Last week, the Thursday beer (and Stranahan’s whiskey) crew rode up Quemazon, blindly riding into the setting sun..
This led to a conversation between Rick and Joe …”Rick and I were talking about where we could ride on this last daylight Thursday ride where we wouldn’t be riding into the setting sun”, so we rode Mortandad Canyon..
and still rode blindly into the setting sun
Other than Robert’s absence (With a starting temperature hovering below 40 degrees F, he found more pressing business in Santa Fe. We won’t see him again until May 
), the ride was a typical ride in Los Alamos, there were downed trees so we did some trailwork, or more accurately, they worked, I took pictures..
We rode sweet singletrack passing through spectacular colors with an awesome backdrop of clouds against the Sangre de Christo mountains
and, as usual, Clay gave lessons on riding logs, jumping rocks (although he missed quite a few turns following his jumps), and jumping gaps, including this three foot gap over a nasty water crossing..
Despite the cold (after the ride Clay donned thick ski gloves), we made time for our reason for riding (courtesy of Joe)
More pictures can be found in my photo gallery
This was the last Thursday ride of daylight savings, so it’s time to charge the batteries and break out the lights (and cold weather ride gear)for the beginning of the Thursday night rides..
I really miss the loss of late afternoon daylight and those great evening rides in beautiful temps…but I guess if was the same all the time, we’d have nothing to look forward to with the changing seasons.
“Robert found more pressing business in Santa Fe”? huh?
I’ll have you know I was RIDING in Albuquerque, and it was just as cold and twice as windy! Show some respect for your elders, will ya?