Knight Rider

Matt and I quit our jobs today so we could ride our bikes on Lookout Peak before the winter sets in.

Les Images dans la Galerie.
Et un poisson. Et, je ne sais quoi. Mais le poisson? Oui. C'est là.

(Without warning we were set upon by this horrid winged beast! Wretched Red Eyes of Satan! Huge pointy teeth! I tried to kill it with a stick, but it wouldn't die - just kept smiling and smiling! Creepy. Oooooooh booga booga booga.)


We rode the loop starting on top of Big Mountain, up the Seriously Steep Switchbacks, along the ridge and down to Affleck Park, then back up the Mormon Pioneer Trail to the car. It is a tough journey. Only very very impressive men should ever attempt it.


(Two broken chains. Or same chain broken twice due to first time shoddy repair job. Still though, it felt great to be out in the mountain air. Ah! Looking down into the smog. Ugh.)


Um, I'm trying to think of noteworthy things to mention here...

Let's see, some snow, lots of darkness, got pretty cold down toward Affleck, scared a moose. Really, despite the super adventure feel of the evening, things went quite smoothly. Had the one chain issue, but it was still daylight and warm then. Damn. When I started out to jot this down, I was pretty jazzed. Now I feel like nothing interesting happened. I didn't even get to use my weather-proof matches.


(I managed to capture perfectly in this self-portrait the sheer horror enveloping me during my unending ordeal. Every time I looked back, I sensed The Mothman approaching. I could almost hear it talking to me: "Dan, we have to turn left here," it seemed to be saying. And it wanted to borrow my phone.)


I'll remember this one for a long time. I was sorry Matt missed out on our two Moab trips, and I'd been feeling like we hadn't really done much riding together lately (although we did a bobsled run on Halloween night - that was fun), so I'm glad we got to cross this one off our list.


(Ultimately, this menacing creature wasn't so bad after all, it just wanted its picture taken. "I got a new haircut." Uh huh, whatever you say, Mothman.)

(Below we see Peter-Pan astride his steed. I'm Men-In-Tights! Tight Tights! I ride around the forest looking for fights! Etc.)