Category: Outdoors

This pic shows where the summer sun shines on the grass in my backyard.

Due to the bad air quality from all the nearby wildfires, I took a shorter mountain bike ride, doing the loop around Dick Nichols park.

I went on another mountain bike ride towards Barton Creek.  It clouded up as I left and started raining when I got to MoPac, so I turned around.  It was nice having rain, but it only rained 0.1 inch.  It didn’t make it to 100 today, breaking the string of 100 degree days.

I went on another mountain bike ride towards Barton Creek. I took a side trail to avoid the gully, but turned around after an hour. I saw a side trail leading down toward the trail (pictured), but I didn’t go all the way down. It was 104 degrees out, and I was feeling overheated.  Here is my path:

The city came out to fix the fire hydrant leak near my house.

I went on a mountain bike ride to the trail that goes under MoPac.  I went further that before, and came back on the trail that starts at Sams Club/Best Buy.

If you have some red-blue(cyan) 3D glasses, look at this picture of my mailbox.

I rode my mountain bike in the heat Tuesday. I went an hour and turned around before I got to Barton Creek.  The map shows the route I took. Barton creek is in the upper right and the red dot is my house.  Link to map:

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July weekend. I rode my mountain bike on the 4th and watched fireworks on tv as the local fireworks were cancelled due to the drought.

The bead broke on my new mountain bike tire and the tube popped out.  I had to walk home.

I updated my Mike Galpin web page