10/17-18 Weekend in Pics
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SpartaBard
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Meat at a Cub Scout camping trip
Coaching my sons hockey game
Coaching my sons hockey game
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
After @2Julianas and @pooriggy gave me the nickel tour on my SS at JORBA-fest last week, I wanted to come back with a more forgiving bike. Brought my Trigger to Halters so @jdog could re-re adjust the dyad rear shock Friday and the plan was to explore Jungle Saturday. Well, the kids swim meet ran over by more than an hour and the high school invitational XC meet was getting out so I didn't get all the way up there till after 4pm. No exploring for me. 🙁 I met a guy at the gate (Mel) who's never been, well the more the merrier. Only had time for Warthog and upper chute before the shadows became a concern but it was enough. Well, I've barely scratched the surface, but I get it now. I absolutely LOVE riding the Trigger here.
Mel was in the spirt of the place.
And yours truly. 😉
Mel was in the spirt of the place.
And yours truly. 😉
Robin
Well-Known Member
Halloween in Lambertville
Cooler temps caused my tire pressure light to come on. @HeavyMetaLance says it looks like a butthole
Cooler temps caused my tire pressure light to come on. @HeavyMetaLance says it looks like a butthole
axcxnj
Hipster Keys
went to the Runners World Half Marathon & Festival over the weekend with Aly and some friends. Saturday we raced a 5k, then a 10K. Sunday was the half marathon. I didnt go out super hard on saturday, so that I would have some legs left for sunday. overall im pretty happy with my times. took a tour of the steel stacks and learned a lot of cool history. This is a really fun event at an awesome venue. if you at all like to run, id recommend it.
i also learned that i no longer fit on the playground rides = [
steel stacks on a beautiful day
I was really happy with my half marathon time..but monday my legs were a mess.
i also learned that i no longer fit on the playground rides = [
steel stacks on a beautiful day
I was really happy with my half marathon time..but monday my legs were a mess.
gtluke
The Moped
My weekend started early.
Wednesday I played physics in my front yard
Thursday I went climbing with Aaron and he showed me how not to place protection.
ZIG ZAG I CAN'T PULL THE ROPE NO MO
Shockly's ceiling. The first guy to ever climb through this ceiling with mr shockly, the inventor of the transistor. Shock!
Bonus, there was a cam stuck in the ceiling that the previous climbers left, maybe it was dark, maybe it was a novice climber, but Aaron said it came right out so I got to keep it. ~$75
Here comes Aaron
Credibility Gap.
I got my protection in but didn't clip the rope yet. See it dangle. Clip it and climb out under that ceiling into thin air. Super cool climb.
Then, the rope got stuck.
STUCK
It must have jammed into a crack in the rock, I could pull maybe a foot at a time with all my might. I built an anchor and asked Aaron to tie himself into the rope in the middle. Normally you would tie in at the end, but I couldn't pull up 70m of rope like that, I'd die. So if he tied in half way I'd only have to pull up 30m of rope MAX until he got to the point where it was stuck. Aaron gets almost to me when the loose end of the rope gets stuck. WTF.
Some creative rope management and Aaron gets all my gear out of the rock, and then we get him back on the ground using the loose end of the rope and creative knots. He free's the rope, I rappel back down. Then we notice we are not set up perfectly to top rope on Welcome To the Gunks, an uber classic super hard climb. We both climb that, it was freakin awesome.
We're beautiful
Friday:
Chris RU came over and we tore apart this lawn tractor someone gave me. He needed the transmission.
Then,
Sourlands!
Then go work on those trees.
When I had gotten home from climbing, my neighbor had already cut up those trees into 18" logs for me and stacked them up and cleaned up the lawn. He was bored. lol
I took care of the tops of the trees.
Forgot to take more pictures
Then dinner with the Mirsky's and Bob and his parents
Saturday I rebuilt the circuit board on the igniter on my motorcycle. I learned that you can't jump start a motorcycle (or at least mine) off a car or batter charger on high start mode. It fried the igniter.
I replaced the 4 caps.
Now it fires perfect! But I still have one carb that's not firing at idle. UGH fucking CARPOTATOS.
Then I finished the trees completely and started addressing the god damn acorns on my lawn that are killing it.
Check this shit out.
I took SEVEN of those big tote containers full of just acorns off my lawn. What a holy pain in the balls that was. But my lawn was dying.
Then I ate my weight at sushi. I don't know who that lady on the left is but the black and white striped shirt suggests French.
Then I ate half a F'ing ice cream cake because THESE PEOPLE WERE LETTING IT MELT.
Sunday I went to Mitch's house and then over to HXPXMXPX or whatever it was and hung out with everyone.
Left there and went to my mom's for dinner.
I didnt' take enough pictures on the actual weekend. ooops.
Wednesday I played physics in my front yard
Thursday I went climbing with Aaron and he showed me how not to place protection.
ZIG ZAG I CAN'T PULL THE ROPE NO MO
Shockly's ceiling. The first guy to ever climb through this ceiling with mr shockly, the inventor of the transistor. Shock!
Bonus, there was a cam stuck in the ceiling that the previous climbers left, maybe it was dark, maybe it was a novice climber, but Aaron said it came right out so I got to keep it. ~$75
Here comes Aaron
Credibility Gap.
I got my protection in but didn't clip the rope yet. See it dangle. Clip it and climb out under that ceiling into thin air. Super cool climb.
Then, the rope got stuck.
STUCK
It must have jammed into a crack in the rock, I could pull maybe a foot at a time with all my might. I built an anchor and asked Aaron to tie himself into the rope in the middle. Normally you would tie in at the end, but I couldn't pull up 70m of rope like that, I'd die. So if he tied in half way I'd only have to pull up 30m of rope MAX until he got to the point where it was stuck. Aaron gets almost to me when the loose end of the rope gets stuck. WTF.
Some creative rope management and Aaron gets all my gear out of the rock, and then we get him back on the ground using the loose end of the rope and creative knots. He free's the rope, I rappel back down. Then we notice we are not set up perfectly to top rope on Welcome To the Gunks, an uber classic super hard climb. We both climb that, it was freakin awesome.
We're beautiful
Friday:
Chris RU came over and we tore apart this lawn tractor someone gave me. He needed the transmission.
Then,
Sourlands!
Then go work on those trees.
When I had gotten home from climbing, my neighbor had already cut up those trees into 18" logs for me and stacked them up and cleaned up the lawn. He was bored. lol
I took care of the tops of the trees.
Forgot to take more pictures
Then dinner with the Mirsky's and Bob and his parents
Saturday I rebuilt the circuit board on the igniter on my motorcycle. I learned that you can't jump start a motorcycle (or at least mine) off a car or batter charger on high start mode. It fried the igniter.
I replaced the 4 caps.
Now it fires perfect! But I still have one carb that's not firing at idle. UGH fucking CARPOTATOS.
Then I finished the trees completely and started addressing the god damn acorns on my lawn that are killing it.
Check this shit out.
I took SEVEN of those big tote containers full of just acorns off my lawn. What a holy pain in the balls that was. But my lawn was dying.
Then I ate my weight at sushi. I don't know who that lady on the left is but the black and white striped shirt suggests French.
Then I ate half a F'ing ice cream cake because THESE PEOPLE WERE LETTING IT MELT.
Sunday I went to Mitch's house and then over to HXPXMXPX or whatever it was and hung out with everyone.
Left there and went to my mom's for dinner.
I didnt' take enough pictures on the actual weekend. ooops.