It's the Weekend: Full Range

First and foremost here, i need to give a big thanks to Greg of the Local Bikestand who was able to get my problem figured out and fixed - ASAP. Yes, I now have a full range of gears again. Ain't no mountain high enough!

 Anyway, taking a momentary break from whatever the daily atrocity committed by the buffoon's goon squad and lap dogs turns out to be, is sometimes needed. Riding... it helps you focus your thoughts which, in times likes these, can easily turn to ill will. 

Anyway, it seems like years since last i headed up the street to the semi-Wilderness Park (Claremont Hill Wilderness Park). Not only was it an amazingly beautiful day to turn the wheels up in that direction, but the parks hillsides and steeper pitches seemed like a perfect place to give that range of gears a good testing. And everything is so green up there right now, the grass is growing over some of the lesser used trails, such as the hike up to the promontory known as Dun Eire; something seemed wrong as i pushed up that hillside - one of the oaks crowning the top appeared to have died and fallen over. It wasn't until i went around to the backside of the rocky top, that i realized it was not the entire tree, but only a large branch (which was actually most of the tree) that had been become diseased and collapsed in a strong wind, leaving the tree a stunted fragment of its former self. The sky was clear and blue, so much so that you could see across the distances to the snowy peaks around Big Bear, and further out to the higher heights of San Gorgonio and San Jacinto. People were out walking and talking, some even had earbuds and and were staring at their phone while surrounded by all that scenery. Well, some folks just don't get it, or maybe their concept of "getting it" is different than mine. Oh well.

Anyway (no.3) it is the weekend, and a picture perfect one it is shaping up to be. Get out and enjoy it!

what is he showing in this pic, you may be wondering? well, a bike with its chain in the small ring once again, after who knows how long. whew, what a relief!

valley view

view to the east across Burbank Canyon. Cucamonga and Ontario Peaks at the left

view from Dun Eire

Dun Eire

Pieris rapae (Cabbage White Butterfly) i believe

that odd cistern-like depression at Johnson's Pasture

The Pines

view to the valley from Coyote Howl Point, in the Red Dirt region

view to the mountains from Coyote Howl Point, in the Red Dirt region

nearing the bottom of Cobal Canyon