Archive for the 'Mountain Biking' Category
Tahoe Rim Trail
One of the things that we need to decide for our San Juan hut-to-hut trip is whether to use a trailer to bring our gear or to use panniers (basically bags that hang off the sides of the bike). Since Brian has both, we decided the best thing to do would be to simply try [...]
Gazos Creek (Big Basin)
We returned to Big Basin State Park today to ride the Gazos Creek trail. After getting lost the last time, we knew the trail much better this time around. We decided to go the same way by riding Middle Ridge Road again rather than just doing an out-and-back along Gazos Creek Road. The steep climbs [...]
Bolinas Ridge
We returned to Bolinas Ridge today, this time in much better riding shape. Whereas last time we only rode 9 miles or so, this time we did the full out-and-back which ended up being around 22.6 miles. The scenery wasn’t as green as it was just a few weeks ago, but we got to ride [...]
Bike Hooks
We currently have three bikes and although there is space for them in the garage, we don’t have a good way to store them and so they end up taking up a lot of space. Since our garage is pretty small to start with, this make it difficult to park a car in the garage. [...]
La Canada Road
Road biking is pretty popular up here and one of the cool things that the city/county does is to close off La Canada Road every Sunday for bikers. Even though the road is paved, it would be a good way for us to get some good miles in. We decided to check it out. We [...]
Gazos Creek (Big Basin)
Today, we rode the Gazos Creek trail at Big Basin State Park. According to our book, you can ride it as a 12.9-mile round trip loop with an optional 8.8-mile out-and-back for a total of 21.7 miles. Our plan was to see how we felt when we got to the out-and-back trail and then decide [...]
Water Dog Lake
Our goal is to ride at least once a week, and since we didnt’ have a whole lot of time this weekend, we decided to check out one of the local trails. Water Dog Lake Park is a wooded area near our house that’s close enough that we could ride to. Our book gave only [...]
Bolinas Ridge
Our hut-to-hut mountain trip at the end of August is fast approaching and we haven’t mountain biked in over 6 months. It’s probably fair to say that we’re probably not in the best riding shape. During this trip, we’re supposed to average 30-35 miles per day which is nothing on a road bike, but on [...]
Whistler
Whistler’s Mountain Bike is considered by many to be THE preeminent mountain bike park, and the famous North Shore of Vancouver is only a short drive away. Add to that the fact that Squamish, well-known for its quality bouldering, is right next to Whistler and you’ve got the recipe for a mandatory road-trip. We drove [...]
Specialized Enduro Expert
Well, my current cross-country mountain bike (Specialized FSR-XC Pro) probably won’t last too long on our upcoming trip to Whistler so I needed to get something that would. I looked at a bunch of bikes and eventually decided on this one. Here’s some pics of the bike brand new as well as right after its [...]
Colorado
Judy’s been wanting to move to Colorado for some time now so we decided to head out there to check things out. It’s a long drive out there, so we made a pit-stop to ride the world-famous Gooseberry Mesa trail and since we were passing through Fruita, we decided to take a spin on Mary’s [...]
Downieville
This was our first mountain biking trip to the Tahoe area (although Brian has been there once before) and we looked forward to riding the Flume and Downieville trails, both of which are fairly famous. Since the drive up to the Tahoe area is pretty long, we decided to break it up by driving to [...]
Bishop & Rock Creek
For Judy and myself, this was our second trip to Rock Creek. For Patty, it was her first. And for Brian, this was old hat. We drove up Friday night and ended up not leaving SD until after 7 PM. That night we camped at the campground right next to the Rock Creek trail head. [...]
Phoenix
For Judy and me, this was our first trip to the Phoenix Bouldering Contest (PBC), an annual event where scores of climbers from around the world descend upon Queen’s Creek near Phoenix, AZ for a weekend of climbing, socializing, music, food, and all around fun. Since we were going to drive all the way out [...]
Corrizo Gorge
We had been wanting to do the Corrizo Gorge ride for nearly three months. On two separate occasions, our planned trip to Corrizo Gorge was cancelled because of rain. Rain?!! In San Diego? On two separate occasions?!! Yes, it was hard to believe, but it happened. We hoped that our third try would be successful. [...]
