Go forth and ride, then bring back pics

[LaBelle23]

Halloween in Grand Junction/Fruita

We left this at home:

To hit up this:

We never were able to confirm if Daywalker's suit was for Halloween or not:

3 tiny little riders above the rim

Daywalker

My lurker man


Daywalker scaring himself a little...

But he goes back up and pulls it out



Strong effort, but he proceeded to eat sand about 1 second later


Great trip, great crew -- can't wait for another helping soon...

[knumbskull]

LaBelle, great pics. I see the one drop on Free Lunch that I always chicken out on (maybe Daywalker shouldve ;-) ). I dont recognize the rest of the pictures, what trail(s) are they from?

[LaBelle23]

The first set is from horsethief/mary's loop/mack ridge/moore fun on Saturday and then we did the ribbon to free lunch to holy cross on Sunday. The pic with the snow starts the set of pics from the ribbon ride. It had just melted out and dried up for the most part -- the slog from the creek bed up to little park rd would have been hardly passable the day before.

To Daywalker's credit the landing on that drop was really soft from the moisture. A bunch of the guys rolled up to it about 10 times only to stop short, but he actually hit it.

[Tick]

[QUOTE=LaBelle23;2586989]It had just melted out and dried up for the most part -- the slog from the creek bed up to little park rd would have been hardly passable the day before.

QUOTE]

we tried to ride it last thursday but it was disastrous. I even attempted shouldering my bike and walking until the trail got higher and potentially dry... no such luck. i guess i'll have to make yet another long trip from Maine to ride the gnarly grand junction stuff!

-Tick

[Swine]

I know I should be getting revved up to stoke on snow but... I won't be back to Utah until January and... I'm really jonesin' to ride Lunch Line and King Kong, takers?

pnut; great shot of Capone with the trees in the foreground, beautiful job of framing.

Anyway, shot of my friend catching air with Bolivian Chulita's in the background.

[Dangerous E]

So many good pics in here. Making the transition from dirt to snow that much harder.

More Lunch Loops action--down below Free Lunch on Puckerup 2 weeks ago. Two angles of the same drop. I freaking love these trails.

[Dobish]

i rode my bike yesterday... it was very muddy. i did not take pictures.

[Dangerous E]

The Dobish = teh failz.

[steadieflow]

Come on Dobish....where did you ride?

Guess I should throw a pic up so not to be lame like Dobish. This is from Golden this spring....things were nice and green.

[Conundrum]

Things are starting to get good. Been out about 10 times or so and still hoping for a chair lift shaped saddle.

The long traverse



SHEEP! The Basque are doing their annual move across the foothills



Post climb pre descent carbs



Trails are buff right now. Here's one the reasons I built a 29er this year

[scrublover]

Epic shredding.

[Particle]

Nice thread bump Conundrum, pics look sweet. How's the Yelli treating you?

[Conundrum]

29ers are weird. It's fun though...the geo is exactly right for me for XC riding. Not as steep as other 29ers I've tried. For the buff XC trails around here, I wouldn't change anything. I've got Bag's Reign X for the shuttles around here and it seems like a really good two bike quiver. I built it up heavy so I doubt I'll be undergunned on anything except the stuff I'm too scared to ride anyway.

[Rontele]

29ers are weird. It's fun though...the geo is exactly right for me for XC riding. Not as steep as other 29ers I've tried. For the buff XC trails around here, I wouldn't change anything. I've got Bag's Reign X for the shuttles around here and it seems like a really good two bike quiver. I built it up heavy so I doubt I'll be undergunned on anything except the stuff I'm too scared to ride anyway.

Ultimate two bike quiver is a 29er and a heavy duty trail bike.

[scrublover]

Ultimate two bike quiver is a 29er and a heavy duty trail bike.

So when are you going to get on that?