Not really planning any big rides. I’d like to ride up to Chilitna, but the season has been so wet that I don’t really feel like spending 8 hours on a bike to not see Mt. McKinley.
As for a riding buddy, I know the feeling- but I may have a solution soon. One of my friends told me last weekend that he totally wants to learn to ride a motorcycle but he would never do it by himself. He didn’t know I ride (okay, so I’m shy about it! I admit it!) or I think that would have come out last year when I was thinking about picking it up. So, we are signed up for the BRC at the beginning of August. We’ll see where that takes us.
In the meantime, I finally got my courage up to take the road up to Hatcher Pass- then I chickened out at the Motherload and turned around. *sigh* This afternoon, I think I’m going to go out and do Knik River road. I went to do it last fall, but when I got within about 1/2mi of the river, it was so freaking cold that I turned around. I have better gear, and the day is warm sunny…