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International Mountain Goat Climbing & Bar Conference - Day 2

TreeSaw

Mama Monkey
Oct 30, 2003
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Dancin' over rocks n' roots!
Day 2:
Sunday brought blueberry pancakes, sausage and more delicious coffee from Ito for our pre-ride wrenching. We stumble onto the trails a little later than planned and already we’re being eaten by the mosquitoes, but we still manage a fun loop and playing on some rocks and bridges along the way.

Climbing a little section of trail…Isa, Echo & Echo watchin’ TreeSaw.




SMBA has some AWESOME rocks to play on:
Riding the spine on Bee (camera men beware…you can fall too): Echo & Isa



Isa riding down a roller into a stream crossing with TreeSaw & Deyv coaching her down:


This particular rock is nearly vertical, but we proved it’s climb-able!
Deyv:


Ito catchin’ air on the way up:



A view from the top of the rock:


Sq-Earl:


Deyv negoting a drop:


Our new rock-bridge! First across Echo, Isa & then TreeSaw:




More rocks to play on! Sq-Earl showing off the line followed by Ito & Deyv.





Echo taking in the scenery shortly before his fall:


Unfortunately, I don’t have pics of Echo’s new smile courtesy of his fight with the tree limb…trust me it was rather nasty looking so the pics would have been graphic. Deyv & Isa do have a pic of the stitch work though so we’ll be sure to put it up.

An awesome weekend for sure and for our guests, I am sure it was a long ride home. Keep it between the ditches ;)
 

HypNoTic

Man Whore
Aug 3, 2004
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Great pics! Looks like you really had a blast despite the level of "hike a bike" in some sections.

@Echo, I wish you a speedy recovery. Deyv show me the pics and I must admit that your new "crooked smile" is something!
 

Goddy43

Monkey
Apr 21, 2005
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Is that rock bridge on ridgeline? I haven't see that yet but it looks great from the pictures.
 

Deyv

Deyvil
Mar 26, 2002
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Montreal
Hi Guys,

We had a blast riding with you guys.

Here's the trip report I did for AllezY.net (some pictures are the same)

Last weekend, Isa and me took a break of trailbuilding for the ADSVMQ and went riding with our buddies down in New York State.



Earl and Teresa live just on the other side of the magnificent mountains of the Adirondaks in the area of Saratoga. We met up with Echo, Douglas and Ito for a ride at Spier falls on the saturday. It was planned as a epic ride and it was!



We started up at the very bottom this time so we had a lot of climbing to do. Some very technical climbing with many big dead trees to hop or to go under





The climb really killed us because there was quite a bit of hike a bike, well except for Earl who can levitate up any walls of rock!



Ito and Douglas were riding 29" singlespeed even though they have been warned it was not a singlespeed friendly ride




After more thant a hour of hard climbing we got to the top part and started to have fun on the rocks.



We did the very remote "Blue loop". It was a blast to ride this wild trail with the incredible scenery




So wild in fact that we saw a owl.



As if riding a 29 inch full rigid singlespeed was not enough, Ito did a bit of bouldering with SPDs shoes!



At the very top of the yellow loop we had a super duper view



After 5 hours of riding, we finally saw the rock foundation that ment that we were close to the end of this Epic ride







In the evening, we hung out at Earl and Teresa new home made bar, great job Earl!



The next day, we rode on the more flowy trails of Skidmore. Theses trails are made and maintained by the Saratoga Mountainbike club.



These trails are such a blast, technical enough to give a challenge but totally rideable.




Earl and Me found a cute little drop in the middle of the trail that was quite fun to ride. It was my first drop since my knee accident, I was quite please to be able to land without my knee hurting





We had been on the trails 3 years ago and I remembered a crazy rock garden that defeated me. Earl showed me again how easy it was to clear it.



I made it further this year but still could not clear it after 10 trys. I will see you next year Rock Garden!



Towards the end of the ride, something bad happened, Echo crash and landed on a piece of log with his face first. The stump of a branch went through his cheek and he ended up with 20 stiches. We hope you heal well John and that you are back on the bike in no time!



We had a awesome time with everyone. A big thanks to Earl and Teresa for their warm welcome.
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
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ouch...

change echos title to the black dahlia.

nice pics.
 

Echo

crooked smile
Jul 10, 2002
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Slacking at work
I watched Pan's Labyrinth the other night just for fun.

Thanks again everyone for helping get me fixed up. I have the best friends on the planet :)
 

McGRP01

beer and bikes
Feb 6, 2003
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Portland, OR
Nice writeup Deyv! Sorry I was not able to ride with you guys while you were down our way. I'm looking forward to riding with you and Isa again at Monkeyfest! :thumb: