Rides 2016 — add yours here

[JimK]

We're having great fun exploring!

I think the most famous climb here is Little Cottonwood Canyon: http://www.cyclingutah.com/rides-and-trails/road-rides/little-cottonwood-canyon-challenge/

Farmington Canyon has the advantage of being close enough to our apartment that we can easily ride there from here!

[Andre Jute]

That road up Jim's mountain needs an elevator between switchbacks.

[in4]

This is the Diner I mentioned previously and visited a few years back. I'm a tad more 'conservative' in what I eat these days so parts of the menu I can easily omit but Ruth's  is definitely worth a visit.

http://ruthsdiner.com/

[Andre Jute]

Holy Guacamole, that's a catholic menu, a Founding Scroll in the Church of the High Chol.

Beautiful spot, shady among that relentless sunshine.

[JimK]

  Ruth's  is definitely worth a visit.

Thanks! I had done a bit of searching & was thinking that was probably the diner you had in mind. We could bike to Ruth's & back from here, but that'd already be a big day with nothing left for the climb up the canyon. So I have already suggested to my riding partner - let's take the bikes on the train & then do the climb. Ruth's should be the perfect reward at the end!

That full climb tops at about 7000 feet, a bit below our climb last weekend. Plus I think Emigration Canyon is paved the whole way! Farmington Canyon was loose bumpy dusty gravel almost the whole way, plus every sort of motorized vehicle passing us and raising the dust.

Ruth's, here we come!

[JimK]

beautiful weather here today so we grabbed the opportunity...

up Emigration Canyon: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14638744

album: http://s140.photobucket.com/user/kukulaj/library/Nomad/2016%2006%2025%20emigration%20canyon

at the Big Mountain pass:



at Ruth's:

[Danneaux]

Goodness, Jim -- literally! 

Sure glad you found the food!

So very much enjoying all your Utah ride pics.

All the best,

Dan.

[JimK]

My intent was just to poke around at the mouth of the canyon. But there was a cool tailwind... not all that cool, not very steady or strong, but it felt like, hmmm, it might be the best opportunity I'll get this summer! So I went to the top of the pass!

route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14924126

album: http://s140.photobucket.com/user/kukulaj/library/Nomad/north%20ogden%20canyon%202016%2007%2006

[JimK]

So now my big ride idea is: a big loop, head east though North Ogden Canyon, then south along the back side of this front range, then back through Emigration Canyon: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14925200  - yeah, it's going to take me a while to work up to that!

[Andre Jute]

But there was a cool tailwind...

May all your winds be tailwinds, and just the right temperature for the ride of that  day.

About your next post, and the longer ride you aspire to— here I am, planning a ride of a fraction under 40km as the peak of this year's cycling, and at that attended by my physician and a nurse*, and you're looking at 100m!  Go, Jim, go!

*It's just incidental that my most constant pedalpals are in the medical profession, but of course I don't explain that when at the bottom of the hill I introduce them to the younger cyclists we'll be passing on the way up the hill! So what keeps you so strong, grandpa? Age and treachery!

[JimK]

Rode out to Willard Bay today - got out early enough that I mostly beat the heat. Not a long or hilly ride, but grand fun exploring some wild territory!

the route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/15220098

album: http://s140.photobucket.com/user/kukulaj/library/Nomad/Willard%20Bay%202016%2007%2026

[geocycle]

Had a great week in Scotland. Rode across Arran, Islay, Jura then back to Kintyre, Great Glen and finish in Inverness.  Wonderful cycling. Highlights included 7 ferry journeys on boats of various dimensions.  One ferry involved bungeying the bike to the back of a rib! Here are some highlights,  No need to mention that the RST was flawless as usual.

[Andre Jute]

Beautiful photographs of beautiful waters. That second photograph of your Raven in the back of a small ferry is an adventure already; don't let your insurers see it!

[Matt2matt2002]

I've done Islay and Arran and Skye but never Jura.
May I ask details of that section?
Route, time there and accommodation etc.
Thanks
Matt

[geocycle]

Hi Matt, I didn't spend long on Jura, just an afternoon. I got the ferry from Islay and then headed up the east coast. Really good riding, lots of deer and standing stones. Did a there and back route before getting the ferry from Craighouse. It's not the most accessible island but I really liked it.