A Ride In the Forest and Is this Gabe’s Rock

Tuesday September 3, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

I went outside this morning and saw Barry’s truck in the yard. He’d gone out for a dirt bike ride without me. He likes to do that so he can ride the steep stuff which I usually avoid.

I sat down for some chair hopping and it wasn’t too long before Barry came riding in on his bike. Seems he’d had a mishap on one of his steeper hills and had falling over and got his leg stuck under the bike and couldn’t get it out until he pulled his foot out of his shoe. He said it was on a steep slope, so he had a hard time getting the bike back up. He had a bit of blood and a sore hip out of the deal and I bet some other pains tonight.

We sat around for awhile then we hopped on our bikes and rode around in the forest for awhile.

Spring

We stopped at this spring for a drink of water and both noticed the spring tasted different today for some reason. Not as good as usual.

We rode off and stopped at this spring for a drink of water to see if the taste of this one was off or not.

This spring water tasted real good at this one.

From there we rode over to a neighbor’s place where no one lives and stopped at the house for a bit.

I suggested we go out their gate which is usually locked , but not now, to see a big rock we can see from our resting area at the top of the hill.

We stopped here and Barry is headed out onto the big rock. It’s a straight drop off.

Barry, being a retired surveyor, pulls out his phone and starts checking things. We thought this might be Gabe’s Rock, as that is what this road from town is called, but no, it was down the road further.

Our break area is on the left ridge top, so we can see this rock from up there. There’s the house we stopped at on the way down to the rock about in the middle of the picture.