Post Race!

[wes4dbt]

url is a person??? I thought it was a mountain range in Russia.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, url singular is just one of the mountains.

[wes4dbt]

High 70's today, suppose to get into the 90's next week. That's hot for March here. With such a low amount of snow pack that's not good.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, this wasn't much of a winter. We aren't as desperately dry as we were when the winter started out, but the snowpack is still really bad.

[dday9]

We had a cool winter that lasted a bit longer. Now it's back to being warm and in about a month it will be hot.

[dday9]

I cannot wait.

[wes4dbt]

Awfully quiet @ here.

We're having record high temps for March, will be like that for a few days. 90 in March, good start for a very hot and dry summer.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We'll be on fire. Not sure how it will end up impacting my bike ride this summer.

[Zvoni]

I managed to write 5 lines of code today.
In total.
It compiled on the first try.

Not bad for a Thursday....

[dday9]

My wife started making breads.

[dday9]

Just when I thought I couldn't lover her more, she said "hold my beer".

[dday9]

Growing up my dad would bring my brothers and me to church on Sundays.

[dday9]

When we'd leave, we'd go grocery shopping.

[dday9]

We lived out in the country, so it was about a 20-minute drive into town.

[dday9]

As a result, what we'd do is buy two loaves of French bread when we'd go shopping.

[dday9]

One would hold us over on our drive back home.

[dday9]

The other was used for whatever we were eating that night.

[dday9]

Which was typically a ham because my dad would want to use the bone for the red beans the day after.

[dday9]

All that to say that I really really really love bread.

[wes4dbt]

We'll be on fire. Not sure how it will end up impacting my bike ride this summer.

You doing the cross country ride you talked about?

[wes4dbt]

All that to say that I really really really love bread.

My mom would make yeast rolls sometimes. Get them while they're warm with a chunk of butter, yum yum.
No, bread making machines back then, it was an all day process.

I love a good sourdough, probably gonna buy a loaf of rye because I bought a corned beef and I'll just make sandwiches out of it.

I'm eating an English muffin as I'm writing this, come to think about it, I like bread a lot too.

[dday9]

I literally had corned beef for the first time this week.

[dday9]

It was kind of like a dry brisket.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We only did drum rolls.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, I intend to start the ride in the beginning of May. I have until November to reach Snoqualmie Pass. Might take all of it, might not.

[wes4dbt]

Where you starting from? Home or are you going to make it a coast to coast trip?

[Zvoni]

YIHHAAAAAAA!!!
Got good news this morning.

You're looking at a future participant for the Egyptian National Record Skydiving Attempt End of November this year.

The Dropzone will be exactly above the Pyramids.
This will be EPIC!!!!!

https://www.stw.skydiveegypt.com.eg/

[wes4dbt]

Good for you. Don't get to excited, remember to wear your shute.

[dday9]

"Spread The Wings Exotic Boogie" what a phenomenal tag line.

[dday9]

Kate Cooper-Jensen: 16,000+ Jumps

I'm sorry, but what?! Sixteen thousand jumps?

[dday9]

Norman Kent: 30,000+ Jumps

[dday9]

If Norman Kent only did one jump per day, to get to 30k jumps, he would have had to start jumping over 82 years ago.

[Shaggy Hiker]

There was a guy in Idaho who was jumping off the Perrine bridge, which is the one site out here where BASE jumping is legal. He set some record for the number of jumps in one day, but it required jumping, getting a ride from the canyon back to the top, then jumping again. Presumably, somebody else was packing chutes for him, though I'm not sure. He may have been doing it himself, though that seems like a bad idea, as you would get tired over the course of the day.

[Shaggy Hiker]

From that bridge, you can see the ramp that Evel Knievel used in his failed attempt to jump the Snake River canyon.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Where you starting from? Home or are you going to make it a coast to coast trip?

I'll be taking a train to Washington DC, then biking to the San Juan Islands in Washington State. It's not quite coast to coast, but it's also a bit more on the west coast and a bit less on the east coast.

[wes4dbt]

From that bridge, you can see the ramp that Evel Knievel used in his failed attempt to jump the Snake River canyon.

They left the ramp??? Did they turn it into a tour site?

[wes4dbt]

I'll be taking a train to Washington DC, then biking to the San Juan Islands in Washington State. It's not quite coast to coast, but it's also a bit more on the west coast and a bit less on the east coast.

Sound like an adventure. Also sounds dangerous. Stay safe.

Say Hello to Donald for me while your in DC.

[dday9]

Holy crap, that's a bike ride!

[Shaggy Hiker]

They left the ramp??? Did they turn it into a tour site?

The ramp is just an earthen structure, so it was likely easier to leave it than to do anything else. There may have been a surface on it, I've never gotten close enough to see. It may well be a tour site, but if it is, it is a minor one in a place that has better sites like Shoshone Falls and the Perrine Bridge itself.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I guess there's something there, though not much more than the ramp:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ev...oASAFQAw%3D%3D