Up to the top of Latigo Trail, in Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve. North view, overlooking Brown's Ranch area.

Roscoe 7, Vittoria 2.35" Barzo Trail/Mezcal Trail combo. (This bike is quite nimble and lively now, with the new XC tires and having cut the bars back from 800mm to 740mm.)

The Dixileta Trail runs right up beside Bob Parson's (of GoDaddy fame) Scottsdale International Golf Club, for a peek at the 1/2 percenters' wives enjoying their day. This course is an amazingly pristine, flawlessly manicured and nurtured, green oasis in the midst of the Sonoran Desert.


South view, toward the McDowell mountains, which Scottsdale city nuzzles right up into.