Sterling Forest MTB Trails

Well yes and no..Usually we ride in the other direction and we avoid most of the fire roads ..I would say 95% of the ride is single track and a lot of the gnarly stuff wasn't shown. It's a hair over 7 miles but feels like 14..

Also I'm not ashamed to say , i walk some of the stuff..

gorgonzola wrote

can you post a location? I need to mix it up Saturday morning, thinking either a gravel century or a road trip!

https://www.trailforks.com/poi/10223/

I was planning to ride there this Saturday, but don't know if I can make it up there by 9am...if it was a later in the morning I probably could though...

hope you can make it

wow just over 1-1/2 hrs for me, will be a game time decision. east parking?

south gate..just past or before the golf course, depends on the direction you are coming from..

ADmiKe wrote

I was planning to ride there this Saturday, but don't know if I can make it up there by 9am...if it was a later in the morning I probably could though...

Yeah, why are you guys meeting so early? I'm not sure I can get out by then.

I might have to go into the city with my wife..

JasonWx wrote

I might have to go into the city with my wife..

It's always the wife's fault, isn't it?  ;)

When the wife says jump...

how high? lol
let me know if this is not happening, was leaning toward mtb for tomorrow

As of now we are still on

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to miss tomorrow's Sterling Forest ride.  I can't get a window to ride early enough to get out there by 9. .I'll ride somewhere closer to me late morning.

Enjoy, Jason, James and whoever else make(s) it.

sorry
next time

Let us know how the ride went and how noisy your bike was.

Oh, and it never happened without pics!

Fun ride, great meeting everyone and thanks for posting! Got my rock and roller fix today!

It was a great ride, hopefully James has some pics to post..

Gorg nice meeting you, fun group today..

JasonWx wrote

Lots of options in the area..

very fun and exhausting place..ya just have to be comfortable with rocks..

Like rock  faces?

Very impressive ride. Since the previous time I was at Sterling Forest last November, the volunteer trail crew has finished a complete seven-mile loop. They were gathering in the parking lot at the same time as our biking group, so I said hello and thanked them for their hard work. One mentioned that they'll be finishing up a section at the top and that next Sunday there would be a grand-opening event (<-- also includes an interesting history of the trail: 17 years from early planning until completion, wow).




Jason hooked us up with a local group of riders; there were at least a dozen of us. To no surprise, I was the slowest (even with a busted derailleur, Gorgonzola was ahead of me), so I didn't have many opportunities to take in-action pix, which is a shame as there are all sorts of interesting trail features and a nice variety of trees I was hoping to document.




Here's an interesting section -- longer than it looks in the pic -- that about half of the group attempted. Very cool how all of the technical shots have ride-arounds for mere mortals.






I liked this rock bridge toward the end of the ride. No idea how the volunteers moved them into place; it must've been a fair bit of work.



In short, Sterling Forest definitely lives up to the hype. Hopefully Jason can post pix/video from the group leader.

 That looks like some mighty fine trail routing right there! I want in.

I just gotta get through the next two years and then traveling will be a reality for me. I'm itching for some east coast time and I need to visit family.