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Ft. Ord Public Lands-56k beware

bdamschen

Turbo Monkey
Nov 28, 2005
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Spreckels, CA
Had two short after work rides, to break in my girlfriend's new bike. We headed out to some of the old sea otter trails behind Laguna Seca since they're only about 10 mins from my house.

We parked over by Toro Creek Estates and climbed up Guidoutti Rd. to Skyline. Some people always look at me like I'm nuts on my ~45lb Faith when we're out climbing, but now they throw half those funny looks at my girl too. Here she is on her first climb w/ a 40 lb bike :)


The view going up


Once we got to the top, we took Skyline Rd. over to trail 47. It drops behind the back straight away at Laguna Seca and is super flowy with some whoops thrown in for good measure. Sorry about the blurry pics, she kept catching back up to me faster than I thought.


Little bit of air on the new bike


Summer time after work riding when the sun gets low and the shadows get long is freaking awesome.


More trail 47..


She's a better picture taker than I am





Our next after work ride had us leaving from Toro estates again and heading up Trail 45 to Oil Well Rd. All that rain durning sea otter got the grass growing pretty good.






Am I peeing or just chillin there? You'll never know...


Crossing over to oil well rd.


We then took trail 10 over to trail 41, also known as the Goat Trail. It also has some really fun and smooth decending. There's me waaaaay up there comming down.


Railing a corner on her new bike


It not crazy gnar or insane rock gardens, but still really fun. And now that my g/f has something with a bit more travel, I've got another riding buddy for the chair lifts this summer :cool:
 

pixelninja

Turbo Monkey
Jun 14, 2003
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Denver, CO
DRB said:
Nice. It would be nice to ride some wideopen smooth singletrack like that from time to time. Not even sure I'd know how to act.
Yeah, that looks like nothing we have here. Nice pictures!
 

bdamschen

Turbo Monkey
Nov 28, 2005
3,377
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Spreckels, CA
splat said:
Nice pics .

I see you standing in all that tall grass , all I can think is tick city !

Yep, and I was godzilla!

Heh, my girl was yelling about the same thing. Some how I managed not to get any.


Wide open singletrack is fun, you just pin it and hold on. It does get a little more twisty and rough after, but not too much.
 

James

Carbon Porn Star
Sep 11, 2001
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Danbury, CT
Jeez, it makes me think I need to get out there more often. Maybe this weekend since I'll be going in for knee surgery on Wednesday...
I've been here for a while, but I haven't ridden too much in Fort Ord. Have spent most of my miles up in Santa Cruz. Though the East Garrison gate is about 3 miles from my house.
Plus, I'm building a bike for my girlfriend...
Hmm...