It was cooler than last Saturday, with overcast skies and a threat of rain, but still hot.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a breeze to keep things cool, but it was also a\u00c2\u00a0headwind to fight at times.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris was busy and Root didn’t respond to any of the ride mail during the week, so I thought it was going to be just Jeff, Sara, and myself again.\u00c2\u00a0 Pulling into the parking lot,\u00c2\u00a0I saw that Paul and Danny were going to join us again!\u00c2\u00a0 There was a brief discussion on the ride course, and we decided on the mystery hills since there was less climbing\u00c2\u00a0than the regular loop.<\/p>\n
We\u00c2\u00a0duplicated the 02 June ride, except for a brief exploration around the grassy spot coming out\u00c2\u00a0of the first valley, and a brief foray up\u00c2\u00a0a singletrack neat the fenceline on the third ridge<\/em> that looks like a potential continuation of the trail system, possibly connecting to Waimano. Oh, and of course we didn’t go down the dead-end on the fourth ridge<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We took the turn down the singletrack leading to the downhill groove, but turned right at the yump and returned to the main road along an overgrown contour doubletrack along the face of the hillside.<\/p>\n Conditions were slightly damp from rain in the morning, but not slippery or slick.\u00c2\u00a0 traction was good and there was no packing until the very end.\u00c2\u00a0 On the third ridge<\/em> there were a few spots with standing water, so it probably rained in the previous 6-hours or so. Danny said “rain”, so we got drizzled on during the bar break at the top! The loose climb up to the farm was damp and sticky, clogging the tires and laying a bed of mortar for the loose gravel on the road to stick into.<\/p>\n 7.64-miles, 1-hour, 19-minutes, Vavr =\u00c2\u00a05.7 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was cooler than last Saturday, with overcast skies and a threat of rain, but still hot.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a breeze to keep things cool, but it was also a\u00c2\u00a0headwind to fight at times.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris was busy and Root didn’t respond to any of the ride mail during the week, so I thought it was […]<\/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-1s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}