Thursday Night @ The Top of Red

Looks like it was a great ride. Lots of smiling faces even after the first Red training ride of the season.  Thanks for the pictures Greener.  Check out the slide show at the top right.  Looks like the beers were good also.  Thanks Bob.
Check out these two files provided by Rick Greene. They are really neat.
Right click(control click for Mac) this link to download Google Earth data of Top Of Red ride
Right click(control click for Mac) this link to download Google Earth data of Malde To Snuggs To Warfield ride

John Lord's 50th Birthday(May 28)

Lordy, Lordy look who is 50.  Hum, doesn't rhyme, oh well, close enough.  Sorry for the delay on this one John but I was away from my computer for the weekend.  But, as they say, better late than never.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY from THE HOLY WOW GANG!!!!!!  Hope you like the picture.

Thur Night Ride(May 27)

When: 6:00 PM Thursday May 27

Where: @ Rick Greene's house

Ride: Top of Red to do full Red Top Head trail.

Brother Al Santano was up to the top of Red and sent me pictures to show how nice it was.  I have included one of them in this post.  Thanks Al.

Beers will be @ Bob Reardon's house after the ride.  I do not know where he lives so you will have to keep up to him and his bionic hip in order to find out.  I am in Kelowna for the weekend and will not make the ride.  Would someone take some pictures for me so I can post them on this blog?  Thanks.

Tour de Snuggs (Tue Night Ride)

Check out this picture of the tour master himself in his wonderful little domain. Great spot John and a super tour even though it was "A LITTLE WET".

There were 8 tour members and we jockeyed about in the peloton as we toured the mountain close to violin lake. The trails were a little like lakes but the cabin was beautiful. Thanks John.

Down the rail grade drafting for speed took us to Dave Shannon's for a bike wash and a beer. It tasted very good. Dave gave us a ride back up in the Burban. He said he could tell that we only had 8 riders this time because the truck had a much easier time of it. Thanks Dave.

Check out the pics in the album to the right.

Tuesday Night Ride(May 26)

When: 6:00PM Tuesday May 26

Where: Norm Hopkin's house

Ride: Malde to Tiger Main to lower Cherry Poppins to John Snugg's cabin to Rail Grade to Dave Shannon's in Warfield for refreshments

I will make a quick pass past Greener's on my way down just to make sure that we do not leave any stragglers. John Snuggs and Dave Shannon are arranging the shuttle and such. The weather should be good.

KC Ridge to Old Rubber Head

Thursday was a great night. The weather was excellent, best we have had in a long time. I think there were a baker's dozen of us but who is counting. I am never going to list names again because I will forget someone and they will be disappointed.(sorry George) All in all a great night of riding. The trail surfaces were perfect and the return to the Old Rubberhead was very nostalgic.

The refreshments at Al Santano's were perfect. Thanks Al. The ride home in a warm truck was awesome too.

Check out the slide show of pics on the right.

Holy Wow Rookie Featured in Paper

Holy Wow rookie Mike Tench got his picture in the local paper, along with an interview.  He was riding at Moab and took a copy of the Trail Times with him in order to be photographed with the paper.  Turns out that Moab is a sister city of Rossland.  Why does it have to be a sister what about a brother city or maybe a relative city?  Anyway, Mike is in a wee bit of trouble because he did not mention his affiliation with the Holy Wow Gang? We will have to seek retribution.  Nice one Mike.

Thursday Night Ride (May 21)

When: 6:00PM

Where: @ Greener's

Ride: KC to KC Ridge to Cemetary to Old Rubber Head to All Santano's for refreshments.

We will try the KC ridge trail. Hopefully it has been cleaned up. It supposedly has been subject to some illegal trail modifications. Let's check it out. See you there.

Tuesday (May 19) Report

Mother nature tried to dampen our spirits with cold wind and hard rain but she failed to stop 8 members of the Holy Wow Gang from riding Dukabor Draw. At 6:00PM the sky was black and rain was falling like COLD water from a tap. Nine of us showed up at Greener's for the start of the ride. It was raining really hard and so we decided to wait a bit and see if it would stop.

Nine showed up, how come only 8 rode is the question you are asking? Poor Murray blew a spoke nipple on the wheel I had tensioned for him(my fault) so he decide to skip the ride. I will try and make it up to him.

The skies cleared and we rode. It was a good ride, a little wet and mucky but no rain fell. We haven't been rained out yet in this very wet spring season.

Tuesday Night Ride(May 19)

When: 6:00 PM Tuesday May 19

Where: Rick Greene's Place (he will not be there)

Ride:  Dukabor Draw to a car drop in the Paterson Valley.

We will drop the cars around 5:30 PM leaving from Greener's place.  We need a place for cold beers after the ride because Rick is away.  We rode the trail on Saturday  and cleaned up a good amount of debris so it should be fairly good.  See you there.

Pot Luck Ride(Monday May 18)

When: x:xx PM Monday May 18

Where: Meet @ Dave N's

Ride: Bring your idea for a ride(potluck) and we will try and make a meal out of it.

Give me a call or email if you are interested. We can change time to meet your schedule.

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Dukabor Draw Had Everything

There was a great turn out for the Saturday long weekend ride and it was warm for a change. There were 10 of us including 3 ladies (allowed on the weekends) and everybody enjoyed the ride.  We are still hiking through snow in some spots and there is a lot of mud and water but it is just great to be riding. Stay tuned for a Monday ride.

Saturday Ride(May 16)

Where: @ Dave Nutini's
When: 1:00PM Saturday May 16
Ride: Drake's to Dukabor to Patterson

We need to check out Dukabor Draw for Tuesday night, SOOO!! we are
going to ride it on Saturday afternoon @ 1:00PM leaving from the
museum or David Nutini's house. We will be arranging for a truck for
us in Paterson. Let Dave know if you intend to ride.

Thursday Night @ the Oasis

Well, we did not let the weather deter us but it sure looked ugly as we pedaled our way up the Nancy Greene highway.  There was some moaning from the six riders that showed up but in the end everyone was smiling.

Neptune Creek road was a mud bath but the Oasis trail was in perfect shape and Rick, Dave, Kim, Bob, Norm and Mike ripped it up and even found the odd lake to wash our bikes in as you can see from this picture of Bob Reardon.

The beers and music were superb at Mike Tench's house.  Thanks Mike. Everyone is looking forward to Dukabor Draw on Tuesday night.

John Lord Gets New Wheels

John Lord has new wheels.  Check them out. It is a Mongoose Teocali, looks really nice.

Thursday Night Ride (May 14)

The riding has been good and we have been lucky with the weather. Hope our luck lasts for this ride.

Meet at Dave's house @ 6:00 PM. We will ride up the highway to Neptune Creek road and down the road to 6km and ride Lower Oasis.  There will be trucks at the bottom waiting to take us to Mike Tench's house for refreshments. Please let me know if you will attending so that we can make plans for the truck transportation.

Dave N.

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Tuesday On Pale Ale-Milky Way

Nine of us braved the cool weather (3°C and snow showers) to ride up 
KC for the first time this year in order to ride Pale Ale and Milky 
Way. It was very slippery. Murray Gilchrist cleared out some trees 
and made the ride very enjoyable. Hope the saw (head and ear ) is OK 
Murray. The climb up Green door is getting to be bearable maybe even 
better than the Wagon Road. A good time was had by all.
Greener got the beer fund going, so we were not without refreshment at the end of the ride. Looking forward to Thursday Night.

Dario rocks the rock on Milky Way.

Rick shows us how to do it.

The Old Guy getting smoother with age.

Norm's Birthday

Here's wishing Norm Hopkins, a long time member of the Holy Wow Gang a very Happy Birthday. I noticed that his boy Mike gave him a nice pair of Dakine shorts to replace the Kona ones he has been wearing forever. Happy Birthday Norm. Love ya man!!!!

Tuesday Night Ride(May 12)

Heard via the grape vine that Pale Ale is open SOOO! I think it is time to do the premier flow ride in Rossland. Bring your hand saws if you have them because we may have to do some maintenance.

We'll meet @ Greener's @ 6:00PM and ride up to KC down Pale Ale down Milky Way and up Green Door. Beers will be at Greener's after the ride. See you there.
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Oasis was SWICKED!!!

Kim, Dario, Murray and Dave dropped their work around the house and rode Oasis.  We rode up the highway through the odd flurry and cool breeze, and arrived at Neptune Creek Road warm as toast after the pedal.  Nice workout. Now for the fun part. The road was wicked fast and the trail was smooth and sweet. Great ride!! Maybe we will do it again on Thursday.

Need Ideas for Tuesday (May 12)

I am stuck for ideas for the Tuesday night ride. Let me know what you
think. Have you heard of any other trails opening up?

Saturday OASIS

Heard that Oasis is good.  Have to ride the road to 6 km. Should we double drop using trucks at both ends or should we ride up. Leave your comments or email me.  Ride start time 1:00PM from David Nutini's house. Let me know if you will attend.

Thur Night Ride (May 7)

Great ride. Weather cooperated. Thanks to John Sullivan, the beers
were cold and tasty.

Thursday Night Ride (May 7)

We will meet at Dave Nutini's house @6:00 PM and ride Cemetary to Roger's to Green door to Milky Way to the Wagon Road up to the old Golf Course Road where Dave's Truck will be waiting to take us back to Dave's house for beers.

Remember Sun Valley

Remember Sun Valley in 2001. We will be returning to Sun Valley this fall. Be sure to book the Wed thru Sun of the third week of September for HOLY WOW 18. Have a look at the calendar of events on this blog site. For your convenience find the weather report from Snow-Forecast.com

Welcome To HWBlog

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