Sounds like everyone had some good riding this weekend. The family saddled up the poor jeep with bikes and camping gear to head up to the mountains for the weekend. I really need to get some new shocks for the jeep...but that's another story. Should have taken a picture of the poor thing. Kim, imagine all the bikes plus camping gear!
We met with a bunch of the TORC crowd at the campsite in Almond and discussed riding options. Saturday we rode at Tsali and had a blast. Fun and fast trails. Cynthia got to take off with the early crowd while the kids and I got some more breakfast and got ready for the trail. We got to the trail head just and Cynthia came back from the first loop and took Rachael out while I took Ethan out. Ethan and I rode the Thompson loop together. I have decided that he will from this point on carry ALL the water, tools, repair gear and some added lead weight because he is a mountain goat! The first half of the trail I was up front going pretty good. About mid way I asked if he wanted to lead the way and he said sure. Well, he started leaving me on the climbs! Couldn't believe it. Finally I told him to go ahead and just wait for me at the hill tops and then we'd bomb down the trail together. At least I still have him on the downhill!!!! (although we were pedalling so hard I was running out of gears) That good day of riding ended with the kids swimming in a local creek with cool, crystal clear water! On Sunday we jumped in the cars for a 1 hour ride over to the Jackrabbit trail to meet up with another club. I think there was about 60 people all together. Great crowd and an awesome trail that they put together. They were a blast to ride. Everyone, from 5-60, was able to ride the trails. It was a stacked trail system so the further from the trailhead you went the more technical it got. I rode the first loop with Rachael and her friend Bella while Cynthia and Ethan took off. Later, I got a chance to ride further back in the trails but the rain dumped on us pretty good and chewed up the last of my rear brake pads...riding fast in wet clay conditions with only a front brake, not good. We finished of the ride with a great (slightly soggy) trailhead cookout while the kids were swimming in the lake. We stopped by the Joyce Kilmer Forest on the way back to see a 450 year old poplar tree cove. That was really an incredible old growth forest. Some of the trees were so big the branches were the size of trees here! Made me think of the trees in that movie Avatar. A great weekend...sorry to see it go and get back to work. Kevin DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is for the intended recipient only. If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited. If you as intended recipient have received this e-mail incorrectly, please notify the sender (via e-mail) immediately. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en.
