I'm up to 4 bicycles now.
Sherpa semi mountain bike circa 1993 (front elastomer suspension only).
73' Motobecane Mirage- (salvaged from a community bike repair and recycle shop, first bike with a frame big enough for my "frame").
2008 Specialized mountain bike with full suspension and disc brakes
And the most recent a Trek Allant+ 8S electric assisit, also a huge frame that fits me great.
My wife has 3... then there is also a couple more- one of my Son's (70's Schwinn Continental) and an old REI Novara with an elliptical crank sprocket that was my brother's.
And now, for something completely different.
Kids are back in school, crowds and gone from the hills, the weather is great, so my wife and I decided to go visit our local easy to access glacier.
It's at the northern foot of 6160' Big Four mountain and only an hour's drive from home and a little over a mile of good trail.
I was there the first day the road was open and clear of snow back in late April, it's always interesting to me to see how it melts back based on weather patterns. This year it was a wilder shape than normal, a couple more week of hot days and it would have likely melted completely away... looks to me that it will survive and remain a glacier until the winter snows start building it back up for next year.
April 2024
Early September 2024
The main opening is at least 30' high.
No go zone!
We got to hear and see chunks fall off the upper "pagoda" looking bit, it caused quite a ruckus and plenty of crashing sounds as we further distanced ourselves from it.
People do get too close and there has been more than one fatality there when either a rock comes bounding down or people go inside and it collapses on them.
Plenty of signs warning of the danger, but some don't understand nature does not always play nice.
Even though we were only there about 45 minutes, tons of snow dropped off since it was a warm afternoon.
A good zoom lens is the best way to see it from a safe distance. Even then I'm constantly looking up and listening for rock fall they can bounce a long ways before running out of momentum.
