A busy day for me up in the forbidden forest. Basically spent all but a few minutes of the daylight hours out and about in the forest enjoying the unseasonal yet beautiful weather.
Met up with Greg, Bvibert, MR.evil and his buddy Jamie on Scoville road at 8am this morning and after assembling all the necessary gear we headed out into the trails a few minutes later. Things where a bit frosty when we started as the temp was probably around 30 but with the right clothing and a little bit of pedaling I warmed right up and actually started to sweat before to long.
We headed right into the Cemetery Twisties and before we got to the end we lost our first rider. Bvibert managed somehow to blow up the replacement hub I had given him in almost the same exact place that he terminated his original one about a month ago. When he pulled out onto the fire road and he broke the news, I was in shock and couldn't beleive the same exact thing happened in the same spot, deja vu for sure.
After consoling Bvibert and sending him back to Scoville road via the fire road we headed up the Fat Kid Climb and out towards the Cornwall DH. Lots of trees down up in this area regardless had a great time watching Jamie roll the big rock at the entrance of the surveyors trail. After several breaks we pressed on down the Cornwall DH and stopped here and there so Mr. Evil and Jamie could check out some of the local geological features.
We crossed Route 69 and headed into the Hinman trail and had the opportunity to roll some sweet recently created (some only hours old) trail enhancement projects that rolled super nice. None the less somewhere in this stretch of trail Mr.evil took a spill and bonked his hip good enough that he needed to head back to the car instead of finishing off the rest of the route.
Greg and I carried on and slogged are way up the Jonnycake climb and then continued on upward on the Meth Lab climb riding almost to the top of Jonnycake Mountain. Once we where up on top I treated Greg to his first rip down the Knee Tree trail. This is one of the newer trails in the Nassahegan network and a damn fun one at that. After completing the KT and crossing Scoville Road we finished off the ride with the following romp: Sandy Pellican>Scoville Twisties>SKidder Road>WC Bypass>4-Way>DH>BSB and back to the cars.
The loop came in at 7.88 miles with a healthy 1506 feet of climbing. None the less, great to ride with you guys again, it's been ages since we last pedaled.
Anyway, after everyone had split from the morning crew I headed back in to the woods and spent a few hours doing some TM on various sections of trail. Lots of fun with rocks! :lol: After a short break and a $5.00 foot long sandwich from Subway got back on the bike a little before 2pm and rolled a nifty and nicely paced 8.3 mile loop with 1450 feet of climbing with some friends. As a whole it was a wonderful day spent in the woods of the forbidden forest and look forward to doing it again.
Met up with Greg, Bvibert, MR.evil and his buddy Jamie on Scoville road at 8am this morning and after assembling all the necessary gear we headed out into the trails a few minutes later. Things where a bit frosty when we started as the temp was probably around 30 but with the right clothing and a little bit of pedaling I warmed right up and actually started to sweat before to long.
We headed right into the Cemetery Twisties and before we got to the end we lost our first rider. Bvibert managed somehow to blow up the replacement hub I had given him in almost the same exact place that he terminated his original one about a month ago. When he pulled out onto the fire road and he broke the news, I was in shock and couldn't beleive the same exact thing happened in the same spot, deja vu for sure.
After consoling Bvibert and sending him back to Scoville road via the fire road we headed up the Fat Kid Climb and out towards the Cornwall DH. Lots of trees down up in this area regardless had a great time watching Jamie roll the big rock at the entrance of the surveyors trail. After several breaks we pressed on down the Cornwall DH and stopped here and there so Mr. Evil and Jamie could check out some of the local geological features.
We crossed Route 69 and headed into the Hinman trail and had the opportunity to roll some sweet recently created (some only hours old) trail enhancement projects that rolled super nice. None the less somewhere in this stretch of trail Mr.evil took a spill and bonked his hip good enough that he needed to head back to the car instead of finishing off the rest of the route.
Greg and I carried on and slogged are way up the Jonnycake climb and then continued on upward on the Meth Lab climb riding almost to the top of Jonnycake Mountain. Once we where up on top I treated Greg to his first rip down the Knee Tree trail. This is one of the newer trails in the Nassahegan network and a damn fun one at that. After completing the KT and crossing Scoville Road we finished off the ride with the following romp: Sandy Pellican>Scoville Twisties>SKidder Road>WC Bypass>4-Way>DH>BSB and back to the cars.
The loop came in at 7.88 miles with a healthy 1506 feet of climbing. None the less, great to ride with you guys again, it's been ages since we last pedaled.
Anyway, after everyone had split from the morning crew I headed back in to the woods and spent a few hours doing some TM on various sections of trail. Lots of fun with rocks! :lol: After a short break and a $5.00 foot long sandwich from Subway got back on the bike a little before 2pm and rolled a nifty and nicely paced 8.3 mile loop with 1450 feet of climbing with some friends. As a whole it was a wonderful day spent in the woods of the forbidden forest and look forward to doing it again.
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