Sunday, November 13, 2011
50 Year
50 year goof off from Scott Morris on Vimeo.
Did you enjoy that crash scene? I am not really sure what happened there. As for the Behemoth on the 50 year, it's the perfect bike. I only need to work up some courage on some of those B-lines that you see in the video. It's the next transition for me from endurance geek to all mountain wannabe. I hope to get better in the coming months.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
TTT
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
TOR50LITA
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Great evening rides are now the norm at the 50 year trail, so much so that I have been timing the sunsets perfectly. The best place for sunsets is the top of Gem Trail.
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Tuesday had another good showing of riders.
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Lighting was incredible as the evening progressed.
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Then, Benji and Ty met at my house for a new idea that Scott and I had been mulling over. It's called the TOR50LITA....a combination of a 50 year and the Tortolita Loop.
In a nutsheel....50-year, Deer, Cherry, Round the Mtn, Gem, Chutes, Edwin, Goat, Wild Mustang, Upper Javelina, Moore Rd, Como, Maus, Powerline Rd to a rarely used (near bushwack) double track back to Oracle Rd.
Brilliant, eh? We did the route counter clockwise, but I think it might be best clockwise.
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These two pictures are reason enough to do the ride again.
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Very little of this, given the techy nature of this route. Here is the group on Around the Mtn.
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I need to bring some loppers up here soon, Cherry tank is pretty overgrown. Around the Mountain is hard to navigate at times.
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Some amazing new trail (thanks to Mark F and Co.) in the Tortolitas make this route work.
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Scott and I helped reroute this section with Mark a few years ago. It's fun to see what happens after trail building occur.
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Photo by Ty Brookhart
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After dropping from Upper Javelina, Ty had a flat at the bead. I had to be somewhere, so I bolted and left Benji and Ty. All of us skipped the Como-Maus option that I mentioned before.
It was about a 6 hour moving time ride, 7 hours of overall time. I expect the final route to be posted in 2 weeks, February 11th is the tentative date.
Some more riding at 50 Year the rest of the week....
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