Pacheco Pass with the Trogs

This weekend turned into a fairly busy one ride wise for me, I got a solo ride in at Sweetwater on Friday, a trogs ride at Pacheco Pass also known as Dinosaur Point on Saturday, a family ride on Sunday, a commuter ride in on Monday, and a 5:30 AM ride today. Overall about 60 miles in 5 days, not a record setting week but not bad.

While at Dino Point I snapped plenty of pictures and wrote up a small ride report check them out here.

New Lake Hogan Pictures

I posted some new pictures showing a lot of the upper trails at Coyote Point at Lake Hogan. The upper trails are an entirely different beast than the lower trail at Hogan, there is a huge amount of steep climbing and tough rocky downhills. If you enjoy rocky technical trails then you will probably have fun here. If you don’t like steep technical climbs then stick to the lower trails.

I’m slipping, this has been posted for over a week with no link. Here is the Link

Salmon Falls

I am finally able to settle down to write the ride report for Saturday’s kick butt ride at Salmon Falls. We started the day with 5, Ogre, Fiona (my wife Char), George, Joseph, and Fred. Weather was overcast and a bit foggy which kept much of the moisture from the previous nights rain on the trail. Overall traction was pretty good though and standing water was only an issue on a few sections of Sweetwater. We did have a few steep spots which were pretty hairy due to slippery conditions though.

Check out the Ride Report and Pictures Here.

Night Rides

I went on a great ride the other day with some of the trogs. We went to New Melones (Glory Hole) which is usually a fairly boring ride, but as an added twist we rode it at night under a full moon. If you’ve never been on a night ride before I suggest you try it, it can make even the most tame trail a bit more adventerous.

Ride Reports are a bit slim right now because it’s tough getting to new places in the winter time.

New link for Prarie City Mountain Bike Races

Sometime in late summer/ early fall Brian Joder from Prairie City Mountain Bike Racing had his domain name stolen from him. Domain name theft really pisses me off, this also happened to Fatrac and to my site as well in the past. In any case, the new link is :

http://www.racemtbikes.com

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, the Prairie City Race Series is a Mountain bike racing series near Rancho Cordova. Go to their site and check it out.

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Flying

My flying lessons have been progressing pretty well, the biggest problem I’ve had so far has been getting landings down pat. For some reason I have problems with the idea of pointing the plane at the ground for the landing. Yesterday I think I finally got the nack of it though, I made 5 successful landings and 2 of them were almost perfect. More important I really got the feel for the landing procedure and it just felt right.