2025 Diablo Day 13 - Saturday Morning Junction

 

Nice day - getting close to shorts weather... time to get my summer bike prepped.

JB's still training for Grizzly Peak - lots of extra climbing and lots of extra miles... I was no help at all.

Lots of poppies still out - but I stopped to pick some lupines for my kitchen vase (soda bottle).

My camera mount came loose and so I got this great photo of my crotch.

Two guys with white shoes passed me easily.

Two guys with black shoes passed me easily. There seems to be a pattern here.

Lupines just begging to be picked and arranged.

2025 Diablo Day 12 - Saturday Morning Junction

 Not quite warm enough for shorts, but pretty damn nice.

I was feeling like a slug... I think all these years of work from home have caught up to me.

Some kind of trail running event going on; looked to be well-supported but it didn't look like anyone was doing serious competitive efforts.

Oh-oh, something's going on.

Medical helicopter - could be serious.

Oh, it was down there.

Now THIS is what April on The Mountain is supposed to look like!

April 01, 2025 Mount Diablo Trumpization

Federal Government will take over MDSP and turn it into a National Park so they can fire all the employees, cut off funding, and rename it Mount Donald J. Trump.

Also, he'll order the federal employees at Mt. Rushmore to "tear down those heads" and then he'll fire every one of them. He'll fly the granite rubble to the newly planned "Mount Trump Royal Airport" at the Summit, have his DOGE team reassemble them into the shape of a deformed Cheeto, and voila - we have Mar-a-Lago Contra Costa... membership fees will keep out the riff-raff.  Cyclists will be banned of course.

Idea: paint the road red to look like a long necktie!

Elon Musk will have his federal workforce of H1-B darkies mine The Mountain for rare earth metals to use to power his crypto machines so he can make enough money to buy that guy's property with the easement fence on Mt. Diablo Scenic and make sure that gate never opens.