Kevin and I headed up to Salmon Falls this weekend. My Enduro was out of action due to a couple of broken spokes so I decided to take the Sugar out of the barn. I hadn’t ridden my Gary Fisher Sugar on a serious trail in a long time. Right around the beginning of the year I broke the second frame on it so I decided to park it.
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Category: Cycling
Everything pedal powered
Rained Out
We were planning on riding Hole in the Ground on Saturday but it started raining when we got to Auburn. We continued on while the rain was light, but then it started pouring rain. Eventually we all decided to turn back and ride in Auburn where hopefully the rain was a bit lighter. We wound up riding Clementine Loop under a constant drizzile. The ride was a blast, who would have figured that the wettest muddiest ride of the year would be in August!
Return to Cannell Plunge
I made a return trip to the Cannell Plunge, this time with a larger group, and with some people who were a bit faster than I am. We pushed a bit faster pace than I did last time and we also put in some bonus miles to Sherman Peak before heading down the Cannell Trail. Overall this was an incredible journey and the best ride yet.
I also had a great ride with Eric and Kelly at Annadel Park near Santa Rosa so I should have pictures posted from that soon as well.
Montana De Oro
More vacation pictures, on our way back up the coast we stopped and stayed the night at Montana Del Oro, a beautiful state park on the south end of Morro Bay. We spent some time at the tide pools and beaches, and we also got plenty of mountain biking in. Montana Del Oro pictures.
Vacation
Update : Photos and a partial ride report for the Cannell Plunge are up
What an incredible week. I started out on Saturday with a 25 mile ride in Auburn with Kevin, we started in the ravine and rode up the Clementine Lake trail to the newly opened Clementine-Foresthill Divide Connector trail (which is a great trail by itself) around Foresthill Divide and back down the Tunnel Trail. Somehow we did the ride 1 1/2 hours faster than when we did the same ride in the fall.
On Sunday we drove to Yosemite and hiked up about 1200 feet to the Yosemite Falls Overlook. That hike really kicked my butt. We have tons of pictures from Yosemite and I will post them as soon as possible.
After taking it relatively easy on Monday I hooked up with Steve Wolf yesterday for a ride out of Kernville (East of Bakersfield) called the Cannell Plunge. Char drove us to the top so I have some shuttle karma I need to work off but it was worth it. 25+ miles with 2500 ft of climbing (at 9000′ your feel every foot of it) and a whooping 8000′ of descending down some absolutely incredible singletrack. The final 6000′ of the descending is done on the last 8 miles of trail… This ride was incredible.
Fort Ord (Sea Otter Racecourse)
Steve Wolf and I cruised down to Monterey to check out the Sea Otter Classic Racecourse on the old Fort Ord land. I guess it’s a few weeks to late to catch the race but we did find many miles of fun singletrack.
Henry Coe
I finally have the pictures up and my ride report from the Henry Coe ride I did a few weeks ago with the Trogs. Henry Coe is a beautiful park with miles and miles of great singletrack. This park is in the coastal mountain range and there is a ton of climbing so be prepared and get the topographic maps of the area. It also gets very hot in the summer time so bring plenty of water.
I just finished a great ride with Steve Wolf at Fort Ord. I took tons of pictures so I should have a ride report and pictures for Fort Ord, including the Sea Otter Classic course, very soon.
Ancient Ogrehut
Ancient Ogrehut History. Imported as one big post because I’m too lazy to import them individually. Many of the links don’t work and I’m not going to fix them at this point.