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I'd posted this link on the last page for dbeasy. it's fairly useful. here's another. probably more descriptive, but the videos seem old and don't account for some reroutes. or maybe I'm just terrible at recognizing stuff. but neither one has Snail Trail on it, which is interesting, because it's been heavily Stravulated. a bit of an open secret. anyway, I usually start under 183A, hit Snail, then Dave's ditch (IFF it's been dry for a while), 1/4 notch and double-down. if I have the time, I'll do Deception 'backwards'. then Picnic, which has numerous optional drops. no matter what, I do Picnic. if the conditions are such Picnic's unridable, I just don't go to Brushy at all. for some reason, Deception just doesn't appeal to me, but once I'm on it, it's actually pretty fun. very rocky, moderately techy ups and downs, and lots of cactus to keep you on the straight and narrow. very hot in the summer, whereas Picnic is always comfortably shaded. Mulligan is fun, but there's a couple little soupy spots for several days after any rain, so I'll just run up the mellower climb on the left of the big slope facing the paved path, hang a right and bomb down the steep one closest to the train tracks, like today. as I mentioned to dbeasy, really only Mulligan and Peddler's Pass are one way (PP being very well marked in this regard). just depends on where you start. ie, you could certainly make the case that Deception flows generally west, but that's only because the skatepark lot is the most popular starting point. the route I roughly described above, with PP, is between 8-12 miles, depending on whether I do any Deception or extra Snail repeats. just pulled an old strava record up that's 9.48 mi and a whopping 359' of climbing, with zero Deception. I tend to do Brushy solo on saturday mornings. if you want a guide, sing out. it don't make a shit.

had a good ride at Brushy this morning. finally got good loft on both jumps up top on Snail2 (the plywood one and the big, angled one right after it). couldn't tell you how I did it. they usually throw my ass up for awkward, nose-heavy landings. craziest thing I saw today was a group of dudes on those Onewheel boards...riding trail. it was on the flattish, bermy section in the woods just east of Parmer. conditions were perfect for that today. K, you got me thinking about Spider tomorrow, but I think I'll just go South, and save the fiddy bucks. it looked like they reworked a section or two of the wood feature line, taking out a couple small ledge drops. but there's something to be said for riding a lift to get back uphill, esp toward the end of the day.

you should tell her they probably meant, 'take a chance on the applicant not being as big a pain in the ass as you-know-who.'

right on, man. I keep thinking I need to get back there and solve the table tops. can't just be speed. I get no pop. more cases than a Samsonite store. did I post this one? can't remember.

not exactly the same as Red, but, these guys are good.

Gil Bang, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Gil Bang. From California.

man, I wore this video out.

my wife left her purse at the DQ on 37 in Pleasanton on the way back from Corpus, once. I didn't even have to raise an eyebrow. she drove her own ass back down there to get it. but this isn't the humblebrag thread. I'll show myself out.

one kid? not that it matters a lot, I'd still recommend ski school. as mentioned by others, diy ski school is a beating for everyone. I dropped my kids in ski school and everyone had more fun. then there's the parents dealing with their non-skiing kids in the middle of the trail that everyone else gets to deal with, too. anyway, I've been to RR several times (friends of my wife got married there, and they go back every year, so we joined the party off and on). I've only mountainbiked AF, so I can't really compare them for you outside of the stats available online for each, as far as skiing. for my skill level (blues and low-end blacks), RR is fine. not that it matters much this year, but RR has the most snowmaking capacity in the area. last time I went was 2 years ago, and it was packed with folks from AF and beyond because there was no snow except at RR, and very few runs open. fucking sucked. my daughter got taken out by some other kid thought he was Shaunfuckingwhite. I will say the town of RR has a lot more options for food and whatnot (although the grocery store in AF is bigger). it's also a lot more walkable than AF. RR recs: ---Copper King Lodge. not fancy, but clean and right at the bottom of the copper chair (double to mid and the top---NOT rec'd for getting to the school). nice hot tub, very cool play area for kids (bring deer corn). walkable to several restaurants ---Bull o' the Woods. fun bar with bar food, TVs. good beer selection. good wings and pizza, a block from CK ---Texas Red's. good steak place, across the street from botw ---Sundance. good new mexican food ---Dairy Bar. throwback burger and icecream joint. good wings. kid favorite. Capo's Italian is pretty meh. food's ok, but the service really sucks AF recs: really just El Jefe and Angel Fired Pizza for dinner. both were good. Angel Fire Bakery & Cafe had a good breakfast, but again, everything is spread out all over in AF, which was ok on dry ground with mtbs, I guess. dunno about winter conditions. no recs on where to stay in AF. we got to crash for free at a friend's condo. nice place, but can't speak to the value, per se.

ok, Madge

this. and take a few with you. but a gig better than lawyering? if posting on surly all day every day while printing money is a bad gig, sign me up.

exactly. scrumptet runs around, drinking beer, wearing a blouse (if that's what we're calling it) designed to look like a bunch of renegade sperm cells on acid. 'a lady'? whatever you say, man.

hear hear. lotsa words. 2019pics, but my dad is now officially hooked on the fly. Pulaski, again. couple kings, my dad with a nice coho. and a big brown, which made up for not getting any steelhead, this time. Galvan T8 is a sweet reel.

took the kids last year, President's Weekend. girls about the same age at the time as yours. vrbo just a few blocks from Sunset Cliffs. really liked the neighborhood. Sundara (indian) a few blocks away was really good as a 'date night' while the kids had pasta we made for them, back at the house. didn't do the zoo, but Balboa Park has some other cool stuff. In particular, the girls really liked the model train museum. parking is a beating, so I recommend getting an early start. we made two trips to La Jolla so the kids could watch the seals and pelicans grabass around on Seal Rock and The Cove. the town is total clusterfuck on the weekend, but there is a public parking garage. if you can get a table on the roof, George's is pretty good. the ocean view is great there. saw some whales breaching, now and then. +1 on the tide pools at Cabrillo, and that whole park. breakfast at Mitch's Seafood is awesome. we hit it right after we landed (I knew about it from some tuna trips, years before). I assume the actual seafood is of the same quality. bring a jacket.

well, this is turning out as I should have expected

his answer is to just build more houses? that's it? how creative. so tell us, Chip, what does Bill Milburn's dick taste like?

you serious?

it's Tom Hanks! and Meg Ryan!

well, I'll never be a welding nerd, but I am seriously jealous of those welds, Marfa. I've got a cut-off tank end I've been thinking about making into a firebowl, also. I'm self/youtube-taught, plus some good advice from friends. first project was a welding table (been posted, before). that was lead up to my narrow-ass smoker build. very much a go-with-the-flow project, but not too much wasted metal (forgot to account for the halfmoon above the firebox and didn't want janky seam). was kinda brutal, welding the firebox from the inside, inches from my face. turned out pretty decent, I thought. a broken off rake handle only gets you so far "you may experience a little discomfort" "tension. tension. tension it's all that I know" first effort with my second-hand (Smith) torch second effort, for the top of the stack. I was smart enough to allow for grinding to pretty it up, at least. I can see why circle cutters are so expensive some guy ordered a shitload of various elbows at Westbrook, then cancelled. worked out great for me, not having to calculate, cut and weld the smoke stack turn. besides some briskets, a bigass turkey with a duck and a chicken on Thanksgiving, I've smoked a bunch of fish on it. so far, so good. not pretty, but it does the job.

**deer guts greener'n owl shit

just got back from Whistler. crowded, but had a great time. still need some snow, last I checked. my wife made all the res's (that's her thing, I just get veto power). she got some deal online through skirentals.com or somesuch that sent us to the Salomon shop for our rentals. very good service there, although if I had to do it again, I'd ask for a stiffer snowboard boot which I'm used to, over the flexy thing they gave me by default. eats: The Keg was pretty good. Earl's was waaaay overrated. unless you like trendy shit served by Eurotrash-wannabes at all costs. Gnarly Root was very good. the indian place upstairs right by the Whistler Gondola was very good. Masala something or other. we got takeout. Blacks Pub was meh. did not eat on the mountain. just energy bars. big food just makes me too lethargic for snowboarding. the food looked pretty good, though. much much better than the burgers and dogs up top at Ski Apache or Red River. we spent one night at the Westin downtown Vancouver on the back end (wife had points). it's a block off the Whistler Connect shuttle route, so we had them drop us at the nearest stop on the way back. very good location. lots of shopping and ethnic food options nearby that looked good, but we ended up at Dunn's deli. had smoked meat poutine. it was ok. they don't smoke meat like we do, I guess. I think they used pine or someshit. Lennox Pub was a good place to chill while the kids dove into their ipads back at the room. canNOT recommend the Vancouver Art museum. but my daughter's into art so we had to find out. biggest one in western Canada, fwiw. Bentonville fucking Arkansas's art museum blows it away, easily. have fun, you hoser.

corrections to previous post: "generally are not", and "becomes". blind and fat-thumbed is no way to go through life, son.

you mean at Brushy? for the most part, there isn't one. depends on where you start (I usually start under 183A for the shade and proximity to Snail), but that doesn't matter if you ride the same trails on your return trip. only the flattish area in the woods just the other side of Parmer is truly one way, and it is marked as such. personally, I suck at reading these maps, but see if this helps.