Today's Ride

Nice bike MikeK.  And yup, night riding is like night and day.......

Sorry to hear about the fire.

The west is so different in that way. We don't think to much about fires consuming lots of homes outside of urban areas. And certainly not that kind of acreage.

The single track looks fun. How far is it from home?

Harvey wrote

Sorry to hear about the fire.

The west is so different in that way. We don't think to much about fires consuming lots of homes outside of urban areas. And certainly not that kind of acreage.

Unfortunately, catastrophic fire is the new normal out here.  This season was bigger than last, and last season was record breaking.  I think it was more than a half million acres scorched in WA state this year.  It would be nice if we could get record snow with record fire, but it certainly didn't work out that way last season  

Harvey wrote

The single track looks fun. How far is it from home?

This one is about 20 minutes from home.  

Telemark Dave wrote

Nice bike MikeK.  And yup, night riding is like night and day.......

Thanks!

I brushed a few trees in tight spots, I'll tell you that!  I could see fine - the light setup I have is more powerful than the brights on my car, it was just different somehow.

Next step will be skiing this area at night!  It's a small plateau, only about 100-150' vert but there are gullies and natural half pipes all over (the best bike trails are in these pipes).  It's pretty much all hardwoods and mostly clean from all the bike trail work.  Should be some fun xc skiing!

Still ridin'...

MikeK wrote

Still ridin'...

Where were ya riding?  Also, nice Avatar!

'round Rochester area:

http://mygroc.com/single-track.html

This was at West Bay.  The others were at Dryer Rd.  I mix it up depending on conditions.

Still riding.  We blew all the trails the first week of Nov, after all the leaves were down, and everything's riding great.  This is yesterday morning:



When I ride our entire trail network it ends up being almost exactly 9 miles (we added almost 2 miles more singletrack this year).  I hardly ever ride straight through without stopping for some sort of trail maint, but did yesterday (except for a 4-5 min re-hydrate, de-hydrate, photo stop).  Covered the 9 in just under an hour 30 (including the stop), so averaged sub 10-minute miles.  Pretty happy with that.

Anybody near Wilton that wants a tour or a copy of the trail map, give me a shout.  We've had lots more people riding this year so word's been getting out.  There's a whole crew (not me) that'll be riding fatties here this winter.

Still ridin' as well...

It snowed this morning, so that's gonna mess things up, but I took a day off last week and rode two bike parks... one in the morning, one in the afternoon.

Half pipe thinger at Tryon:



I was at the Bay in the morning.  I'm gonna ski this shit:

MikeK wrote

I'm gonna ski this shit:

Hard to complain about this weather

i agree. went for a beautiful ride on the thatcher park trails today. shorts and t-shirt. i'm beginning to worry.

Damn, me too.  My wife reminded me that we were skiing last Black Friday.  I mean skiing in the woods, not at a resort on fake snow!

I tried to take a ride today but I forgot my pedals.  Don't ask me how that happened, but it did.  I took a hike instead...

I never imagined I could be smiling this much when it's fifty six degrees on black friday.

Fantastic riding.


Ruby Mtn from the Red/Yellow trail intersection

Shout out to Shaman for the surprise trail blowing. Sweet.

I also had an amazing ride this morning into afternoon with the local crew.  Weather was perfect for riding and I was on some private trsils that I had only been on once a few years ago when they were in their infancy. Today there was 7 miles of single track with raised ladder sections, jumps, berms, both earth, wood and rock form as well as wooden berms with just the right amount of chicken wire to keep your grip in the morning dew.  Pretty incredible that it was all on private property just 30 miles north of midtown.

I'm taking a half day tomorrow and going MTB.  Fuck this shit...

good move

this might be one of the coolest videos i have seen ..
the last move was insane....watch the whole video

 http://www.singletracks.com/blog/mtb-videos/must-watch-danny-macaskill-the-ridge/

yea as much as i'm jonesing to check out my new hip on the ski will likely stick to the mtb for now

I don't know about you guys but our trails are dry and it's in the 50's.  Oh and there is no snow... seems like a no-brainer to me!

Just got my new peddles yesterday