Sunday, December 31, 2006

Ride Baby, Ride

Some quick thoughts on October's mountain biking trip.

Wow! 80 miles of singletrack with my buddies "Racer X" and "Tinker" was awesome. We wound up riding some extremely sick fun trails up on the Umpqua River. We even had the campsite to ourselves save for some occasional elk and a few retirees that pulled through. Granted it was a little cool (in the 20's in the am) but it warmed up just fine for the rides.

The trails were a ton of fun. Narrow single that danced up and down the face of the river banks steep canyon face. At times we were inches from the rushing river and other times found us climbing or descending 100-300 feet or more above it. All on a combination of nicely technical or undulating bubble gum track.

The videws were awesome. The rides were worth the trip up the long highway, and the time with the boys worth every bit of the sweat they soaked out of me.


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