Only Chris and I made it out for F\/R Monday yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Ckucke had a dinner, JT was at an art opening for Tracy’s works, and the Root was not right.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather was ominously overcast, but no rain had fallen all day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
We went down the sideline then dropped onto mainline, then turned off at the powerpole cutoff.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone has been busy, since the turns along the powerpole cutoff were all bermed in.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbing back up to the 4-way junction, we discovered in the failing light that someone had built some platforms in the Norfolk Island pine thicket on either side of the inner loop trail.\u00c2\u00a0 On the uphill side was a head-high platform, and on the lower side, next to the abandoned homeless encampment, was a ramp.\u00c2\u00a0 Both stunts were constructed from cut-down Norfolk Island pine and store-bought planks.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris climbed up on the platform and said it felt solid, but after seeing how things were built in BC, the 4″-diameter logs that were being used in this instance looked rather spindly and unsubstantial.<\/p>\n
After climbing up the inner loop, we dropped into lower dumps.\u00c2\u00a0 Having not ridden since returning from Whistler (not even “secret training”), I was getting the arm burn and the quad burn through the rock gardens.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a little drizzle at the off-camber rock roll-in, but it had ceased by the time\u00c2\u00a0I popped out into the light by the white bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 Finishing the drop, we climbed up agave and dropped down to the road the usual way.\u00c2\u00a0 There were lots of new jumps built alongside the trails – along the agave climb, on the flat past the junction in the burned-out area, and down along the lower trail.\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody’s been really busy in the past few weeks!<\/p>\n
The sky opened up and let out the rain when we reached McBike, so our timing was just about right.\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner was at Azteca.\u00c2\u00a0 Bumped into Bob Mon there – I haven’t seen him in ages.<\/p>\n
D = 4.61-miles, Vavr = 8.0 mph, Vmax on trail = 19.1 mph, T = 34-minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t turn the computer on until we were at the park, so the total distance is off.<\/p>\n