Castell Grind: April 2, 2016

The Wildflower Farm in Fredericksburg

a chilly Friday afternoon in Luckenbach

Friday evening packet pickup in Castell with chickens roaming freely in the streets

Some of the group at packet pickup

Friday evening pizza

It was a bit chilly on Saturday morning before the race

Woohoo, made the podium!  Fourth place in the 75K

Post-ride pic after Rick finally made it in from doing 100K on the 75K race

Vince looks like he's enjoying the pain meds after a trip to the Llano ER for a broken scapula after a crash with a car near the end of the race

JD & Jill at the Altdorf

Sunday morning at the Wildflower Farm

March 20, 2016

St. Patrick's Day at the Western with Rick and Sandra 

A herd of wild mustangs on the Friday afternoon ride with Rick, Vince and Sandra

Sandra's first proper mountain bike ride on the new mountain bike

Vince on the back roads

Sandra climbing out from a back road adventure

The crew on a perfect day

Rest stop during a 6 mile/2000' climb up La Luz Canyon road on Saturday 

We made it

The road back down

New sign at the Western

The daffodils started opening while we were there

February 14, 2016

Still lots of snow at the top of the James Ridge area on the Friday afternoon ride with Rick and Vince

Four crashes, but three into deep snow

Hmmm....

The best place to spend a Friday night

La Luz Canyon Road on Saturday

La Luz Canyon Road was a little warmer and a lot drier

View of the area looking back toward Cloudcroft from an unknown side road

The side road

Pat & Robert were in town and joined us at the Western on Saturday afternoon after the ride

Toby by the fire

Goliath--December 2015

Sunday afternoon when the blizzard & snow really started picking up

"Goliath" started at about 6pm on December 26 (Saturday) and lasted until early Monday morning.  We had approximately 11.5 inches of heavy snow which yielded 2.24" of moisture.  The winds blew at up to 60 mph during the blizzard.  It was brutal.  We were snowed in on Monday, but Rick's truck was able to make it on Tuesday.  My car finally made it on Friday.

The kitties watched a bunny who spend the blizzard and most of the next week in the patio chair

7-8 foot snow drifts in the back yard lasted about 6 weeks

It doesn't look too bad, but looks can be deceiving.

We decided we might as well go mountain biking since we were stranded. 

A week later on County Road 1

2 weeks later on County Road 1

2 1/2 weeks later it was a mud-fest

Almost a month later on another Lynn County road

Still a little snow almost 2 months later on County Road 1 at Hwy 87