Go forth and ride, then bring back pics

[GeorgiaSnow]

Got to get out to Walker Ranch and Betasso Preserve during the week. Thanks again to those who gave some direction. Was fun riding some very different terrain.


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[tgapp]

the Wasatch is all time right now. holy shit.

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[alpinevibes]

Flowers still popping around here

[buttahflake]

From today in Western Mass. Greylock Vertical Challenge, 103 miles with a soul crushing 12,400’ of climbing. Felt good all day. 6:37:30,long day with incredible roads, low traffic, 70 degrees with low dewpoints. Perfect big ride weather.

Tallest point in Massachusetts, top of Greylock.

[biggins]

^^^ANIMAL! Well done, sir.

[buttahflake]

Thanks Big J!

[Dantheman]

As good as it ever gets in the Wasatch.

[snowaddict91]

[grskier]

That machine has to be tempting. After a couple weeks of healing my torn ac joint last year i managed to ride through recovery, albeit cautiously

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I blew out my shock… so, I’ll be on the gravel bike until I get that thing back.


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[hick]

You folks with the tacky dirt are killing me! We get rain and it’s hot and blown out in less than 24 hrs.
More exploring with my way better half.


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[homemadesalsa]

Nice @hick ! We'll get up to your neighborhood some day, I hope.

Here's one from my neighborhood today: tacky dirt, no smoke, finally not 90*.

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[snowaddict91]

Telluride or Bellingham?

[jummo]

Found this posted at my go to trailhead today.
I don't speak lawyer, bible, or random incoherence , so I'm not sure what it says.
Anyway, the ride was great, same as always and I'll be back tomorrow.

jummo

[climberevan]

^^Top quality WTF right there.

[rideit]

So, I had an imaginary dialogue with this healthy boy.
“Hey Moose, when ya gonna move?”, I says.
“Well”, he replied, “ to quote Paul Simon, ‘I’m taking my time, and I don’t know when’.”
“Fair enough”, I said. “Enjoy your dinner”.




I honestly almost ran up his tuchus.



But the rest of the ride was Oh. So. Choice.

[BobbyBill]

Sometimes dreams do come true....

[meter-man]

Generally speaking, I am very happy with the trail access we have here in California (Tahoe zona)...but then I see these above-treeline high mountain shots from MT and WA, and remember there AIN'T SHIT TO RIDE in the big mountains here in California. Sierra Club'd.

Glad they are protected, but wish there was MTB access in the high country. Not trying to start a "MTBs in Wilderness" debate...so please don't get up on your soapbox.

You folks with the tacky dirt are killing me! We get rain and it’s hot and blown out in less than 24 hrs.
More exploring with my way better half.


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Couple recent pics for my own contribution:


Cal Enduro Series race in Auburn


Confluence trail in auburn - practicing...


Pacifica - v impressive riding area.


From the house - Industrial Truckee


Plus my kids and snowymonk's at the Truckee bike park. Lucky lil rippers!

[hick]

Sometimes dreams do come true....

Ha! I thought those signs were a little over the top, but somebody in the ghetto must be illiterate because they keep riding their horse up the goddamn flow trail and we’re not even done with the top. So annoying.


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[Dantheman]

Post Canyon did not disappoint. Amazing trail building.

[ClarkleberryFinn]

Drove to Morzine in France weekend before last (if you don’t know it, it’s probably the biggest/most well known bikepark in Alps), and had one brilliant day exploring the blue and green lift-served trails around Pleney and Les Gets. Unfortunately that evening my gf's father had a cardiac arrest, so we had to rush back to Austria. Thankfully after a week in a medically-induced coma he is now awake and responsive and seems to be making really positive progress to a hopefully full recovery (fingers crossed , touch wood, etc).

We didn't really stop much for photos as we were having too much fun, but:





General impressions from Morzine in comparison to here in Austria:

1. The lift pass is incredibly good value and much cheaper than Austria, for many more trails. €30/day or €64 for 3 days. Here even in the smallest bike parks you'll be paying ~€40/day and €100+ for 3 days
2. So many lifts and trails!! Lots of variety, great shaping, hundreds of sculpted jumps and features if you're into that sort of thing. Really really really fun!
3. Most trails seem to be rather short in terms of vertical descent - I don't think there are many longer than around 600m vert? In eg. Sölden and Kitzbühel you can easily ride 1000m vert from one lift (or self pedal). I actually rode more vert in 3 hours in Sölden Bikepark than the whole day in Morzine
4. Way fewer people than I expected, even accounting for corona, but LOTS of Brits
5. Food and drink is 50-100% more expensive for comparable meals in comparable locations. €7.50 for a beer! I'm still shocked when a beer costs €5 in AT (even though that's not uncommon in the a grade resorts anymore), but at €7.50 it's actually kinda hard to enjoy a pint. Decent veggie meals were actually - surprisingly - harder to find than in AT, but we found a couple of good poke bowl type things - again notably more expensive than similar places here though.
6. Accommodation goes to lower prices at the budget end in Morzine (chalets etc seem great value if you have a big enough group), but for the same money the hotel will be significantly better in AT, and the room probably 2-3 times the size with proper thickness walls and much more comfortable fittings/be somewhere you don't mind hanging out for a couple of hours for the rain to stop etc rather than literally just be somewhere to sleep and shower.
7. The bakery in Morzine had much better sandwiches (than places like Ruetz in Austria) for very reasonable prices, so easy to just take a delicious baguette up for lunch on the hill. Plus pain aux raisins - was WAY too long since I last enjoyed that deliciousness!
8. The village felt very 'resort-ified' (more so than I remembered from winter trips around 10 years or so ago), compared to somewhere like Saalbach which actually still feels like a real village just with fun stuff tacked on above (both WAY nicer than somewhere like Sölden though). Pros and cons to both approaches, neither really better than the other and more down to personal taste.
9. Bikepark/lift-access season is much shorter in Morzine, probably 3 months shorter. Not sure if that's to avoid conflict with other tourism, like hiking? Or hunting?



Look forward to going back and seeing more of the area!

[ClarkleberryFinn]

Then whilst at my gf's family's place in Windischgarsten (Oberösterreich), we did some more biking, mostly just gravel road fitness stuff to keep gf sane and clear heads. Finishing with cool-down dips in the beautiful Gleinkersee:



I also tried out the local bike park for a couple of hours, Wurbauerkogel, 5 mins pedal from the house. It's a tiny little hill, only about 200m vert, with one old 'dinner plate style' chairlift serving both the bike park and the alpine coaster/walkers:





Obviously a completely different scale to somewhere like Morzine or Saalbach, but it's quite amazing just how much cool stuff they've managed to pack into one small hill. 'Klein aber Fein' sums it up.

Blue is pure flow, red trails are mostly flow but with a few fast chunky sections and jumps/side hits mixed in, and possible to combine different sections/trails around the middle of the hill to mix things up. Plus the famous wall ride, which is a bit too big for me!





I also tried the bottom half of the black. You get a good view of various bits from the lift, and it is genuinely steep and rough, with a Canada-style boulder/slab roll in near the start. The Austrian DH Champs have been held on it a few times. At some point I'll try the whole thing, but didn't seem like the right time to risk and injury... The bottom part looks like this basically the whole way, but with a few steps/drops thrown in and a lot steeper than the photo shows:

[rudy]

[grinch]

Smoke cleared a fair bit after we had a little precip. That was nice. It was getting pretty sketchy in the interior.Fingers crossed the precip.in our forecast pans out
Back to the alpine to escspe the heat

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[buttahflake]

From this evening in central Vermont, perfect weather.

[Falcon3]

Butte has some nice singletrack! Putting the Butte 50/100 on my must-do list.