Y’all aint from ’round here, are ya?

How can you NOT get a cowboy hat when you go through Spence’s Bridge? That place is rad.

So several hours of driving on the agenda today. We’re off to Tyax for some higher elevation adventure. Some more roadside wildlife in the Bridge Canyon for you….

I took today off for exhaustion reasons (something about riding 120 days makes me sleepy sometimes), but our local guide Martin took the gang out for a “short” local ride.

By short, I mean about 4 hours. The longest rides around here take weeks.

I’m kind of bummed I missed out on this one, as it looks really fun.

Then again, I can just go back there again.

Terrible views.

Martin figures that he’s going to make the sunset version of this ride the standard intro to the area. Riding this stuff at the end of the day adds another dimension.

No, that’s not snow.

It’s salts from an evaporation pan. We’re still on the dry side of the Coast Range up here.

Some more sunset action down around Mowson Pond.

Pics in no articular order, as everyone’s camera is on a different internal clock, and I didn’t do the trail so I don’t know where they were taken. You’ll just have to take them at face value.

We had a little camp out tonight. Still not exactly “roughing” it, but it was a bit more authentic with the outdoor kitchen and a campfire. Richard got pretty excited when he saw the axe.

Not as much as Graham though. Got wood?