MAY 30 - Sorta Cutting Edge News
If you’re passing through San Francisco, consider dropping by the museum on Mission and 4th Street (it’s on the second floor of the Sony Metreon entertainment complex—right next to the Museum of Modern Art and the Yerba Buena Center). The doors are open Thursday through Monday, from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.
What the heck, this time you’ll actually understand just what it is that you paid to look at. Besides, it only costs five bucks to get in. You can take a date or spouse, look at cool stuff all day, and claim that it was all in the name of broadening your horizons. Women love to hear stuff like that—at least that’s what I once read in Sassy. Don’t ask. For more information, go to www.meandra.org/exhibits/index.htm.
More Trails/Easier to Find
Love Topo maps? Looking for a place to ride and the map/napkin with all the blurry ink ain’t cutting it? Trails.com is now selling their Trail Finder at retail stores such as R.E.I., Galyan’s, E.M.S. and other purveyors of tents and freeze dried foods.
Basically, Trail Finder is a guidebook of maps—you can download unlimited topo maps. Whoopee. Till your all petered out and your inkjet is begging for you to put it out of its misery.
What? Topo maps are about as sexy as that lady from “Murder, She Wrote” all dolled up in lacy undergarments? Well, well you clearly haven’t been saved the pain and humiliation of telling your buddies how flat the new trail was going to be, only to discover that it’s one lung-bustin’, scrotum-chafin’ hump of a climb the whole way. Topo maps (narrow spaces between the lines mean hellish climbs. Wide spaces denote, mellow ride) can save your ass before and during a ride. Believe you me.
Topo maps are also indispensable if you’re one of those good, trailbuilding souls. When it comes to laying down a trail, there’s no substitute for doing your initial research with a topo. The upside of Trail Finder is you can save yourself a shitload of downtime searching for a Topo of that backasswater trail you’ve heard about and are dying to try.
Trail Finder runs about $29.95—it’s basically a one year, web-based subscription deal (pop the disc into your computer, register the product and download stuff for 12 months.) I probably overstated the usefulness of the tool—you get access to 30,000 guidebook trails and “unlimited” Topos—which sounds like a veritable shitload to me, but hey, I imagine you’ll miss a piece of Vermont over here and a patch of Montana over there and so on. Still at 30 bucks, it’s not a bad deal.
A Web Site Worth Checking Out
An email came down the line a few weeks ago from Victor Walther. Walther created MTB-Amputee, as an informal organization for amputee mountain biking and cycling enthusiasts. Walther wondered if the rest of us might find this web site interesting. I strongly recommend that you check it out.
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