bikes & mountains

[Guest guest]

Hi Doc<br><br>Mountain bike. I personally find

road cycling boring (to do - although I'm an avid Tour

de France fan on TV). They had the first big

snowfall of the season in Austria on Saturday - enough to

make cycling too unpleasant and dangerous, not enough

for snowboarding yet. Very beautiful,

though.<br><br>I haven't climbed for a few years. I just don't

find pushing myself to the limit and getting scared on

hard technical climbs appealing any more. Things that

I do still find appealing are bouldering and long,

non-technical alpine ridges. But there's no decent bouldering

anywhere near where I live. There are, of course, hundreds

of glorious alpine ridges but the difficulty is

finding somebody to go with - I find that people who have

the technical ability to be fast and safe on that

sort of ground generally want to do harder things,

whereas I don't any more. <br><br>I'd love to hit Joshua

tree with you if I'm ever in southern California, as

long as I don't have to ride there from San Diego.