Where I've been

So this spring has been different than the last... say... 4 or 5 springs. I've only raced my bike twice. The last time that happened I was at PSU and dealing with a knee injury that sucked on the bike and made pretty much everything else just seem really boring and pointless.

Thankfully this spring there are no injuries. I just sort of lost the desire to get up at 6AM and go ride the same loop. Doesn't help that there really aren't that many good rides around here... certainly good weather, lots of company to go out and ride with, but I'm just so sick of riding up and down the same canyons and along the same coast. I apologize at this point for you unlucky bastards training back east... but at least you all have fun roads to ride on.

So instead of getting fat and entirely lazy, I've taken up hiking- which on the flip side to being boring here in SoCal is just amazing. There are a few enormous National Forests within an easy drive of OC/LA, and the Sierra Nevadas up North which I haven't even dreamed up all the trips that could take place there. Plus this hobby feeds some weird love affair I have with topographical maps. They are the shit. And when combined with GPS (in the absence of steep canyons) its just sublime.

So, in a nutshell, this is what I've been doing (should be an embedded google map here- if not, then stop looking at this in facebook and go here).

If you're zoomed all the way out, not all the points will be displayed, so you need to mess with it a bit...


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