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Follow-up... I've had the Taos about a month now. Loving it so far. Several 5+ hour rides, mixed road and gravel and the fit and comfort are spot on. The bike geometry nerds looking at the photo below will notice the very slack geo, short stem and low BB. It's not quite a hardtail MTB with drop...

100% Next month, we're heading out on a two week glamping road trip with most of the time in CO gravel biking and hiking (taking along a 5wt just in case). I upgraded my old boots with a pair of Hoka Kaha 3's where the pair feels lighter than one of my old leather boots.

Thanks for posting. Appreciate the ability to live vicariously through your adventure. What a set of memories. Amazing.

One from last week.

Yes. I had both a 6 and a 7. Loved them both. Still around but super pricy on the secondary market. Really loved it with Fomapan 400 processed in Rodinal for street and other on the fly stuff.

100% I was hiking in the desert last weekend and came up on some bird photographers with what looked like a 400/2.8. Looked heavy as hell. I'd love to have some longer legs in my rig but no way I'm lugging one of those things around in the desert/mountains even if cost wasn't the concrete...

I've been down in Tucson for several weeks visiting family and riding my bike most days. The riding down here is sooo good. Road, gravel, mountain are all great. Tons of nice, flowy 'green' XC trails that aren't full of roots and babyheads like back home. Super fun on my current gravel bike...

I add 30-45min to my almost weekly drive to Beaver from June onward. Or do the drive very early in the AM before the tourons in the RV's and Sprinters hit 101.

1) Sony A7R IV, 61MP full-frame and three fast primes from 24 to 135mm. Greatly exceeds my abilities as a landscape photographer. 2) Sony RX1R - Very compact point and shoot with a full frame sensor. Keep it in my truck all the time. Very good for fishing if you don't mind the fixed lens. 3)...

I had one on my Jeep as well with the same centrifuge for extra dusty environments (Coachella Valley, CA mostly) but I was usually too lazy to swap it out. Also not a pavement princess or mall crawler as it was a PITA to drive on the road compared to my other cars (sport sedans). I could GAF...

I so so want one of the Slate trucks. A close friend who has some acreage similar to mine has a little kei truck that I've been jealous of for dump hauling, moving gravel, etc. One of these would bw even better for that light duty truck stuff.

@Brute , did you get your Octa yet? After a lot of seller's remorse, I ended saying WTF and got another Outbound 130. It's a sickness but I remind my wife remind that I barely drink, don't do drugs, cheat, and have never been in a casino... ;)

It's at the base of a giant spruce growing out of the ancient stump of what was probably another giant spruce/fir/hemlock. :)

We have golden chanterelles everywhere on our OP place so they get used for everything in the fall. No morels that I've seen so far. Lot's of scary looking things all over the place that I would never trust myself to correctly identify. We also have a bigass cauliflower mushroom that's come...

I know this was a joke... ...and pretty much exactly what was described was actually happening as I looked over from the trail while riding my bike on the same day of the post. Maybe not trebles but bait and spinning rods for sure. It was at one of the usual bad spots, sharp right past Cedar...

Same spot, different day...

N+1 strikes again... Just ordered my 60th birthday present to myself, a new gravel bike, a Parlee Taos. Looking forward to the clearance to run 50s. Times change, when I bought my first gravel bike in 2019, 38's were the standard and looked huge. I've got over 1,000 miles so far in 2025 but...

Back when I was snowboarding at Alpental weekly, the number of corndogs eaten became the apres-ride measure of the day's quality. The question in our group was something like "Was it a one or two corndog morning?". Every now and there there would be the mythical three-corndog powderfest through...

Yeah, if one were thinking about spending $300K on a dinky little Landcruiser, they might as well sack up and go all in on a $1M++ real fishing rig (but still no gun turrets...): https://earthroamer.com/sx-explore/

Here's a Maltec built on an 80-series. Frickin' killer rig. https://www.treadmagazine.com/features/1993-maltec-land-cruiser-80-79-series-double-cab/