BLACKS CREEK 11/14/10

RIDERS- DAVID, JON, JOHN

LOOP- 35 MILES , TOO SHORT !  RODE SOME DIFFERENT TRAILS, BUT DIDN’T CLOCK ENOUGH MILES.

AS WE HEADED OUT OF TOWN ON THE FREEWAY THE RAIN WAS ROLLING IN, BUT AS WE MADE OUR WAY UP BLACKS CREEK ROAD IT CLEARED UP. JUST HAD A LIGHT MIST WHEN WE STARTED OUT.

JON PICKED THE WRONG LINE CROSSING THE CREEK. NOW HE KNOWS.

 

AT THE BEGINNING OF DEVIL’S HOLE, I WAS POKING ALONG THE TRAIL WHERE IT IS WIDE ENOUGH FOR MY TRUCK. I MANAGED TO CLIP A STUMP AND FLIP OFF THE TRAIL.

I WAS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN OVER THE CREEK WITH MY FOOT STUCK UNDER THE BIKE. AFTER I GOT UNTANGLED, I TRIED A COUPLE OF TIMES TO PULL THE BIKE UP ON THE TRAIL. DECIDED I NEEDED TO GO DOWN THRU THE CREEK. SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASY, BUT THE FRONT WHEEL PINNED AGAINST A LOG WITH THE BACK WHEEL STILL ON TOP OF THE BANK. WHEN I GOT THE BIKE OVER THE LOG IT WAS POINTED THE WRONG WAY. AFTER I GOT IT TURNED AROUND IT WAS EASY TO RIDE OUT.

I MET DAVID AND JON ,WHO WERE HEADED BACK TO LOOK FOR ME JUST PAST THE NARROW SPOTS.

LUNCH IN CANYON JUST ABOVE DEVILS HOLE.

DAVID CONSULTING MAP. I WANTED TO RIDE 322 DOWN FROM THE RIDGE.

 

ride out of devils hole

RIDE OUT OF DEVIL’S HOLE 

TRAIL 322

TRAIL 322-FUN TRAIL, NEED TO WORK ON STITCHING DIFFERENT ROUTES TOGETHER TO MAXIMIZE SINGLE TRACK ROUTES.

TRAIL 420

BACK IN THE DAY, BLACKS CREEK WAS FULL OF “JUST SINGLE TRACKS” LIKE 420.

 

SHORT DAY, BUT NO ONE HAD TO RIDE DOUBLE !

BLACKS CREEK 11/6/10

RIDERS – DAVID, GORDON ,JOHN

LOOP- 55 MILES PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS MONDAY.

 

THE ROCK, THE HOLE , THE LOG

TRAIL 316

DAVID  WANTED TO  SCOUT THE ROCK TO SEE IF YOU COULD RIDE ABOVE THE NOTCH. YOU CAN’T.

ON THE WILLOW CREEK CROSSING I DRIFTED TO FAR TO THE RIGHT(NEVER NEW YOU COULD) AND CASED IN A RUT.

MY MOMMA TOLD IF WE WOULD CARRY SAWS WE WOULDN’T HAVE SO MUCH HEAVY LIFTING.

 

GORDON AND DAVID, LUNCH AT OUR NEW FAVORITE SPOT. I STILL MIGHT TAKE YOU THERE.

WHICH WAY DID DAVID GO ?

DAVID SAID WE WOULD GO THE SAME WAY BACK, BUT SKIP THE STEEP STUFF. I WAS  THINKING OF THE OTHER STEP STUFF. THEY WEREN’T AT ANY JUNCTIONS (IF I GOT ONE OF THOSE NEW 6 SPEED KTMS WOULD I BE FASTER ?), NO DUST AND I KEPT SEEING SCRATCH MARKS, BUT IT MUST HAVE BEEN FROM  MONDAY.

WILLOW CREEK

 

I THOUGHT I WOULD TRY THE CREEK BED INSTEAD OF THE COBBY SIDE HILL. BAD IDEA, THE CREEK BED IS MORE COBBY PLUS THERE IS A TREE DOWN. GORDON HAD TO RECUSE ME.

 

 

SUNDAY WAS MARILYN'S BIRTHDAY !

SUBURBAN SINGLE TRACKING -BLACKS CREEK 11 /1 / 10

LOOP- 55 MILES

RIDERS – DAVID , JOHN

STARTED AT WILLOW CREEK TRAIL HEAD. TEMP WAS ~ 40’.

WAS  A GREAT DAY, SPECTACULAR COLORS . NO DUST.

ADDED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT TRAILS.

DROPPED MY BIKE IN WILLOW CREEK BUT DIDN’T DROWN IT.

HAD TO BE ONE OF THE BEST RIDES AT BLACKS CREEK.

TRAIL 410, 411 AND WILLOW CREEK

DAVID AT SADDLE ON TRAIL 316

ME. NEW KLIM JACKET !

OUR LUNCH SPOT.

SOME DAY I MIGHT TAKE YOU THERE !

RIDE INTO DEVILS HOLE