Ask and Ye Shall Receive / I’m Lucky

since i last wrote, i’ve procured a mountain bike, free of charge.

how did i get a free mountain bike, you say?

i asked.

there is a great webgroup based out of telluride, called telluridefreecycle, where users can post items they want to give away, or items they’d like to have. i posted, very simply, that i’d like a used bike if anyone had one they needed to rid themselves of. and a few days later, i got an email from a very nice lady who not only had a used mountain bike, but was going to be in norwood and would drop it off at the bunkhouse. so she did. and it turned out to a be a specialized ‘hard rock,’ which is about 15 years old, but top of the line. bought at a bike shop and really taken care of. all it needed was a new innertube on the back tire, which i found at the hardware store for $5.99.

my $5.99 bicycle:

yeah. so that was pretty exciting. all i had to do was ask.

anyway, that was last weekend. after that was another week of hard fieldwork. on monday bob and i traveled to gunnison once again. we started a new project near blue mesa reservoir, which is the largest body of water in colorado, and really beautiful. we were surveying for another prescribed burn along little soap creek. we didn’t have a cabin on this one, and ended up tent-camping each night. which was alright, until it rained. a lot.

sitting out a hailstorm under a ponderosa pine

there was some beautiful scenery though, when the weather was more agreeable.

i can’t complain.

we got to scale some really neat stuff.

the geology here was amazing – rock formations made of volcanic conglomerates, sheer faces created by uplift. pinnacles and spires everywhere.

there was a lot of hard hiking, a lot of sweat, a lot of deer flies, and a lot of rain. we also didn’t really find anything interesting. but what neat country! another place that i never would have been able to explore were it not for this job. i’m pretty lucky.

~ by dieamselsingt on July 27, 2007.