Sunday, January 8, 2012
Rec Still No Snow ... F*** it, Go Mountain Biking
Posted by Andrew Mentzer on Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM
I was sitting around the house feeling sorry for myself because Bogus Basin still isn't open, and I decided that rather than moping, the glass needed to be half full somehow, someway. So I dusted off my fully rigid Surly 1X1, checked trail conditions on the Ridge to Rivers website, and headed off for Hulls Gulch in 40-ish-degree weather.
Not surprisingly, I wasn't the only person out making the most the unseasonably nice weather. It was strangely reminiscent of an early spring ride, with hundreds of people flowing to and from Camel's Back Park via the Foothills trail system. And generally, the trails were in great shape—frozen to tacky depending on how much shade they'd had.
As luck would have it, I happened upon Darren Lightfield, owner of the Wild Rockies mountain bike race series, near the intersection of the Crestline and Lower Hulls Gulch trails. He and company were making the most of the fine weather—en route to Bob's Trail. Apparently it's never too early to get in shape for racing season.
Here's a snippet of what you will find on the R2R site:
Trails are Drying, but Choose Your Route Carefully
Basically a carbon copy of yesterday's report ... most trails will continue to dry out with the sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures. However, trails that contain significant clay in the soil such as Old Pen and Cottonwood Creek continue to hold moisture and should be avoided after noon. Also be wary of running into mud further out on the Polecat Loop. Please turn around if you do. As always, please choose routes accordingly to avoid potentially muddy trails.
updated - 1/7/2012
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Andrew, pretty pathetic title for your article. If you need to drop the F-Bomb to get folks to read your article you're not much of a writer. You might want to try to earn some respect for your writing....
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I left a message for your boss and forwarded this link and article to the FCC. No reason to use vulgarities on a page assessible to minors. This rag displays time and time again that they have no journalist just profane , classless individuals pretending to be writers.
Regardless of the profanity. The real message is that Bogus should have spent money on snow blowing machines instead some new chair lifts. Who cares how fast you canget up the mountain if theres no snow 2 ski down it.
Denise, the issue isn't snow blowing machines. Bogus doesn't have a water source which is necessary to make snow.
Hi all,
Editor chiming in here. I've written this a few times, but here goes again:
Boise Weekly has never been the kind of publication kids should read. We print bad words, we advertise booze, tobacco and phone sex, and we talk about "grown up" things in our pages and on our website that many people don’t consider appropriate for their children. If you don't want your kids reading about adult things and seeing profanity, Boise Weekly and boiseweekly.com isn't content they should read. Policing your kids ain't our job, readers, it's yours.
And finally—and I hope this is the last time I have to write this: The FCC does not regulate newspaper content.
Cheers,
Rachael Daigle, editor
Rachael, I was commenting on the complete use of the F word on Yahoo's home page which my 8 year old SHOULD be able to read. If the fault that the entire word (no asterisks) was printed falls on Yahoo, then shame on them. BUT, if your writer had a more complete vocabulary, we could have avoided this situation altogether. As an editor I would expect you to try to instill some journalistic integrity in your writers and not go for the "grown up language" approach. Pretty weak. Plenty of "grown ups" that I know don't speak like that.......
Whatever . . . censorship police . . . there is still no f***ing snow in the mountains.
Thanks for another great article Andrew; and for the reader's who can't handle the breadth of perspective's available on the web, I heard China has some great internet regulations that might be right up your alley.
With that being said, time to get back to my snow dance!!
OMG! I had no idea what F*** meant until now! Thanks for the clarification! But now I know that there is profanity in the world :( do you think there are other bad things in the world that could hurt me? I hope not.... I will continue to live my life in the charade that everything is perfect and no one swears or does bad things. Thanks!
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