on 5-8-11 it was rather windy, but I opted for a bike ride anyway. I went through Flagstaff to the SE side and then went down a dirt forest service road to Walnut Canyon. That took about an hour. Then I hiked around the island loop trail there and took some pics. There sure were a lot of little cliff dwellings in that area.
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| Walnut Canyon overlook |
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| there were little walls and rooms all over the place |
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| Walnut Canyon dwellings |
On the way back I cut down a chunk of the Arizona Trail on the N rim of Walnut Canyon to Fisher Point, then down to the base of the Fisher Point where I had biked from the other side a number of times in years past and then back to Flagstaff.
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| View from Fisher Point (trail ends up in meadow below) |
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| Trail Junction below Fisher Point |
There was one section that looked like a bunch of salvage logging after a fire near the end and a number of other areas where there had been some serious forest thinning. The front suspension helped a lot on the washboard and rocky sections, but I took one little canyon near the end too fast and really slammed my back wheel into a rock. This dented in the rim a bit. Luckily I didn't get a flat, but the tire was so far out of true that I had to unfasten the back brakes. Once I hit the pavement I could feel the dip in the rim with every revolution. :( I guess that is my project for tomorrow. I don't know how far I went in total, maybe 25 miles or so with more than half of that on dirt road or trail.
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