http://ogrehut.com Mountain Biking Northern California Tue, 13 May 2008 02:45:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en End of April 2008: Here are the most recent photos taken 4/26/08. The snowpack is between 2-5ft. depending on sun exposure. This includes from Berger Campground to Butcher trail. Our estimated time for shuttling is still Memorial Day weekend. For more info check out the Downieville Outfitters Trail Conditions page. http://ogrehut.com/20080507/downieville-snow-melt-conditions-report I don't race much, the plan is 2 races this year, the Lemurian and this last weekend the Coolest 24. For some reason 24 hour races are a fascination with me. The last few years I've done 4 man and 5 man team 24 Hour events. ... http://ogrehut.com/20080505/coolest-24-race-report Well long delayed but here are my pictures from Easter this year. Try out the slide show or you can go to the regular Gallery Page. http://ogrehut.com/20080407/easter-2008 Well my web host's performance has been quite disappointing lately and I've gotten quite frustrated with it so I decided this last time the host just slowed to a crawl for a day solid to just switch web hosts. We'll see how this one works out. Right now ... http://ogrehut.com/20080405/performance-downtime-etc One of the Premier MTB races in Northern California the Lemurian Classic is a great race held annually in June. There is a long course which is a single 26 mile long lap, a shorter 20 mile loop, and the beginners loop is 8 miles. There is no ... http://ogrehut.com/20080328/grass-roots-racing-shasta-lemurian-classic For people in the South Bay area, you can head down to Fort Ord for a series of 9 weekend races (3 races are over already). These are put on by Central Coast Cyclo Cross (CCCX) and you can find a schedule of events here. There is racing ... http://ogrehut.com/20080324/grass-roots-racing-tbf-racing-and-cccx I don't race much, but there are a few races which I enjoy. These are generally the sort of grass roots or fund raising events where the fees are usually low and the atmosphere is generally awesome. I'm going to try and report on all the local/grass roots ... http://ogrehut.com/20080313/grass-roots-racing-prarie-city-race-series Over on MTBR I stumbled across a thread with a fairly decent map of some of the trails near Folsom.   Mostly just Dike 8 and some of the surrounding El Dorado Hills area urban trails.  I don't consider these to be destination trails but they are great for people that ... http://ogrehut.com/20080312/folsom-dike-8-trails So after a bit of a break from updating the site Fiona has goaded me into action again.  Strangely the update I worked on first is completely un-ridable right now since it's under 12"+ of snow.  However since Fiona is the one who prodded me into working on the site ... http://ogrehut.com/20080219/back-in-the-swing Well, with the first real rain comes the change in the riding seasons. Now it's time to break out the winter weather gear. I'm not looking forward to cold, wet rides on one hand, but at least I can get in some riding. Every year I have ... http://ogrehut.com/20071027/a-change-in-seasons