OK, this is completely random…I was out at one of my field sites last week with a fellow from the Colorado air quality agency. He was using some EPA-equivalency equipment to audit one of my ozone analyzers. As we were setting up the gear, I was shocked right out of my shoes to hear that he’d read some of my BaconStrip entries; his name is Greg Harshfield and he is a known associate of JaphyRider. Who’d a thunk it?
Greg is a fine fellow and has helped us a great deal with our equipment and thus with our data quality control.
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You met Harshie?! He and his lady are awesome! Former Reno-ites now living on the Front Range, and great endurance race pit crew members. They have feed and cheered JR and I on, on many occasions. Incidently, they are going to be in Reno sometime within the next week and plan to hangout with us a little and meet the grom, if anybody is interested.
-SAS
“i’m not paranoid! i’m not paranoid!” to paraphrase Special Ed and the Shortbus Blue Grass Band…
will the real Harshie step forward
i like to credit Harshie for my affinity for sagebrush snow skiing missions in the Great Basin, for Blackberry Brandy under full moons in the mountains, for driving dirty trucks, slow, on dizzyingly bumpy dirt roads with a barley pops in hand, to alpine starts and stupid long bike rides on dirt roads (heard about the “i’ll just ride dirt roads home from Pyramid Lake” effort?) and most of all, just goofin’ off in Nevada.
actually, i met Harshie on a one day hike up Whitney - he camped with us then went hang gliding over Owen’s Valley that weekend. then, a week or 2 later, he got me a job washing labware in the Organic Analytical Laboratory, something like 14 years ago!!! i’m still at the OAL now, turning knobs and wrenches, geeking out over chromatograms and mass specs.
we can learn a bunch from that old goat. buy him a beer for me, or better yet, make one for him!
McD
Great picture, I will retain it for potential blackmail purposes. Now I can fully give Greg shit for being the geek I always figured he was.
I was thinking about Greg a few days ago as I was cruising through Denver on my way to some rafting on the Arkansas before heading for home. Mostly I was remembering his face plant into some prickly pear (I think) during the McDaniels Wedding Weekend. Good times.
It’s a small world afterall.
~R
long live the C.F.P.! i can’t thank enough all of the friends who were there for us then, and who’ve supported us since. i hope to be as strong for you.
and for making it a fantastic wedding
from what i’ve heard, you good friends had just as much fun after we were married and merrily & on our way to a honeymoon in the Escalante. biking, Sinagua bike shop BBQ’s, beer, and chillin’ in Flagstaff - i almost wish Shredder and I’d honeymooned in FLG… but alas, we rode away on motopeds, walked in the wilderness, and slept in the sand.
open a beer, kick back, check those pics, pencil in a weekend in Sedona and let me know when you’ll be there. i’ll sport the keg.
J.r.
I’m a lot closer than you, so you let me know when you’re heading to Sedona and I’ll be there (with the wife, of course). I might even be able to finagle a place for all of use to lay our heads at night and drink beer in the afternoon.
I love Shredder’s stuff about Harper. Please tell her to keep it up.
Love and affection to you and your family.
~Reed and Amber
cruising the great loopmness: attention Japhyrider at The Bacon Strip