Spring ride: mudflats

[Patrick Moore]

The River has dried up once or twice in the past few years, tho’ this usually doesn’t happen until July or August; here it is almost dry, and forecast to jettison the “almost” very shortly, at the end of May. We’ have little mountain snowpack during the last 4 or 5 years, tho’ the River did flood in, I think, 2019 or so. Weather persons are hoping for a good monsoon, though.

I rode the Matthews “road bike for dirt” along the groomed grail paralleling the paved trail parallel to the River, and followed the non-groomed portion for a couple of miles more before turning around. I swapped the 44/28 x 14-15-16-17-18-19-20-22-24-28 for a 42/24 X 13-14-15-16-17-18-19-21-23-28 and this is much better, for the higher high and considerably lower low without sacrificing close cruising range gaps.

And in other news I scored a very cheap pair of original edition Compass 622x44 Snoqualmie Pass extralights, little used, for $80 shipped, and hope soon to try them with light butyl or TPU tubes on the other Blunt SS wheelset.

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

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[George Schick]

Patrick - according to the US Drought Monitor https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ as well as other sources around the Web, things are not looking very positive for good crop production - especially the Winter wheat this year in the great plains states - due to an on-going drought.  Further, as you say there was very little snow pack in the Rockies this Winter, therefore rivers will be low - especially the Colorado River that feeds Southern California. Worse yet, war in the Ukraine for over a decade now has limited the wheat planting there as well.  Fasten your seat belt.  According to some sources we could be in for world wide famine over the next few+ years.