its alot longer than that, try like 3 hours (its very technical, tight switchbacks, etc). you need to train for this ride, you are pushing up a bike 8000, even hiking it alone is alot harder than climbing whitney and now try adding on pushing a bike the whole way. i'm a strong rider and i start...
i'm the one that wrote the above post about biking c2c. i think i might be the only one to do the whole thing as a 9 hour hike-a-bike up, then 4 hour descent. its a wild one. its the greatest descent around, maybe in all of cali.
ps. oh yea, i've also biked down the PCt from san jac to 10...
don't forget about peru, probably the best place in south america to ride. has singletrack descents of 12,000 feet. many many 5000-6000 foot descents. epic riding for sure.
good post.
old man trial at somo is a wild one. it thought its the wildest trail i have ridden there, good stuff (more intense than holbert, gernonimo, mormem). pretty technical like goat camp, alittle more steep/slidy at portions.
that park looks kinda fun, but sure is a long way off from actual mountian biking! any park around here will have very small vertical change, bummer. ha one dude here even said he would drive/pay if its like whistler, no sh##t! (good luck with that, you know any 3500 foot mountians around with...
yea, kick his ass (kidding). this thread is like our personel email threads planning rides, funny. any of you dudes hit up the ladder we built on the trail up top?
zach
you and your boyz throw it down killer. i'm curious, how often you ride a regular freeride type of bike, just flowing a standard DH type of trail, rock gardens, drops, high speed etc. or is that alittle too mundane fcompared to those size jumps?
looking at gutsploder, there is 8 different "mountians" to ride.
cypress, fromme,seymore, eagle, burke, woodlot, vedder, sumas.
dam i would love to explore them all, only hit the 1st 3.
yea, you gotta be on your game for bell ridge, not for the casual rider. its a LONG grind up with many hike-a-bike sections. the full loops usually tkaes up 6 hours. los pinos is even longer, ~7 hours with no shuttle (i will shuttle that one!). i just did joplin, STT, luge on sat.
correct. i like long backcountry epic technical descents. my top 5 stana ana mountian trails are
1. bell ridge
2. coldwater
3. los pinos
4. joplin
5. san juan+chiquito
san juan is anything but a hardcore downhill trail. just about all of it is very smooth, hardly any rocks. you could clean this thing on a kmart bike. now a real backcountry trail is right next to it, los pinos!
some people actually like to get lot of exercise while riding. i have climbed noble twice in one day on a 41 pound bike.
to me, noble is fun, but vastly overated. many flat sections, its an XC cruiser ride.
yea it is a joke people shuttle TW (i'm not opposed to shuttling in general). but for TW, classic. i always beat the shuttlers riding from the bottom when they shuttle. it is a joke to shuttle, the descents last 2 minutes, drive 10 minutes way around. it takes 10-15 minutes to climb that place.
i'm just passing this along (from MTBR thread). i'm the last person to preach, but just wanted to let folks know what is going on. below is what someone posted, this spot could see its days numbered, some fences are already up.
again, not preaching, but it doesn't help to have an organized...
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