Another beautiful morning to ride. 8 miles and 1500 feet up, with 1000 total elevation change, total of 16 miles & 2000 feet climbing. I love this trail, its sweet struggle over a rough jeep trail. Lots of work moving your bike around and staying balanced, constantly have to adjust to the next rock and they all move under you.

Bob (chongoman), Ray, and Joe (theFuzz), we got rolling around 7:15.

and promptly saw some wild horses.

The trail is all double track, which makes it nice and social too. Lots of extended sections of loose rocks. Ray rode strong today.

A video of the nasty descent. I got going sideways a couple times on this but managed to stay up.

Doh! Joe was not so lucky.

I’ve totally fallen here before, Beckie took the worst face plant I’ve ever seen her take here.

I got in zone after this and felt really strong finishing the climb, it was sweet to have strength in the second half. Could have been the more social pace, but GnR’s “You Could Be Mine” followed by Audioslave’s “I Am the Highway” helped the motivation a lot.

View of Flatiron from the top.

the ride out, much faster, bombing through the loose rock to get up the next roller.

The trail changed since the last time and I think it was easier (if that can be said). Last time was in late summer after some rough storms and there were washes you almost couldnt ride across cause of deep sand and some big rock piles lining them, and I rode w Dustin Wardle who crushed me like a bug on his SS no less. Don’t friggin care, I felt great and had a lot of fun. I hammered through the descent and felt really good on all the babyheads. Still had to save myself a couple times, this trail can be pretty relentless. The last 3 miles out were fast and a great exuberant way to finish.