Monster Ride Home

Full of stuff related to Mountain Biking in the Ellensburg area.

I am currently working on updating the site. I took a few years off and have just started riding again. I will try to keep everything up and running while I do the upgrade, if you cannot access anything, check back later in the week.

Trail Guides

What you are probably looking for, listings of trails I have ridden in the Ellensburg area.

Books & Maps

What I read to find my trails.

My Equipment

Completely useless information about my bike and the other equipment I use when I go on a ride. You’ll find I’m something of a gadget collector.

Recipes

Mostly PowerBar substitutes. They probably don’t taste much better, but they can be significantly cheaper.

Creating Monster Ride

Just in case you are interested (beware, many product placements below, I receive no endorsements from any of these companies).

In the field, I get my GPS readings from a Garmin eTrex and take my pictures with my Canon EOS D20. Older pictures were taken with a (very) ancient Olympus digital camera, picture quality is pretty low and the lense is placed under my thumb position.

Monster Ride is created on a Apple 17" Powerbook running Mac OS X. The site uses a combination of Dreamweaver templates and PHP scripts to produce pages in XHTML and CSS. Images are edited using Adobe Photoshop. Topographic maps and elevation profiles are generated by Topo! software. Weather reports are generated by the Weather Underground. The aeriel photos are generated by Terraserver.

Monster Ride is served up on a Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X using Apache and PHP. The server is a computer running at Central Washington University (where I teach) and most of its work is devoted to my academic pursuits there, but it needs to take a break sometimes so I let it do this for fun. XHTML validation is run by the W3C HTML Validator (running locally) filtered through Ben Hammersley’s RSS cgi (also running locally), links are tested by Linklint, and log analysis is done with Analog.

I view Monster Ride with the Safari browser using the same Apple 17" Powerbook running Mac OS X that I use to create it.