Rode a new-to-me trail today. It branches off a heavily used route, but involves a big hike-a-bike to a pass to get into the valley where the trail goes through. Not many people ride it. Pretty awesome alpine riding though, sometimes the trail was 6" wide, sometimes a foot, rocks, some good tech descent sections, etc. Would hit again.
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Up in Vermont for the weekend with the wife and kid. So of course had to bring my bike and get in a ride with some Ridemonkey friends. We hit up Sherburne Trails in Killington.
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Last day of riding in Quebec. 
Decided for more Saint Anne. The trails here are so damn fast and gnarly. Fucking awesome. Just get that damn gondola fixed...
Went mach 11 down the lower part of Vietnam down. Awesome section of trail, but my brakes didnt want to slow me down fast enough. Derp.
Decided for more Saint Anne. The trails here are so damn fast and gnarly. Fucking awesome. Just get that damn gondola fixed...
Went mach 11 down the lower part of Vietnam down. Awesome section of trail, but my brakes didnt want to slow me down fast enough. Derp.
Always seems like my schralp track is less impressive than I would've expected after "being totally sideways, bro"
Need more side knob action.
Always seems like my schralp track is less impressive than I would've expected after "being totally sideways, bro"
Fight club today, 25 miles, 5200ft vert, most of it spent above 10k, a good chunk of it above 12k, out there for 6h50m. I may not move from the sofa again today.
^^^ that's a chicken dinner right there.
^^^ nice
this would have been a ‘high country’ ride, but no way was I gonna partake Riding alone in the most serious Bad-bear country in the lower 48. i came up with the word Bearanoia...
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Hi folks, been a while. Dumping some biking photos from my recent vacation.
Thunder Mountain trail in Panguitch, UT. It's right next to Bryce Canyon National Park.
Rode in North Powder (Baker City), OR with my buddy Beardo. At the top of Elkhorn Crest trail.
Camped on n the shore of Great Salt Lake one evening, and saw this little arch while riding around dirt roads.
Thunder Mountain trail in Panguitch, UT. It's right next to Bryce Canyon National Park.
Rode in North Powder (Baker City), OR with my buddy Beardo. At the top of Elkhorn Crest trail.
Camped on n the shore of Great Salt Lake one evening, and saw this little arch while riding around dirt roads.
And some hiking (and kayaking) photos
Cosmic Ashtray near Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah. A bowl of white-ish lime stone about the size of a small amphitheater that somehow got filled with red sand. Not sure why but it's not listed as a part of the national monument. Pretty tough hike - I got lost and ended up wandering around the desert for 12 miles total. I don't recommend doing it in the middle of the summer like I did.
Tule Valley Hardpan in Utah. The mountain peak in distance is Notch Peak, the second tallest cliff in 'murica. I guess you can hike up it, but I have acrophobia so I settled on drinking beer at the summit of the highest island on this dry lake.
This boulder is located a mile above the old town site of Iosepa, UT, where OG LDS Hawaiians lived in the late 1800s to early 1900s. They left some petroglyphs on this rock.
A screen shot of a video from when Beardo and I tried some white water kayaking in a rental tandem. He somehow managed to stay on it.
Cosmic Ashtray near Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah. A bowl of white-ish lime stone about the size of a small amphitheater that somehow got filled with red sand. Not sure why but it's not listed as a part of the national monument. Pretty tough hike - I got lost and ended up wandering around the desert for 12 miles total. I don't recommend doing it in the middle of the summer like I did.
Tule Valley Hardpan in Utah. The mountain peak in distance is Notch Peak, the second tallest cliff in 'murica. I guess you can hike up it, but I have acrophobia so I settled on drinking beer at the summit of the highest island on this dry lake.
This boulder is located a mile above the old town site of Iosepa, UT, where OG LDS Hawaiians lived in the late 1800s to early 1900s. They left some petroglyphs on this rock.
A screen shot of a video from when Beardo and I tried some white water kayaking in a rental tandem. He somehow managed to stay on it.
Not as great as you'd think. Once the snow melts, it's just nasty mud, as it dries out, there's a short window where you can ride and it's not crazy overgrown. Right now, most of that stuff is like the jungle and you can't even see the trail on some of the routes. We don't have that many trails either, so it gets kind of old. That last ride was nice because I rode a new-to-me trail. There was about a 800' vert hike-a-bike up the side of the valley to get up on the trail, but it was worth it. Down lower though, same overgrown mess. There's a short window in the fall when the vegetation has frozen and fallen over, before it snows, that's also decent, but in general we need more trails badly. Just above the city we have a huge amount of state forest, but no trails that mtbs can ride. I'l getting pretty sick of fighting the undergrowth crap in the summer in the CNF and if you rub up against the cow parsnip in the sunlight, it can cause chemical burns that make poison oak look like a walk in the park. There are a couple really good rides...but they get old.
Fun fact. A glacial arm of the Puget lobe pushed up into this valley creating a ridge moraine that is the source of gravel in that mine. Alpine glaciers from the north and east fork of the snoqualmie pushed back from the other side.
A bike was actually used for this one. Not as spicy as I would prefer, but still rehabing.
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Gorgeous shot!
Got turned around on this last year due to water too deep/fast where the trail crosses a waterfall. Luckily the water was way down, but the morning dew got me totally soaked on the way up and it was getting cold. Once breaking out at the pass, temp shot up to around 80. I love riding in the alpine. I hate riding to the alpine.
Thanks man. I was actually surprised when I uploaded it to my 27" iMac as it was taken with the iPhone 11. Haven't been too impressed with apple cameras and hope to take a dedicated advanced point and shoot on my thru hike next year.
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A gear suggestion if I may. Since I started researching and testing gear for thru hiking I've found a few areas where mountain biking and hiking overlap. One of those is rain gear. There are ultralight rain jackets marketed only towards hikers that are very compact, taking up little space in your pack. Mine can be used both for hiking and riding. It's silly lite, small, but has no hand pockets or pit zips. I use it more for heat retention than rain. Works excellent for both hiking and riding.
I'm way ahead of you. I do that kind of stuff all the time. Mainly, my fingers got cold, but that's cuz raynauds. I use chem-heaters for that and I bring extra gloves (since they get soaked on the way up). Close to the summit, I'll pop some of the foot-heaters and stuff them in the extra gloves. Then at the top, I have nice toasty warm dry gloves for my hands. I have a variety of packable jackets I take, depending on the situation. Since today's forecast was totally clear and warm, I took a lighter non-waterproof jacket. I use to have the helium pictured, but the zipper broke and there's no way to re-attach it due to how they designed it (you can't put a paperclip through it, etc.). I took it back to REI and got a patagonia instead, works better. I also wear claped out lake 302s so my feet stay pretty dry, although today I was stepping in the waterfall and got them a bit wet, was warmer by then. I like the lakes for DH stuff, since they are pretty flexible and not rigid like more winter type shoes. Also brought a base-layer type shirt which I switched out to at the summit, since my short sleeve jersey was soaked through.A gear suggestion if I may. Since I started researching and testing gear for thru hiking I've found a few areas where mountain biking and hiking overlap. One of those is rain gear. There are ultralight rain jackets marketed only towards hikers that are very compact, taking up little space in your pack. Mine can be used both for hiking and riding. It's silly lite, small, but has no hand pockets or pit zips. I use it more for heat retention than rain. Works excellent for both hiking and riding.
It was pretty extreme though, going up it was in the shade, tons of dew everywhere, just getting completely soaked and air temp was in the 50s, not warm with the sun hidden. Then you break out at the summit, way above and BAM, the sun is just blasting at around 80 degrees. I put a light jacket on for the descent, but ended up taking it off after a mile. Just didn't need it. So radically different going down the same trail I had just gone up. Our sun angle does funny things. I was totally happy how I prepared and planned for this. Sometimes I just don't know what's going to happen, so I take everything under the sun. Sometimes it's just a calculated risk, when I know it's going to get warm later on.
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Had to look up raynauds, sounds fun. Both my hands and feet sweat a lot so sometimes I won't wear gloves on really long climbs so they stay dry or take an extra pair. Nothing like putting on a fresh pair of gloves at the top of a decent when the temps are cooler.
Last time I headed up to do a solo Pisgah epic I took my thru hiking water filter kit so I didn't have to haul 3 L of water on my back. Stopped by a creek got water and had lunch. I like doing all day solo rides in the mountains, but you gotta carry a lot of stuff if you want to be prepared.