For Early Risers Who Wish That It Could Be Morning All Day
Okay, the song has nothing to do with the video other than we call our ebikes our horses. And our days are pretty good on them.
This is a recent bike ride on Zion National Park’s famous Scenic Drive.
The music is written and performed by Alberta cowboy-musician Stewart MacDougall. Interestingly, the backup vocals are performed by Billy Cowsill, former teen idol of the 1960s family band, The Cowsills. Billy was a lifelong musician and, sadly, this was his final performance.
Perhaps one of the most beautiful and enjoyable bike trails we have ever come across. Snow Canyon State Park’s (Utah) Whiptail Trail.
Above is the downhill video (4-min). If you would like to see it both uphill and downhill, click the video below (10-min). Remember to enlarge either to full-screen and up the resolution.
Music: Society by Eddie Vedder
Music: That Next Place by Thomas Newman (from the motion picture, Meet Joe Black — a decent, thought-provoking movie with, easily, my favorite movie soundtrack)
A quick ride on Washington, Utah’s Cottonwood Canyon Bike Trail.
Music: Speed by Montgomery Gentry
Since our arrival, the weather has been pretty cold and windy, so we have not ventured too far. We did, however, squeeze in a quick 15-mile loop around the neighborhood. We are very impressed by Washington, Utah’s commitment to paved bike trails — very bike friendly community! They have, like, bike highways! We don’t see those in Montana.
You are, no doubt, asking yourself where I got those stylish cold-weather bike gloves? Being the slave to fashion that I am, the answer is Home Depot (of course). I bought these Milwaukee anti-vibration gloves for use with my chain saw, but they ended up being the best palm-cushioned bike gloves I have ever owned (at the fraction of the normal bike glove cost). You can find them here (no, I don’t get a cut).
The bongo biking (and chainsaw music) is Bongo lo Cao Cao.
Celebrating my 69th solar orbit by bicycling in February in Montana — a first for us.
This is my last Going To The Sun Road video. I promise. Well, this year, anyway.
But it truly was dumb luck to be able to bike* — arguably one of our nation’s must scenic roads — virtually alone, all the way to Logan Pass. We missed the road’s automobile opening by two days. The Park never really tells you ahead of time when they will open it to the masses. It is always a springtime guessing game.
Now, through the summer, it will be packed with cars and congestion.
The above 3-min. video captures some of the pre-season majesty. It is normal speed — not sped up like the two previous videos.
Marlene and I will not likely return to the Park until post-season.
BTW, those two running girls ran all of the way up to the pass.
*ebikes (I guess if Mark McGwire needs an asterisk, so do we)