Loop – 67 miles
Confused Trail Boss – Spode Daddy
Riders – Loyal, Trent , Dan , Jim
I had planned to do a variation of The House that Dirt Built but got confused by the amount of road to
connect the single track and missed Portland Gulch / Squaw Garden , the best legs.
Poison Creek
Half Moon Pass
Upper end of West Fork Birch Creek.
Lunch stop
We climbed up the hill to use the monoliths as a wind break.
This part of the canyon was a wind tunnel.
Looking at last months ride – the trail head for Portland Gulch was another mile of so from where I dropped
into the Savage Crossing single track ( the red track ).
Above Savage Crossing we discussed riding Portland Gulch/ Squaw Garden the opposite way but decided to ride over Doyle Mountain so Loyal and Dan could split off and head back to the trucks.
Hog Pen – the sand is getting deeper the more it dries out.
Weather was moving in by the time I got back to Boise it was raining.
I hadn’t ridden this stretch in years took me a while to recognize where we were.
Ridding the sand wore me out. Trent had to help me up the lip on the hill climb.
About a mile from the trucks I hit reserve.
I dropped my bike in the slow sand washes 2-3 times loosing some gas.
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