Fat Boy Deluxe

80 degrees
when I tell that bitch please
get up off these n-u-tz
cause you gets none of these
at ease
-Snoop Dogg

It’s a beautiful day in the DC area and I’m in a damn good mood. It was over 80 degrees on the beltway around 2:00 PM. That’s the beauty of having a project that is ending soon…there’s not a whole lot that needs to be done other than transitional stuff. I’m home now, sitting outside with the Busterman, enjoying an adult beverage. Probably head out for a ride in about an hour, but waiting to see if the rain ever comes (hoping it doesn’t). After riding, I’ll be attending the WortHogs homebrew club meeting and entering my milk stout and imperial stout since this month’s competition is stouts.
Ended up getting a nice little ride in last night. I had a report of some rogue trails at the park I’m a liaison for MORE. Found them pretty easy…Tip #1: if you’re going to build illegal trails, don’t mark them with neon pink flagging tape. The trails themselves weren’t that bad. It wasn’t a lot of distance, but more of a spider network on top of a ridge. Tip #2: don’t leave your broken rake on the side of illegal trail. If whoever made it had stuck to a couple of paths instead of branching off every 30 feet, the trail would be a lot better. There’s also a section on a hillside that would make the perfect “how not to build trail” photo in the next IMBA book, ha. Props for trying to build some trail, but if you’re going to build on a 30 degree angle hillside and you’re not going straight down (which you don’t want to do anyway), you need to cut that trail into the side of the hill. Otherwise you get the 12 foot wide trail that just continually slides down the hill.

Anyway, I checked them out. Wish they had been built a little better, at least then I could talk to the park rangers to see about keeping them. Who knows, maybe if we let it sit under the radar long enough, whoever built them will make them better. Aight, gotta get the bike and beer stuff together.

DT