Day: July 15, 2022

Today I’m posting pictures of a recent trip into the Beartooth. https://ridewithgps.com/trips/52011470. I think the pass is Daisy and that evening after adventuring all day we did an after dinner spin on our bikes. After dinner spin is funny because what happened was we biked all the way at the top of Daisy pass. So I have two photos for that and posted them in my 2020 album https://photos.app.goo.gl/NbvTXTi6a8uSdu7x6.

Reflecting on this day, July 15th – https://williammartin.com/0000/07/15/

• 2003 I was getting caught up from a trip to Alaska.
• 2004 I was self reflecting after watching an emotional movie.
• 2005 I was working for adventure cycling and taking pictures of one of their cycle Montana events.
• 2006 I am contemplating a race and catching up with my friends
• 2008. I learned that trails are being shut down in Montana.
• 2009 I was tapering and catching up with friends 2010. I was riding a lot and in
• 2012. I was running into private property and then in
• 2016 I was on day three of a Hilgard Basin trip with my Love Mo.

I think we all run into private property. There is always something else more interesting somewhere else so just go with the flow.  Right?

I just put down a breakfast sandwich. Turkey bacon and egg on toasted gluten-free. A cup of Mate should complete the morning refuel session. It’s time to pull the Turner off the rack and get it ready for a 4 hour excursion tonight. The plan for me is to do 4 more hill efforts at 15 minutes a piece. I am hoping to go off the front of the TNR to do “my thing” and then lift back to recover and enjoy my favorite social scene.

Yesterday was a triple workout day courtesy of Lynda’s sadistic plan. It is kind of challenging to go out at lunch and put in two climbs up Pattee Canyon and then recover for another climb after work.

It all turned out pretty well as I found no fade or fatigue from earlier in the day. After a little spin around the South Hills, I went home for a pain lab session to strengthen the Ol core. It is all core baby…o/o

Tonight is the Missoula Thursday Night Ride out at Snow Bowl. There is a lot planned. Extra excursions, seed spitting, and a BBQ duel with the “other” group. Who is in?

Yesterday I could finally reconnect with long-time friend Paul Bardis and we went on a mountain bike ride on the

Read the Forest Supervisor’s attached decision to believe the amazing “logic” justifying the bike ban.  Paraphrasing, “I won’t allow bicycling because I don’t think anyone is riding there now.”  Did they ask anyone?  How about the only bicycle club within 100 miles?

Want to get an idea what biking in some of these areas was like?  Join us Saturday, July 12, 7:00 am, Gt Falls Marketplace McDonalds.  We’ll caravan to Rogers Pass and ride north toward the closed areas (but not into them) and enjoy the view of this proposed wilderness.  Sorry, you can look but you can’t touch, you evil “mechanized use” bicyclist. If MWA has their way, we will be kicked off of this segment and all of the Continental Divide Trail soon as well.  Better come see it while you can.

Just hope that the horsemen that MWA are in bed with on this issue haven’t roto-tilled the trail recently.  The surface was perfect last month.  Most horsemen I know are okay with sharing the trails with cyclists as long as the cyclist knows what to do.  If you encounter a horseman on a trail, take the following steps.  Start talking as soon as you see the horses so the animals know you are human and not to be feared.  Dismount and move well off the trail on the low side, allowing the horse to pass.  Enjoy the encounter like the guys in the attached Lionhead area photo near Bozeman.  Oh yeah, bikes are about to be kicked out of there.

Here’s my proposed solution to the growing MTB access problem.  A LOT OF WILDERNESSES may soon be added to the system throughout the US.  Tell your Senators and Reps to fight the wilderness bill unless a provision is added to further define “mechanized use” in ALL wilderness areas as specifically NOT including bicycles.  Bicycling in Wilderness wasn’t envisioned when the original bill was written. 

MWA is likely howling with laughter at that idea, but hey, we are a growing bunch of energetic trail users with increasingly good political connections and they are a shrinking group of well connected yet overly dogmatic trail users.  Let’s take em’ on in Congress.

Hello all from Break where I am sipping some coffee and eating a lemon cream scone. I would like to shout out to my friend Pablo, welcome back man! And also kcooper, I hope you get the car back on the road and onward to your destination (if you know kcooper, you know where she is going).

This weekend I will photograph the Cycle Montana leg from Missoula to Darby. Adventure Cycling‘s Greg Siple got a-hold of me yesterday and asked if I would like to try a day of photography for the Cycle Montana event. Even though I cannot during the weekdays because of my job, I agreed to spend Sunday shooting the leg that runs from Missoula to Darby. This weekend I will photograph the Cycle Montana leg from Missoula to Darby. Adventure Cycling‘s Greg Siple got a-hold of me yesterday and asked if I would like to try a day of photography for the Cycle Montana event. Even though I cannot during the weekdays because of my job, I agreed to spend Sunday shooting the leg that runs from Missoula to Darby.

It should be a full day and I expect to take an astonishing amount of shots hoping to get the special few that transfer the cycling oracle to the masses. I get excited to go on a bike adventure and maybe I can capture a piece of that excitement.

If I can’t, well there is Saturday in which I hope to do a ride of my own. If anyone is interested, give me a ring.

I just got done with a movie. I thought when I visited a familiar feeling. Sadness! I ask myself why after every movie I watch do I feel sadness. I mean sadness into the core of my being. I feel loss. I grieve, but I don’t know why. I just had an idea. I sat and feel and try to sort this out. I love movies because I get lost in them. They are make believe; I know. Movies let me feel the things I have never allowed myself to feel. I get caught up in the movie and fall in love, I care, and I feel compassion. Great compassion. When it is over I grieve. I never feel those things in life. I won’t let them, and I wonder why. People who know me must wonder if I fell in love or really care in sympathetic interests towards the people that are associated with me.

But wait. I do in life fall in love and care. But now I look back and reflect. I have always sabotaged those relationships. Unconsciously, I always let them go. I never have told those people how I feel about them only those That I find I can manipulate do I think I feel and I report to them I care and or love. Does this make me a vulgar person? Only if I cannot reverse this and start living!