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In his new memoir, “Sonny Boy,” he calls his little crew “a pack of wild, pubescent wolves with sly smiles,” and describes how his three best friends, Cliffy, Bruce and Petey, eventually died of heroin overdoses.

Unfortunately, this is the start of what many consider the hardest part of the ride — five miles of ribbon-thin trail pasted onto the vast, cliffy, scree-littered slope of the mesa.

Western Conference finals, Robinson performed a dance in the locker room that became known as the Uncle Cliffy.

Nicknamed Uncle Cliffy, Robinson played 18 seasons in the NBA and helped the Portland Trail Blazers reach two NBA Finals.

On a crystalline afternoon in June 2008, cheerful puffy clouds and the distant, snow-laden peaks of the San Juan range beckon me up an unpaved road near Ouray, Colo. My plan, based on the vague guidance of a guy in a bike shop, is to pedal up this cliffy escarpment, locate a mountain bike trail and ride it six or so miles down a valley to the town of Ridgway, where I’ll rendezvous with my wife, Cathleen.