Author: Ogre

Lyons Lake

A simple trip with the family, we took Liz and Sylvia up to Lyon’s Lake for a short warm up ride before our Washington Vacation. Not many pictures, but it’s a ride report. It’s not that I haven’t been riding, I have been riding a lot, it’s that I’ve been lazy.
On top of this I rode two great new trails in the Sonora area, Pinball and Hammil Canyon to Pinecrest Peak Downhill. I didn’t bring my camera so the links point to pictures which George da trog took (trogs).
Over the next couple of weeks I will be riding the “Iron Horse Trail” in Washington. In case you can’t guess from the name it’s a Rails-to-Trails type trail so it’s not very technical but it does have some cool factors.
In the first place the trail is 110 miles long. I hope to ride 50 miles with the kids but we shall see how that works. There are some railroad trestles, and several tunnels including the Snoqualamie Tunnel which is 2.3 miles long !! That’s 30 minutes plus of underground fun. We are bringing the lights for the bikes.
We are also certain to hit a lot of the touristy type places along the way so expect some of those sort of pictures as well.

Post Ride Cooldown

The weekend I did two great rides in Sonora near Lyons Lake. On Saturday it was trogs style with George and Joseph we climbed up near Crandell Peak and rode down the trail called Pinball. It was an incredible ride with some rugged ‘extreme’ terrain and some wild geology gave the trail a unique feel. Check out the pictures and ride report which George posted.

On Sunday it was a Mothersday ride with Fiona and the kids. We returned to Lyons Lake but we took it easy and did 8 miles along the railroad grade plus a tiny bit of the Powerline trail.

Both days required a Post ride cool down at the base of the Lyon’s Lake Dam:

Mickey Mouse Closed?

Originally posted by memine on mtbr

“Some news for you: I received an email from a visitor to the Darrington Trail (aka Salmon Falls). He had never ridden there before and was in search of the Mickey Mouse Trail and Flagstaff Trail. Well he found them both along with the landowner of the private property that these trails cross. Yes, indeed these two trails are on private property. Chris Marney tells me that the State Park property stops at 200 feet above the lake level (high water mark I suspect).

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Climbing _Oat Hill_ Mine Road

Just north of Napa outside the town of Calistoga sits one of the coolest, least known mountain bike trails in Northern California. Oat Hill Mine trail starts just outside of Calistoga and climbs up to the Palisades. This trail has some of the best technical climbing in Northern California. There is also a huge section of technical trails at the top of the ride. The ride report is old but you can Check out the Pictures from our ride last weekend.