{"id":4175,"date":"2010-11-14T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2010-11-14T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T08:43:50","slug":"mud-slog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/14\/mud-slog\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Slog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Man, it took until after nine at night to get everything cleaned up after this Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ride. The weather looked fine for a ride earlier in the day, but as ride time approached, a wall of grey clouds came rolling over the Windward side, drawn by the weak trades. Stronger trades would have moved the rain-dumping clouds through faster, leaving the trails slightly dampened at most, but the slowly passing clouds were given the chance to fully saturate the ground. When I arrived, Waikupanaha at the trailhead was dry, but within seconds, the downpouring that I had gone through along Kalani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ole caught up.<\/p>\n

JT and I had talked to Ted Lincoln at the reception for his art show at Chinatown Boardroom on Wednesday evening and discovered he was a mountain biker too. He rented a pretty nice dually Specialized Enduro from Bike Shop and did The Bus<\/em> shuttle runs at St. Louis on Saturday and joined us out at the Ditch for some cross-country trail riding. JT was busy finishing up some artwork and Jeff got sick, so it was just Root, Ted, and I.<\/p>\n

Government Road<\/em> was wet, but not packy. The running rainwater had carved a trough in the bed of leaves. We hit the side loop<\/em> first. Even though it was wet, there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a whole lot of mud to cause problems. The Ditch<\/em> was another story. Mud was slinging and flinging everywhere. On the way out, the mud was more fluid, so there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a whole lot of buildup. When we reached the turnaround and went up the parallel trail, conditions were drying out and the mud began to pack. We explored a couple of recently cut lines, and although these were interesting, the mud made things generally miserable. We bypassed the upper plateau and made the run back along the Ditch<\/em> before the gumbo-mud factor made the trail unmanageable. Keeping to the wetter parts of the trail helped reduce the buildup, but the return leg still felt like riding with the brakes dragging.<\/p>\n

Back at the cars, we did what we could to clean the bikes and our bodies. Ted had to get back home to cook dinner, so Root and I headed over to El Mariachi for food. After I got home, a couple of hours hitting the bike and gear with the hose in the dark\u00c2\u00a0still awaited me.<\/p>\n

Pictures here<\/a><\/p>\n

D = 10.77 km (6.69-miles), Vavr = 11.7 km\/h (7.3-mph), Vmax = 32.5 km\/h (20.2-mph), T = 55-minutes (actual trail time about an hour and a half)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, it took until after nine at night to get everything cleaned up after this Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ride. The weather looked fine for a ride earlier in the day, but as ride time approached, a wall of grey clouds came rolling over the Windward side, drawn by the weak trades. Stronger trades would have moved the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-15l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}