Catching up on photos and posts: Ricardo invited us all to Joaquin Miller for his birthday party. It was a relatively mellow ride, with hikers along. Ricardo did clean Chaparral, including the diving board, before his 40th. Like I always say about my own riding, he’s trying to become better than he is before he’s […]
It’s been years since we’ve been down to Soquel Demo Forest, and the big climb has been one of my personal Everests since I made it 90% of the way up at California MUni Weekend in 2007, to the bottom of the hard part at the top. It’s been so long since we’ve been back
Two Dollar Hill is scheduled to be closed on May 25th, as Sunset Trail is being re-routed to improve drainage and erosion. So Josh decided he needed to go up and become the fifth unicyclist ever to make it up. (The others: Beau, Stephen, Martin Charrier, and Jamey Mossengren, with Jess Reigel getting honorable mention
Sunday was John Muir’s birthday, so it seemed like a perfect day to go up to Joaquin Miller Park. Muir and Miller were friends, founding members of the California Writers Club, fellow bohemians and environmentalists. Muir almost certainly spent time visiting Miller in the area now known as Joaquin Miller Park, where Miller planted thousands
