I suppose I’ll take it more seriously when I get to ride No. 10 and up, but for now with ride No. 2 behind me I’m not fully vested in my late-breaking “Ride Every Day In October” challenge — an idea that my brain spat out yesterday at some point during yesterday’s ride the first …
It was a clearer day than has been in the last week or two, so I aimed my backyard 60x spotting scope at the summit of Mt. Hollywood (1640′ elevation; about 3.5 miles away from me as the bee lines) in the late afternoon and captured the sundown activity at the summit of Mt Hollywood …
Of ALL the times for my usually dependable GoPro cam to quietly crap out, it would have to be on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (or at least once a year if this www.paddlethelariver.org program is deemed successful) to kayak a roughly two-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River between Balboa Boulevard and the Sepulveda Dam. So …
For no good reason and/or the hell of it (using duct tape and earthquake hold) I managed to secure my cam lens to my backyard spotting scope eyepiece, which I then pointed at Sunset Boulevard between Micheltorena and Maltman in Silver Lake for the following two-minute timelapse of traffic. Maltman’s about two-thirds of a mile …
No, not really Ride No. 247 down the East Bank, but it’s certainly become a go-to for me of late. Guess I’m catching up for not discovering it earlier in my biking life. Anyway, this past Tuesday morning for the latest in my increasing string of East Bank/river bed rides I was joined by a …
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After Bike Week LA’s wet Blessing of the Bikes event on Tuesday, Wednesday morning was equally soggy. A late start prevented me from getting to Union Station in time for the scheduled downtown group bike ride, so I ended up doing my own down to Staples Center and back and heading to Lincoln Park and …
On the second day of Bike Week Los Angeles, the weather proved noncooperative. But the precipitation was faaaar from enough to keep me from attending the annual Blessing of the Bikes at Good Samaritan Hospital and then afterward meandering exploratorally back up to my neighborhood, where I then took the time to document a large …