The Tip

That old road is on the storage place's land. THEY don't have a problem with mountain bikers using their land. But, the theory is, one of those landowners to the south of that land DOES have a problem with it. Maybe it's because trash from parties washes down into their ponds. A guy that lives one parcel over, to the south, doesn't know who it is. HE likes the mountain bikers. He actually mows the 1826 single track because he likes to see us ride past. But there won't be any more discussions with the storage place folks. I'm sure they will eventually decide that it's not worth a feud with their neighbors over it and just tell us to stop. But I've given up on using it anyway. I now go past the storage place going up Slaughter Lane and turn left past the water tank. A little more climb but also a little more down hill zooming once on the 1826 single track.

"Rocky Madness" But don't stop at Abilene. Ride under Abilene (the trail drops into the creek bed) and continue to ride more challenging trail up to Escarpment. Turn left to go south on Escarpment's sidewalk. You only cross two side streets until you can get back on" ...the size of Abilene", to go under Escarpment and on to Drip Drop.

River? You mean Slaughter Creek? I've seen a few rides now that have done just about everything in Mary Moore. So I'm assuming that it's clear. At the least, clear enough.

Good. I hope you get a quick response. I tried to call about that and some other questions but there wasn't anyone to answer the phone because they were closed.

I rode up Rudolph on Tuesday afternoon. There were several big rocks purposely placed in the middle of the trail. I too was disappointed to see the continued activity.

I touched Jimi Hendrix's foot during a concert. I was 13 and went with my brother and his date. I was a kid so I didn't have a problem working my way to the edge of the short stage. It was so short that when he went to his knees to play there were only about 20 people that could see him. It was only about four feet tall. He was directly in front of me. I said to myself, "I'm going to touch his foot just to say I did." This was nine months after Woodstock and a few months before he died.

Just checked CAD. It's all city of Austin land right up to the houses property lines.

My wife and rode into that. It just peters out on the other side of the creek bed. So nothing to it that we could tell. VERY interesting rock creek bed though. Too bad it can't be used for much.

I'm pretty sure all of 45 is done. I have yet to see anyone mention House Fire or Bigger House Fire. They both go through a lot of cedar trees so I'm assuming there was damage on them. Koopa Troopa was passable after we went through. But yes, it could use a little cleaning up still.

But when you start to charge an entry fee it changes the dynamics of the event. "it just looked like a lot of people were out riding the trail." That's exactly what those events were. What could be done if 30 guys got together and said, "hey, let's go downhill the HOL on Saturday?"

Is this the same group that had a "race" at the Maxwell Slaughter Creek Trail?

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Look at Barry's heatmap of it above. Those are mountain biking heatmaps. So it gets lots of mtbers. There are some sort sections that I don't think anyone could ride, at least up, but it didn't diminish the experience too much. The campsite is very convenient to BLORA too. We didn't get a chance to check it out though.

Live Oak Ridge, an Army Corp facility. A very nice RV park. Nice bathrooms too. Our little RV doesn't have a shower so that's important to us. https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232626

I had cleared a section of trail in Dick Nichols on Tuesday. I went to the same trail today and it was a wreck. The Wednesday night ice event wreaked havoc.

I walked in Dick Nichols some. One of the trails I could barely even recognize because of all the trees and branches everywhere. Couldn't even walk past it at one point. It's going to take a lot of work to get the trails back in shape. But almost as bad as the tree damage is how muddy the trails are going to be. Muddy for a long time too. The slowly seeping melt is going to be perfect for making even hard packed trails, trails that usually shed the rain and dry out, stay muddy. I'm guessing eight more days, next Saturday, if we're lucky.

Knock wood really quickly! We were thinking that way last night so that is obviously the reason ours went this morning. lol

We saw this on the news. Our initial reaction was, "that's just wrong." But then we thought that the guy that knows how to turn them off would probably be taking his life in his hands to drive in to turn them off. So a dilemma. Our power just came back on after six hours off. Our water pressure is decreasing. Does it eventually totally stop, or just go real slowly? Does anyone have NO water at all coming out?

We use to do wood fires in the fireplace, but agree, no matter what you do the smoke comes out into the room. And then you have to clean it out. So we didn't use the fireplace for years until just recently with the purchase of the gas log thing. We have a heatilator too. It works well and helps justify running the gas log. We have a fire pit in the backyard that we use a lot to get our real fire fix.

Gas fireplaces come in two configurations: vented and ventless. Vented gas logs produce carbon monoxide emissions so your fireplace must have a chimney or flue. Ventless logs do not put off these emissions so no chimney or flue is needed, and the heat is more likely to stay in your space.

Does yours have the little pieces of fluff that glow like embers? It really makes the fire look real.

I just installed a new one so I know about this. They come with a device to permanently keep your flue open, as required by law, so guessing that's important. When the fire is on the glass doors HAVE to be open. Close them when not on to prevent air loss. They aren't designed for heat, so it won't throw a lot of heat, but it does help some sitting in front of it.

Genius! Gas fire place but not gas cook top? I don't understand these houses that have gas service but electric cooking appliances. Gas is so much better to cook with. My wife just got me to buy a gas log for our fireplace five days ago. Unbelievably good timing. We've been really enjoying it. It was also reassuring to have when our power went out for a few hours Friday morning. Knock wood we've been on since then.

It was actually raining for a few minutes last night. That didn't help the tree situation. But the snow is not going to be a problem. Too dry, too blowy for it to stick on trees I guess.

Of course they cannot. It's just that they will not be a partner in any projects right now.