Easy enough, just use your mountain bikes here...

Yup. McCain is a great road. You have the desert to yourself.

Must've been. Glad you got it resolved, whatever the reason.

Keith, yes, I clicked the globe thing and pasted in the embed code. I just redid it and it seems to be working now. Maybe a RidewithGPS hiccup?

Kelly, I'm in. Looking forward to it!

I'm here for ten days this trip. We have another club ride this Saturday. Meeting at Roy Schoonover Trailhead at 11 AM. Riding 10 miles to lunch at a BBQ place and back. All on the path. Maybe that works for you?

I followed the link and saw the map so it's not a permission issue on RWGPS.

You embedded it here as a map, right, and not as a picture or external link?

Maybe check that it's set to Public on the source? I forget whether you are Ride With GPS or Strava but if the ride doesn't have the right permissions at the source it won't show here.

I see what you mean about the blank map Keith. It's odd because I can see the embedded map when I'm editing the page but not when I'm viewing out of edit mode. I put up a picture of the map for now, will try to figure this out.

Yep, we rode it before the flood wiped out the old town.

Looking at Google Maps I see Valmeyer is half off, half on the floodplain.

My surviving memory neuron fired so I checked and sure enough: the town was moved up onto the bluff after being basically wiped out by major flooding in 1993. That was a few years after I left the area, so it would've been smack dab in the middle of the floodplain at the time I visited in the mid-1980s.

Two things:

1- your map is blank to me. Or was that a photo of a very dense fog bank?

2- Valmeyer IL! Right on the floodplain of the Mighty Mississippi. When I was in grad school at SIU-Carbondale many, many years ago some of the other students were doing field work in that area. Flat as a pancake on the floodplain, but a gawdawful climb back up the bluff.

"In the bleak midwinter..."

We will Rachael, have been studying up on all the cool places you've been this month. Will look forward to meeting again down the road.

I see that the Picacho Peak in Las Cruces is higher than the one on the way to Boulder City but the one near Tucson has quite a distinctive profile. Glad we got to meet earlier this month since we're ships passing at the end. Safe travels back north.