Post Ride Beer Stream of Consciousness

PRBSoC #13: Fall Brewing Flirting With Disaster West Coast IPA

Adventure. What is it? It’s not riding the same trails and nothing happening other than the same ole pedaling and knowing what’s ahead and anticipating that it will take x number of hours to complete the ride. It’s exercise, for the most part.

Throw in a crash. A broken bone. Blood.

A bear. A mountain lion. A rattlesnake.

The unexpected.

Okay, we’re getting into adventure now.

Mundane is good most of the time, but adventure feels better.

New trails is sorta adventure but not really if it’s all mapped out.

Big days on new trails and not knowing what really lies ahead. More adventurous.

Seeing a trail not on the map and then taking it and figuring out where the unmarked trail lead to, possibly meaning getting off the bike, possibly riding miles and miles and thinking, I don’t really know where this is going. More plus one adventurous.

Loading up the bike and going out there. Sleeping in the dirt. Filtering water. Counting calories. New terrain. No cell service.

Adventure biking.

Need more.

Desert season, thank goodness.

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