{"id":398,"date":"2007-10-30T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/land-of-salt-and-torment\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:49:46","slug":"land-of-salt-and-torment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/30\/land-of-salt-and-torment\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of Salt and Torment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Darkness<\/a>I was late to the Monday F\/R because I was writing crap on some blog<\/em><\/strong> and had to stop by the gasoline store so I’d be able to get up St. Louis without running dry.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew\u00c2\u00a0was sparse – only Ckucke, JT and\u00c2\u00a0me, but\u00c2\u00a0Pappy swung by the parking lot to make some conversation on his way home to an inconsolably crying child.<\/p>\n

It was\u00c2\u00a0barely twilight when we got up to the top, but it was nice and cool.\u00c2\u00a0 We geared up and rode up to the park.\u00c2\u00a0 The weekend rains were all but dried out, so we dropped down through upper and lower dumps<\/em>, then climbed up agave<\/em> and did the normal trail out.\u00c2\u00a0 Conditions were loose and dusty, especially in the open areas around the hammock-tree<\/em> and the burnt-out area.<\/p>\n

\"JT<\/a>Everyone had some issue or another.\u00c2\u00a0 Ckucke was the only one who rode the log, but didn’t make it all the way down.\u00c2\u00a0 JT went off the trail off a jump on the straight section through the burnt-out area.\u00c2\u00a0 I had forgotten to turn my fork back on after the agave<\/em> climb\u00c2\u00a0and my light went\u00c2\u00a0dim, so I\u00c2\u00a0had a critical stop on the last switchback before the concrete road<\/em> and low-sided my ass into a fist-shaped knob on a boulder.\u00c2\u00a0 That’ll leave a mark<\/em>…\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Got a good bruise going today.<\/p>\n

I made it down in the dark following Ckucke, and we headed back to McBike to recover vehicles and get dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 In front of Puck’s Alley, JT buzzed his front tire against Ckucke’s back tire, and the sound made a nearby innocent bystander jump and nearly soil herself.\u00c2\u00a0 The ensuing cackling laughter at the buzz ticked her off even more as she probably felt that she herself was being laughed at, so she glowered with an evil stink-eye at the hooligan bikers.<\/p>\n

Dinner was at Toritos.\u00c2\u00a0 I had the Tacos al Pastor<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The size was good, but the meat was a little on the tough\/dry side, and was gristley.\u00c2\u00a0 JT and Ckucke had beef-filled burritos.\u00c2\u00a0 We all noticed that the food this time around was on the salty side, most noticably the salsa.\u00c2\u00a0 My taco filling had all<\/em><\/strong> the cumin in it – my hands still smell like cumin today.\u00c2\u00a0 The saltiness was borne out this morning with multiple trips to\u00c2\u00a0drain the bladder in a short period of time.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I\u00c2\u00a0thought the food was better the time we bumped into Mitch there.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Still can’t beat Los Chaparros.\u00c2\u00a0 Around $9 USD including tip.<\/p>\n

D = 3.56-miles, Vavr = 8.7 mph, Vmax = 19.1 on trail, T = 24-minutes\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was late to the Monday F\/R because I was writing crap on some blog and had to stop by the gasoline store so I’d be able to get up St. Louis without running dry.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew\u00c2\u00a0was sparse – only Ckucke, JT and\u00c2\u00a0me, but\u00c2\u00a0Pappy swung by the parking lot to make some conversation on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,8,12,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-6q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}