The Bacon Strip » mountain http://www.teambaconstrip.com Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Farthest point from the center of the Earth http://www.teambaconstrip.com/2010/02/08/farthest-point-from-the-center-of-the-earth/ http://www.teambaconstrip.com/2010/02/08/farthest-point-from-the-center-of-the-earth/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:01:30 +0000 Wolfy http://www.teambaconstrip.com/?p=933

Conventional wisdom would make this easy. Fortunately you will rarely find conventional wisdom here on The Bacon Strip.

Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador

From Google Sightseeing:

Let’s look at Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. The summit of Chimborazo is 6,267 m (20,561 ft) above sea level, which is quite large but not quite the highest mountain in the Andes. If you take into account the Earth’s equatorial bulge, a straight line from the summit down to the estimated centre of our planet would be 6,384.4 km (3,967.1 mi).

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Pretty cool! It’s also the closest you can get to the surface of the moon without leaving the ground! I wonder how much closer The Sphincter Team got to the moon on their trip up Volcan Orsorno…

Stay tuned for updates from LowCO2, Huck Tater and myself this week as we head down to ride bikes @ 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo. And try to imagine this awesome print of Mt. Banner @ Thousand Island Lake by The Restless Ape in your living room, Bedtoom, or bathroom. You’ll get a chance to bid on it this week!

-M

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Yesterday Nooner, Bustigator, The Restless Ape, Aron, Juni and I found a new trail out in Sparks thanks to a tip from my buddy Martin. It was RAD!

Zipper Trail

It starts off a dirt road behind the new softball fields near Red Cock Gold Course. Follow the pink BLM access signs for now. It starts with a cool singletrack, then climbs about 900 feet over really short distance. It’s a lung buster for sure but most of the switchbacks are really well built and fully ridable.

Zipper Trail

We ran into one of the builders @ the top. Thanks man!!!

The trail loops around from the top there by the chicken sign. Suggest going right for the loop. There is some seriously technical stuff on the back side. Steep, loose, tight, rocky and super fun! About 10 miles all together.

There was some fall-line trail on the back side and some in-sloped sections with no drainage, but it looks like these guys are out there working fairly frequently and are on top of it. Great trail. Lots of potential. I’d like to see it go all the way south to I-80…

Also: check out all the new trail work being done over on Peavine!!!

-M

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