January 14th, 2009
Today Richard, Randy, and John rode 8 miles up Sugar Camp Hollow to the culvert, the Table Rock Trail to English Creek, crossed at Slick Rock Ford and returned by the Bone Breaker to Sugar Camp Hollow. Moving time 2 hours, 4 minutes. 35 minutes stopped. Total Ascent 685 feet. Temperature 50 degrees. Incidents: John [...]
January 7th, 2009
Richard Rogers, John Ross, Randy Stanfield, Andrew and Bryan Welch rode 7 miles today on the Homeplace, Sulphur Spring and Worley Bottom trails.
A great photo op was missed when Randy did this but popped a wheelie on the downside and fell over flat on his back. Some parts are going to be really sore [...]
January 4th, 2009
For the first Sunday afternoon ride of the year Richard and John were joined by Mike Martin who had not ridden a mountain bike since John made him ride to the Fire Tower and back 10 or 15 years ago. He fared much better this time and we hope he will be back. We rode [...]
January 3rd, 2009
Richard and John have ridden every day this year so far. Thursday was a short ride down the creek trail, Friday we went to the Sugar Camp Hollow Waterfall and on up to the culvert and back on the road, and Saturday we rode the short loop by the Homeplace and the Sulphur Spring trail [...]
December 27th, 2008
Richard, Ian, John and Quest blew leaves and trimmed briar and branches on the sugar Camp Hollow trail this afternoon. A little chainsaw work and some dry weather and it will be be ready to ride:
Richard using the leaf blower
December 17th, 2008
SCHIMBA celebrated the holidays with festivities at Richard’s lodge. The main course was taco soup prepared by Erin Rogers. We also had shrimp, potatoes by Ian, homemade bread by John, and cookies. Gag gifts were distributed by Richard, but most of them cannot be shown here. First time participants were Dr. Alan Miller and [...]
November 10th, 2008
Richard, John, Randy, and Ian made another expedition to the Bankhead National Forest for a hike and mt. bike ride last weekend. Some people learned to bring winter sleeping bags for November campouts. No accidents. (correction: 1 accident, Ian says he did a 12 endo and nearly broke his arm, but no ER visits or [...]
November 5th, 2008
Ian Orford and John Ross rode the Sugar Camp Hollow and Table Rock trails today.
6.98 Miles1 hour 25 min riding time25 min. stoppedtotal ascent 642 feet.
A camping trip to the Sipsey is scheduled for this weekend.
November 2nd, 2008
Richard, Randy, Pat Riley and John met at the cabin at 1pm for an afternoon ride. The plan was to go to Sunset Ridge and then down the big hill there, up to Airport Road, and return down Sugar Camp Hollow, but Richard endoed going down the hill, landing on his head causing some severe [...]
October 20th, 2008
This message is just in from EC about Andrew’s racing record in Texas:
Howdy John. I will have lots of professional photos to post of Andrew racing later. (the two main race photographers are in our club) But for now, here are a few snapshots of Andrew that my wife got with our camera. The laps [...]