lizard. Which she did, so we thought, as we saw the lizard scramble off the trail and disappear into the leaves by the side. I've known that lizards can drop their tails as a distraction for predators, but I'd never seen one immediately after separating from the lizard. The gyrations this one went through, and for how long, was just mesmerizing! I only got 7 seconds of video, but this movement can go on for a long time! I'm sure this is a great survival adaptation: