MTB: Epic-ish Nass Ride - 9/28

Greg · Sep 15, 2008

I'm thinking about burning one vacation day this fall, perhaps right before the leaves start to come down and do a truly epic Nassahegan tour. Watching the weather and finding a sunny dry day will be key. A weekday would mean no time restrictions for me so I could ride 6+ hours if need be. I would like to do a ride that goes 15-20+ miles and hits all the key areas of Nass. We could use Scoville as a staging area for a mid-ride break/resupply spot. Anyone else interested?

Grassi21 · Sep 15, 2008

a truly difficult debate for me. swapping a ski day for a mtb day......

Greg · Sep 15, 2008

Grassi21 said:
a truly difficult debate for me. swapping a ski day for a mtb day......

That's my dilemma. If I give up a November WROD day, I can live with that.

o3jeff · Sep 15, 2008

Weekday will be tough. How about over the next few weekends we map out the Stone road area really well and then piece together a good ride between all the areas. If we start at 7 and keep pedaling(limit the bs sessions) at a moderate pace we should have no problem covering 15-20 miles by noon.

gmcunni · Sep 15, 2008

i'm still very satisfied with MTB on weekends and the occasional evening. i, at this point, would not burn a vacation day. besides, i don't think my body could handle an all day event.

MR. evil · Sep 15, 2008

depending on what my work schedule looks like when we set a ride date I could be down for this.

bvibert · Sep 15, 2008

Not much of a chance for me I don't think. I'm much more likely to pull off an epic ride on a Sunday then to burn a vacation day.

Greg · Sep 15, 2008

o3jeff said:
Weekday will be tough.

gmcunni said:
i, at this point, would not burn a vacation day.

bvibert said:
Not much of a chance for me I don't think. I'm much more likely to pull off an epic ride on a Sunday then to burn a vacation day.

And you guys call yourselves dedicated MTBers. :roll:

Okay then. Get your lazy asses out at first light and we ride till 11 am or noon some Sunday. I know Jeff and maybe Brian could pull it off. Don't have a lot of faith in Gary though.... :razz:

I do agree with Jeff. If we start ludicrously early (i.e. sunrise), have a route we know in mind, forgo any sessioning or video breaks, and only stop long enough to catch wind, we could probably log close to 15-20 miles in say 5 hours. Pack some Powerbars...

o3jeff · Sep 15, 2008

We should probably plan this sooner than later since sunrise is getting later. It was pretty dark in the morning when I left my house at 6:30ish last Sunday

gmcunni · Sep 15, 2008

Greg said:
Okay then. Get your lazy asses out at first light and we ride till 11 am or noon some Sunday.

uh, didn't we do that yesterday ??:smash:

I know Jeff and maybe Brian could pull it off. Don't have a lot of faith in Gary though.... :razz:

i'll leave my car at the 1/2 way point and bail early :-D

o3jeff · Sep 15, 2008

gmcunni said:
i'll leave my car at the 1/2 way point and bail early :-D

I think he meant making it there at the crack of dawn

gmcunni · Sep 15, 2008

o3jeff said:
I think he meant making it there at the crack of dawn

:idea: even better.. i'll park at the 1/2 way point and meet you guys @ 9 AM!! that is still an early wake up by my standards.

bvibert · Sep 15, 2008

Greg said:
And you guys call yourselves dedicated MTBers. :roll: Okay then. Get your lazy asses out at first light and we ride till 11 am or noon some Sunday. I know Jeff and maybe Brian could pull it off. Don't have a lot of faith in Gary though.... :razz:

I do agree with Jeff. If we start ludicrously early (i.e. sunrise), have a route we know in mind, forgo any sessioning or video breaks, and only stop long enough to catch wind, we could probably log close to 15-20 miles in say 5 hours. Pack some Powerbars...

That sounds much more likely to me. I don't recall calling myself a dedicated MTBer...

severine · Sep 16, 2008

Better plan it soon! We're running out of Sundays that would work on our calendar, guys!

(And I don't say that as someone who plans on joining your crazy asses on this ride... I say this to light a fire under your butts because I'm sure Brian wants to join you.

)

o3jeff · Sep 16, 2008

hmmmm, since I am off this week maybe I will go out to Nass after lunch today and do a dry run and see how many miles I can get in.

bvibert · Sep 17, 2008

Does Sunday the 28th work for anyone?

Do you have any sort of route planned yet?

Greg · Sep 17, 2008

bvibert said:
Does Sunday the 28th work for anyone?

Do you have any sort of route planned yet?

Might work for me.

o3jeff · Sep 18, 2008

That should work for me, we just need to put together some type of route.

bvibert · Sep 18, 2008

I went a little crazy and pieced together several .gpx files to make what I consider a pretty cool super loop, that only over-laps in one spot. Comes out to ~23 miles. See what you guys think, obviously there's several options for variations/alternatives.

http://www.bvibert.com/img/AZTour.gpx

The only issue I see (other than it being a damn long ride) is that it does cover some trails we haven't been on, some of it being on the road I think.

o3jeff · Sep 18, 2008

Link don"t work for me

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