by the way..... i got a new bike!

[emily_in_nc]

Nice bike, Cali, congrats!

Just looking at your pictures made me yearn to get my mtb out too, but I'm just too doggone busy right now getting ready for the holidays. And we just got back from vacation in Key Largo (sailing every day - bliss!), so it's been trainer rides for me only. At least all my bumps, bruises, and rib injuries from my last fall have healed up finally. I'm like your DH -- accident-prone!

Enjoy your new ride and try to stay upright, unlike me. Love the pale pink and gray too (that was our wedding colors, oh so long ago -- 1985!)

Emily

[Jones]

Caligirl,
Thanks for the info, Geology Tour Rd. is why I asked about the sand. Going down is not so bad but going up, yuck! The sand just slams your bike to a stop. We have taken Geology Tour to Berdoo Canyon and rode all the way down to Dillon Rd. That was great fun and very easy, but you need a car on Dillon Rd. to get back to JT, we were lucky and got someone to drop us off in the park and then pick us up 4 hours later on Dillon Rd.

The "Goat Trails" are only a couple of miles from me so I ride there durning the week when my kids are in school. Because of time restraints I have not been out to Palm Desert to ride yet but plan on riding the "Bump and Grind" within the next few weeks, hopefully before the New Year.

Maybe I will see you on the trail sometime. Jones.

[caligurl]

wow! you're close!!!! sooooo can you make that gawdawful first climb on the goat trails! lol! that's my goal this year.... to get all the way up it riding!!!! phew!

i just love the goat trails.... we found jane's haffrau (spelling).... (walked down to it!) very cool! we didn't even take the bikes down there... left them at the top of the hill and walked down! lol! i told hubby "i'm NOT pushing my bike all the way back up this hill!" (it was my old even heavier hardrock)

so which bike shop do you use? we use and love palm springs cyclery... chris, scott, cory, all of them are great!!!!!

hopefully we'll see you sometime out on the trails! now that we've discovered them.... i like to go there and ride... then do the "baby wipe bath"... change... and get my shopping done! makes for a nice ride and day... getting both done at once!

have you done that ride that starts up out of palm desert? it eventually end up over at the goat trails? i want to do that one of these day... the MTBR guys are planning it for monday and..... another day? forget which one?

so you can't come back on berdoo? like if we drove down into the geology loop... parked and rode out berdoo... it's not rideable to come back? hubby's talked about wanting to do that... but i don't want to if i can't ride back to the car!

ok... i'm babbling.....

[caligurl]

Nice bike, Cali, congrats!

Just looking at your pictures made me yearn to get my mtb out too, but I'm just too doggone busy right now getting ready for the holidays. And we just got back from vacation in Key Largo (sailing every day - bliss!), so it's been trainer rides for me only. At least all my bumps, bruises, and rib injuries from my last fall have healed up finally. I'm like your DH -- accident-prone!

Enjoy your new ride and try to stay upright, unlike me. Love the pale pink and gray too (that was our wedding colors, oh so long ago -- 1985!)

Emily

thanx, emily!

ya... i'm less daring than hubby... but i STILL remember doing the endo the first time i rode my mtb wtih hubby and KC.... i did NOT like that! so if i'm leary of something... i WALK!!

oh my... key largo and sailing... *sigh*