Go forth and ride, then bring back pics

[jamal]

Good amount of road riding this year and not nearly enough skiing. Did get out on the mtb the other day although there's not much to ride yet





be cool if i could get my shock back from fox for the other bike or at least what i need to finish rebuilding the dropper for this one. Should probably buy some new tires too.

[springsproject]

Just moved into a new place. Tons of gravel and singletrack right from the door.

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[skinipenem]

Just moved into a new place. Tons of gravel and singletrack right from the door.

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Nice pics. Looks beautiful

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[parkmeister]

Spring is just around the corner. Middle Fork of the American River, Auburn, CA.

[sfotex]

Had a bizness trip to Vegas, so I brought the bike along. Left Salt Lake Saturday and hit Jems up really quick that night then went to Gooseberry the next day.

[sfotex]

After a couple of days of Vegas I was ready to get the hell out of there. Headed down to Kingman to check stuff out. Trails were fun and the local at the trail were friendly, but damn, that place is truck stop the town. Head back to Boulder City to check out Bootleg Canyon the next day. Neat little town, I will be back. Wish I had more bike for Bootleg + the wind was howling, so I kept to the more sheltered tails.
I wanted to check out Caliente, but the weather was going to be crappy so I just headed home. Next month maybe..

[sfotex]

one more....

[raisingarizona13]

After a couple of days of Vegas I was ready to get the hell out of there. Headed down to Kingman to check stuff out. Trails were fun and the local at the trail were friendly, but damn, that place is truck stop the town. Head back to Boulder City to check out Bootleg Canyon the next day. Neat little town, I will be back. Wish I had more bike for Bootleg + the wind was howling, so I kept to the more sheltered tails.
I wanted to check out Caliente, but the weather was going to be crappy so I just headed home. Next month maybe..

Did you go into the down town historic district in Kingman? It's really nice but the outskirts and zones right off the exits are pretty rough. You should have hit me up. There's some new stuff out on Monolith that is really fun. Check the trail building forum for my latest post.

[MarcusBrody]

After a couple of days of Vegas I was ready to get the hell out of there. Headed down to Kingman to check stuff out. Trails were fun and the local at the trail were friendly, but damn, that place is truck stop the town. Head back to Boulder City to check out Bootleg Canyon the next day. Neat little town, I will be back. Wish I had more bike for Bootleg + the wind was howling, so I kept to the more sheltered tails.
I wanted to check out Caliente, but the weather was going to be crappy so I just headed home. Next month maybe..

Heh, my house is a tiny spec in this picture. Next time you're back, feel free to send me a PM if you want a riding buddy.

[MarcusBrody]

Continuing the Bootleg stoke, my son took his new bike out for the first time tonight. We played around on the pump track then did what's probably the easiest trail in the system. It has some parts that were a bit sketchy for him on his 20in rigid that were fun and basically trivial on the new bike, so I hope that it opens up a few more trail options for him in town. Right now, we mostly go to Henderson's trails when we ride together (the trail system there has expanded a lot though, so sfotex, if you're ever stuck in Vegas again, it's another one to hit up. Trail Mix is a current favorite).



Edit: How are TGR forums worse with photo orientation than any other system I've ever encountered?

[Skistack]

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[Touring_Sedan]

Soon.

[evdog]

[tBatt]

Had a bizness trip to Vegas, so I brought the bike along. Left Salt Lake Saturday and hit Jems up really quick that night then went to Gooseberry the next day.

I rode through here this morning. Kinda funny how someone left an entire patio set up there. I thought it had came out of the van parked next to it but my buddy said he saw it there over a month ago.

[wkd-rdr]

[evdog]

Wednesday stoke from the last couple weeks

First up was Iron Mtn. Always a good techy challenge. Everything on the descent is rideable though it changes with storms and how wise you are with line choices.

[evdog]

This week was Ellie Lane. While Iron is one of our highest traffic hiker trails, Ellie is one of the lowest. A bit strange since they are right next to each other. But Iron is a summit and Ellie *just* goes over a couple saddles.

We used to do them together as one ride, but Ellie has gotten ugly. Neither is a trail you want to ride tired, so we left Ellie for a separate ride.


It's the same climb up for either ride. This week, with snakes





Lots of dirt has been washed away in the last two winters' storms so moves that were tough have now become intimidating and others have become unrideable without solid trials skills. Scouting ahead is mandatory




And there is no warmup. We get straight into two features with tough entries and consecutive drops while turning. And wheel catchers if you get off line






The land manager loves to use wood beams for erosion control which just get undercut, forming big drops underneath. This one still rideable




Nice roller avoiding the eroded trail channel




This turn required a nose pick at the apex to hop the rear wheel around




More ugliness. There used to be only a few sections that stood out as really challenging. Now most of the trail was sketchy




A few fun moves followed




And then back into the chunk




A stout hike a bike over the second saddle followed, after which the trail got nicer. Still chunky and challenging but almost continuously rideable since it has seen some maintenance








Fun ride and by far the most challenging I've done in a long time. 6 miles in 4 hrs.

Wish I lived closer so I could work on it but this one is a haul to get to

[hick]

^^Oh man, that looks fun!!!

Still a ways out here, but primo fat conditions yesterday morning.


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[evdog]

Posted this in the dig stoke thread, but should put it here too. Just finished building a new trail the other day and have gotten in a few laps on it now. Pretty fun. It's short but you get no breaks between features.




Bonus footage - I ran the go pro down another trail I hadn't been on in a while. This one sucked for a long time but has seen a bunch of recent work and now it's pretty fun.

[parkmeister]

From the fall of 2023 in the Truckee/Tahoe area:

[Iowagriz]

Cool little spin near Newport, Oregon. Used Strava to find some trails above the city water facility. Then along the waterfront and along the jetty.

[The Reverend Floater]

Took the 8 year old through Fruita on our spring break road trip. Staying at Chez Particle, which is rad and I highly recommend it. Having a house to use in Fruita is pretty damned nice.

She got her first mountain bike late last summer but didn't do too many single tracks...mainly learned basics, how to shift, etc. while riding dirt roads.

We started her day with two laps on Kessel Run on 18 Road which was perfect. She loved it, had a few rodeos but hung on. The rain rolled in so we went home, then headed out to the Kokapeli area late in the afternoon, complete with cool temps but sunshine.

We did Rustler's loop and she crushed--pedalled through all the rock stuff, did a really good job of picking her lines on the go and never crashed. It was super fun seeing her confidence and skills grow as the day went on, crescendoing when she was singing to herself on Rustler's while cruising through the micro technical stuff and happily rolling off the little ledges. She was really proud of herself which makes me really happy.

The mission was to get her stoked on MTB and it was a very strong success.

Back to 18 Rd tomorrow for chutes and ladders...

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[Roxtar]

Took the 8 year old through Fruita on our spring break road trip. Staying at Chez Particle, which is rad and I highly recommend it. Having a house to use in Fruita is pretty damned nice.

She got her first mountain bike late last summer but didn't do too many single tracks...mainly learned basics, how to shift, etc. while riding dirt roads.

We started her day with two laps on Kessel Run on 18 Road which was perfect. She loved it, had a few rodeos but hung on. The rain rolled in so we went home, then headed out to the Kokapeli area late in the afternoon, complete with cool temps but sunshine.

We did Rustler's loop and she crushed--pedalled through all the rock stuff, did a really good job of picking her lines on the go and never crashed. It was super fun seeing her confidence and skills grow as the day went on, crescendoing when she was singing to herself on Rustler's while cruising through the micro technical stuff and happily rolling off the little ledges. She was really proud of herself which makes me really happy.

The mission was to get her stoked on MTB and it was a very strong success.

Awesome. Nice work. I'm finally getting my oldest son into mtb.
Of course he's 40 so slightly different.

[Norseman]

[Terrapin Ben]

Sawmill? I rode elsewhere in town on Saturday and the trails were straight up chocolate cake... yeah, brahs! get sum!