Cool Summer Nite!

After a couple days of consisent rain in the Phoenix area, I was super stoked to finally get our for a ride. I was hoping for tacky trails, but the sandy south mountain trails sucked all the moisture up like a sponge. As least it wasn’t dusty. We started after 9 at the 46th parking lot. After a while of sorting out the bikes and the lights we were finally on trail. Headed east on the east loops we noticed that the cloud cover combined with the city lights it created a crazy orange glow on the trail. Most of the ride we didn’t have to turn the lights on as the trail was well lit. We looped around under the power lines to the pima fireroad. Andy took a good little trip over the bars on the ridgeline, something about a rock monster grabbing his front tire. I noticed my shoe was fitting funny, looked down and I blew out the whole sole of my right shoe. At least I could still clip in:) Up towards the start of mormon, the sky was still glowing and the trails were wide open. I thought that I could grunt up a part of mormon that always gives me trouble and it did again, bammmm, right to the ground. Andy and I were even in crashes. We cranked our way up mormon, to the y and continued up national to the saddle. Stopped and grabbed a little 11pm snack, armoured up and headed down. It always feels faster going down that trail at night. We were rallying and shredding down natty, down mormon and on to the javelina hike. Hiked up to the top of javelina and took one last look at the city lights. Just as we were dropping in it started to drizzle. It was so nice getting smacked in the face with the rain drops while ripping down the trail. We hammered most of it until I felt my tires get a little more grippy than usualy, you know what that means…FLAT! No biggie as I had a new tube and a headlamp and made quick order of the snakebite and we were on the trail. Finished the main down of Javelina, up the short hike a bike. Shredded down the down, stopped to watch Andy make it descent, about a third of the way down, the rock monster grabbed his front again and brought him down. Wish I had the camera rolling for that:) He got up, dusted himself off and to the car we went. Loaded up and went home. I threw all my stinkys into the wash and grabbed a bowl of recovery mint chip ice cream and enjoyed the night rain before bed. Another great night, 9+ miles, a few crashes, a blown out shoe, a snakebitten tube and a millipede. Can’t wait for next time!