Backward Mutters

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  • Mountains of Misery

    You know, I’m probably the last to figure this out, but there’s a double entendre in “Mountains of Misery.” On the one hand we might understand it as the mountains in which or of which there is misery. But what just hit me is that it’s really MOUNTAINS [as in…

  • Hanging Rock and Sauratown Mountain

    Der Jan and Big Red worked on their mountain base by riding their velos up to Hanging Rock and Sauratown Mt. The 10 mph headwind up to Stokes County made it slow going on the way up, but the return payoff was awesome! This picture of the backside of Moore’s…

  • Sweet Aroma

    I’ve been passing honeysuckle on my rides, and I was reminded of a piece I wrote back in 2004 after a 14 year hiatus from the bike. Here it is in its entiriety. Well, I did it. I mustered up the courage to climb back on my bike. Granted it…

  • That’ll learn ya!

    Coming around the turn to the bridge on Salem Lake another rider was on my side of the path. I had my hands on the bar ends and couldn’t get to the brakes. Instead of running into a boulder, I tried to steer through it, but my front wheel washed…

  • Getting Stoned

    While at Appalachian I moved in some of the same circles as Steve Jeck. We went to church together, taught middle school in the same school system, and sang in the North State Chorale together. An all-conference shot and hammer thrower in college, Steve turned to Highland gaming after college…