July is freaking hot but ..,

there are still a lot of trails to ride. Even in Arizona. Believe it or not, Arizona is good year round. No lie. 

Place	HEBER	AZ	85928
Coordinates	Longitude: 110.5686	Latitude: 34.4163
Today's Forcast	High 81 fahranheit	27 Celcius
	Low 53 f	12 c
May 25, 2010 10:13	Wind S	at 4 MPH	Pressure 30.10

6 Day Forcast

Day	Sunday, July 04, 2010	Monday, July 05, 2010	Tuesday, July 06, 2010	Wednesday, July 07, 2010	Thursday, July 08, 2010	Friday, July 09, 2010
Forcast High Fahrenheit	81	82	83	83	83	83
Forcast Low Fahrenheit	53	54	55	56	58	60
Forcast High Celcius	27	28	28	28	28	28
Forcast Low Celcius	12	12	13	13	14	16
Conditions	Partly Cloudy	Thunder Storms	Partly Cloudy	Light Rain	Partly Cloudy	N/A

July trails.

Trail	Area	State	Effort	skill	Primo
Verde Hot Springs	Camp Verde	Arizona	Long Ride	Advanced
Pinery Canyon Loop	Chiracahua	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Silver Peak Loop	Chiracahua	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
WhiteTail Creek	Chiracahua	Arizona	Tough	intermediate
Mingus Mountain	Cottonwood - Jerome	Arizona	All Downhill	XX Expert
Around the Peaks (cosmic soulstice race loop)	Flagstaff	Arizona	Fairly Tough	Beginner
AZ trail to Walnut Canyon	Flagstaff	Arizona	Hard Ride	advanced
Dry lake hills loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Hard Work	Expert
Elden Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Biblical	Expert
Fisher Point	Flagstaff	Arizona	Comfortable	Beginner
Lava Cave and Wing Mtn	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy	Intermediate
Little Bear Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Serious Climb	Advanced
Lower Oldham trails	Flagstaff	Arizona	No Sweat	Beginner
Nordic Center	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy to Medium	Beginner
Observatory Mesa	Flagstaff	Arizona	Weenie ride	Beginner
Rocky Ridge Trail	Flagstaff	Arizona	Hard fun work	Expert
Soldiers Trail Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Sunset Trail Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Long Climb	Expert
Upper Oldham trails	Flagstaff	Arizona	Heinous climb	Expert
Waterline Road	Flagstaff	Arizona	Long Climb	Advanced
Flag to Grand Canyon	Flagstaff - Grand Canyon	Arizona	Long Easy Ride	Beginner
Flagstaff to Sedona	Flagstaff - Sedona	Arizona	long ride	Advanced
Six Shooter Canyon	Globe	Arizona	no whiners	XX Expert
Crazy Jug Point	Grand Canyon	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Pt. Sublime	Grand Canyon	Arizona	Very Long Ride	Beginner
Rainbow Rim	Grand Canyon	Arizona	hard work	Beginner
Tiyo Point	Grand Canyon	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Arizona Trail	Jacob Lake to Patagonia	Arizona	Long ride	Expert
Valley Drive	Monument Valley	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Patagonia Ghost towns loop	Patagonia	Arizona	long ride	Novice
260 loop - HiLine Trail	Payson	Arizona	tough	Advanced
Cypress Thicket	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Doll Baby Ranch	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
El Oso rd	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Houston Mesa	Payson	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Little Pine Flat	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
mt peely road	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Rock Creek	Payson	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Slate Creek Divide	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Willow Springs Lake	Payson - Heber	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Strawberry Mtn	Payson - Pine	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Papago Park	Phoenix	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
four peaks	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Granite Basin Loops	Prescott	Arizona	easy to difficult	Advanced
Lynx Lake Loop	Prescott	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Peavine trail	Prescott	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Spruce Mtn	Prescott	Arizona	what goes up	Advanced
Thumb Butte Loops	Prescott	Arizona	nothing too tough	All levels
White Rock loop trails	Prescott	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Wolf Creek Loop	Prescott	Arizona	Fairly Easy	Beginner
Yankee Doodle trail	Prescott	Arizona	Tough	Advanced
Cunningham and Grant Hill Loops	Safford - Mt. Graham	Arizona	High Altitude work	Intermediate
Butterfly Trail	Tucson	Arizona	hard work	Expert
Crystal Spring Trail	Tucson	Arizona	fairly hard	Advanced
Samaniego Ridge	Tucson	Arizona	Long Hard Ride	Advanced
Kentucky Camp Ghost Town	Tucson - Sonoita	Arizona	High Altitude work	Advanced
Blue Ridge Trail #107	White Mtns	Arizona	Advanced	Advanced
Country Club Trail #632	White Mtns	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Country Club/Los Burros Connector Trail #631A	White Mtns	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Hannigan Meadow	White Mtns	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Ice Cave Trail #608 ( Blue Ridge Cave Trail)	White Mtns	Arizona	moderate	advanced
Panorama Trail #635 ( Porter Mountain Trail)	White Mtns	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
South Fork Trail	White Mtns	Arizona	Tough	Advanced
Sunrise ski resort	White Mtns	Arizona		NULL
Timber Mesa Trail #636	White Mtns	Arizona	moderate	Advanced
Luna Lake Upper Loop	White Mtns - Alpine	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Terry Flat Loop	White Mtns - Alpine	Arizona	Moderate	Beginner
Los Burros loop 631	White Mtns - Show Low	Arizona	not too tough	intermdiate
Bill Williams Mountain	Williams	Arizona	Not too tough	Intermediate
Sucamore Rim Loop	Williams	Arizona	not for wimps	Intermediate
Lower Rock Creek Trail	Bishop	California	Moderate	Advanced
Florida Canyon	San Diego	California	Easy	Beginner
Miners Ridge Trail	San Diego	California	Good Workout	Intermediate
Sun Devil way	San Diego	California	good workout	all levels
Anderson truck trail	San Diego - Alpine	California	Tough	Expert
Munro trail	Lanai	Hawaii	tough	intermediate
Secret Trails	Maui	Hawaii	moderate	Intermediate
Mt Haleakala	Maui - Kula Forrest preserve	Hawaii	Tough	Expert
Aiea Loop	Oahu	Hawaii	Moderate	Intermediate
Kaaawa Valley	Oahu	Hawaii	Moderate	Beginner
Maunawili Trail	Oahu	Hawaii	moderate	advanced
Canfield mtn	Coeur d alene	Idaho	Fairly Easy	Intermediate
Silver Mountain - Jack Ass	Kellogg	Idaho	downhill	expert
Fischer Creek Trail	Stanley	Idaho	Fairly Tough	Intermediate
Bad Tom / Cranky Gulch	Wallace	Idaho	?	?
Route of Hiawatha - Lookout pass ski resort	Wallace	Idaho	moderate	Beginner
Upper Glidden Lake	Wallace	Idaho	?	?
B & A trail	Baltimore - Annapolis	MD	Easy	Beginner
Lake Tahoe Rim Trail - Flume trail section	Lake Tahoe	Nevada	tough	Advanced
Windsor Trail;	Sante Fe	New Mexico
Amole Canyon	Taos	New Mexico	Easy	Beginner
Thun trail	Birdsboro - Pottstown	Penns	Easy	Beginner
French Creek st park	Philidelphia - Reading	Penns	moderate	Intermediate
Marsh Creek St park	Philidelphia -Exton	Penns	Tough	Intermediate
Springton Manor Farms	Philidelphia -W Chester	Penns	Easy	Beginner
Mickelson Trail	Deadwood	SDakota	Long ride	Beginner
Lambert park	Alpine	Utah	moderate	all levels
Thunder mtn	Bryce Canyon	Utah	moderate	advanced
Porcupine Rim	Moab	Utah	Tough	Advanced
Slickrock trail	Moab	Utah	difficult	Expert
BST - Bonneville Shoreline Trail	Salt Lake City	Utah	Tough	Intermediate
Gooseberry Mesa	Zion	Utah	Moderat	Intermediate
Galbraith Mtn	Bellingham	Washington	all levels	All levels
Greenline #6	Olympia	Washington	Tough	Expert
Cranberry Lake	Seattle - Anacortes	Washington	moderate	Intermediate
Whistle Lake	Seattle - Anacortes	Washington	Difficult	Expert
Japanese Gulch	Seattle - Mukilteo	Washington	moderate	Intermediate

... gonna eat a lot of peaches.

Years ago when I ate my first fresh peach from the tree, I vowed to never eat canned peaches again. I now recant.

I have two peach trees in my backyard. One bears fruit this month, the other next month.

My mother-in-law is a bit like my father in that she will go into the yard and bring in natures bounty. My dad was here picking up pecans.  Peaches are different. No shelf life. After giving away three bags of peaches and tossing a bag of moldy peaches,I had to figure out something to do with them. No room in the freezer. Then I recalled my Aunt and Grandma home canning.

My sister-in-law has parents who do canning and such, so I gave her a call. "Where do I get Ball jars?" I asked. "Try Wallmart." she replied. It's a big store, surely they would have everything I needed. Nope. "Ball jars? What's that?" was the typical response. "Mason jars . . . for canning peaches..." I would reply. "We sell jars of peaches." was a response.

This is getting me nowhere I thought. What the heck, I'll go to ACE hardware. THOSE people ARE helpful and smart. If they don't have what I need, they will tell me where I can find it.  Within two minutes of entering that little store, I had two associates helping me AND educating me. They even gave me the Ball booklet on canning.

After two days of cutting fruit, making jam and canning fresh fruit I am psyched. Now, I am thinking of making fig jam, canning my grapefruit juice, orange juice, apple sauce, plum jam, kumquat marmalade, grapefruit marmalade, orange marmalade, lemon juice, lime juice all from the yard! Talk about organic! My bug control is my chickens! Too bad summer is almost here, I would like to can tomatoes and beans from the garden. Maybe pickles too.

Then there was the taste! Wow! Warmed peaches on ice cream. Tangy, sweet, wonderful. Never tasted peaches this good that were immersed in corn syrup. (bad for ya too).

Anyway, this story dovetails nicely with my last post. Just had to share.

February trails

Just a list of trails that are in their prime for the month

Feb trails. From my wish list.

Trail	Area	State	Effort	skill	Primo
Thumper Trail Loop (dead horse park)	Cottonwood	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Soldiers Trail Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Greene Haven Slickrock	Greene Haven	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Arizona Trail	Jacob Lake to Patagonia	Arizona	Long ride	Expert
Badger Trail	Kingman	Arizona	difficult	Advanced
Camp Beale Loop	Kingman	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Moss Wash Mines	Kingman	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Slaughterhouse Canyon	Kingman	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Valley Drive	Monument Valley	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Page rimview trail	Page	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Patagonia Ghost towns loop	Patagonia	Arizona	long ride	Novice
Cypress Thicket	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Doll Baby Ranch	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
El Oso rd	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Houston Mesa	Payson	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Little Pine Flat	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
mt peely road	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Slate Creek Divide	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Alta trail - Soutn Mountain	Phoenix	Arizona	Tough	Expert
Black Canyon Trail System	Phoenix	Arizona	Long ride	Advanced
Bulldog Canyon - Goldfield mtns	Phoenix	Arizona	moderate	intermediate
Coast to Coast - South Mountain	Phoenix	Arizona	Very Tough	xxx expert
DESERT CLASSIC - South Mountain	Phoenix	Arizona	Moderate	Advanced
Double Bypass - McDowell mtn preserve	Phoenix	Arizona	tough	Advanced
FINS (Fantasy Island North Singletrack)	Phoenix	Arizona	Moderate	Advanced
Helipad tt	Phoenix	Arizona	tough	climb
National Trail - south mountain	Phoenix	Arizona	severe	Expert
Papago Park	Phoenix	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Phoenix Canals	Phoenix	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Phoenix Mtns Secret Trails	Phoenix	Arizona	All	All
Phoenix mtns trail 100	Phoenix	Arizona	very hard work	expert
Phoenix Mtns Trail 1A	Phoenix	Arizona	Tough	Expert
Phoenix mtns trail 8	Phoenix	Arizona	moderate	Advanced
Ridgeline Loops - South Mountain	Phoenix	Arizona	tough	Expert
Apache Trail	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Lost Duchman trail loops	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Lost Goldmine Trail	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	Moderate	Advanced
Queen Creek	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Silly Mtn	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
White Canyon	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	Tough	Intermediate
Woodbury Rd	Phoenix - Apache Jct	Arizona	Tough	Intermediate
Devils Hole	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
hombolt mtn	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	difficult	Intermediate
new River Headwaters	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
New River Mesa	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	easy	Beginner
New River West	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	moderate	advanced
Sheep Bridge	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Trail 4 - cave creek trail - Seven Springs	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	Difficult	Expert
Casa Grande Mtn	Phoenix - Casa Grande	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Area 52	Phoenix - Florence	Arizona	tough	Advanced
Thunderbird park h1 - h5	Phoenix - Glendale	Arizona	easy	intermediate
Estrella Mtn Park (race loops)	Phoenix - Goodyear	Arizona	Good Workout	Advanced
Margies Cove	Phoenix - Goodyear	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Blevins Loop - Usery park	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Cottonwood Camp	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
four peaks	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Hawes rd - red mountain	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	tough	advanced
Moon Rock Loop - Usery park	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Usery Pass	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	No Sweat	Advanced
White Tank Mountains Goat Camp Loop	Phoenix - Peoria	Arizona	Tough	Expert
White Tank Mountains Sonoran Loop	Phoenix - Peoria	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
San Tan Loops	Phoenix - Queen Creek	Arizona	moderate	Beginner
Cave Creek	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	Heap O work	Advanced
Dynamite and Pima	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	Not too tough	Intermediate
McDowell mts Pemberton Trail	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	moderate	Beginner
McDowell mts Race Loops	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	race pace	Advanced
Sonoran Mtn Preserve	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	Tough	Intermediate
Toms Thumb	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	Tough	Advanced
Union Hills Loop	Phoenix - Scottsdale	Arizona	Long Ride	Beginner
Granite Basin Loops	Prescott	Arizona	easy to difficult	Advanced
Thumb Butte Loops	Prescott	Arizona	nothing too tough	All levels
White Rock loop trails	Prescott	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Yankee Doodle trail	Prescott	Arizona	Tough	Advanced
Airport Mesa Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Pretty tough	XXX Expert
Bell Rock Loops	Sedona	Arizona	fairly easy	Beginner
Boyton Pass	Sedona	Arizona	Long easy roll	Beginner
Cathederal Rock Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Moderate	Advanced
CocksCOMB LOOP	Sedona	Arizona	medium work	Beginner
Deadmans Pass Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Dry Creek	Sedona	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Huckaby Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Hard	Expert
Llama Trail Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Hard	Expert
Robbers Roost	Sedona	Arizona	easy as pie	Beginner
schnebly hill trails	Sedona	Arizona	a good sweat	Intermediate
Secret Trails	Sedona	Arizona	tough	Advanced
Submarine Rock Loop	Sedona	Arizona	hard work	Expert
Brown Canyon Loop	Sierra Vista	Arizona	moderate	Beginner
Carr Canyon Loop	Sierra Vista	Arizona	Fairly tough	Advanced
50 Year trail (the chutes)	Tucson	Arizona	A good sweat	Advanced
Chiva Falls	Tucson	Arizona	tough	Expert
Cobre Ridge	Tucson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Elephant Head	Tucson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Fantasy Island	Tucson	Arizona	easy	all levels
La Milagrosa	Tucson	Arizona	tough	xxx expert
Molino Basin	Tucson	Arizona	tough	Advanced
Peppersauce Loop	Tucson	Arizona	severe	Expert
Saguaro National Monument East	Tucson	Arizona	Fairly Easy	Beginner
Starr Pass - Yetman wash	Tucson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Sweetwater Preserve	Tucson	Arizona	Fairly Easy	Beginner
the Tortolitas	Tucson	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Tucson Mnts	Tucson	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Gila Mountain	Yuma	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Martys Ridge to Liberty Bell	Yuma	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Gabrielino Trail	Los Angeles	California	moderate	Advanced
Borrego dessert state park	San Diego	California	moderate	intermediate
Florida Canyon	San Diego	California	Easy	Beginner
Miners Ridge Trail	San Diego	California	Good Workout	Intermediate
Sun Devil way	San Diego	California	good workout	all levels
Anderson truck trail	San Diego - Alpine	California	Tough	Expert
Marys Loop	Fruita	Colorado	Moderate	Intermediate
Munro trail	Lanai	Hawaii	tough	intermediate
Secret Trails	Maui	Hawaii	moderate	Intermediate
Mt Haleakala	Maui - Kula Forrest preserve	Hawaii	Tough	Expert
Aiea Loop	Oahu	Hawaii	Moderate	Intermediate
Kaaawa Valley	Oahu	Hawaii	Moderate	Beginner
Maunawili Trail	Oahu	Hawaii	moderate	advanced
Baby steps	Moab	Utah	moderate	Advanced
Gooseberry Mesa	Zion	Utah	Moderat	Intermediate
Little Creek	Zion - St. George -Hurricane	Utah	tough	Advanced
Greenline #6	Olympia	Washington	Tough	Expert
Cranberry Lake	Seattle - Anacortes	Washington	moderate	Intermediate
Japanese Gulch	Seattle - Mukilteo	Washington	moderate	Intermediate

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Yeti 575

Hard to believe that it's been a year since I test rode that sweet 575 at McDowell mountain park and met the great Anthony Sloan. He left us way too soon. Would have been great meeting up with him again.