Heh.Quote:
Originally posted by powderwhore
Ya scared Sally?
How long is the ride down? What's the trail like? More like sweeney's or spiro?
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Heh.Quote:
Originally posted by powderwhore
Ya scared Sally?
How long is the ride down? What's the trail like? More like sweeney's or spiro?
Which trail are you talking about?Quote:
Originally posted by Ski Monkey
Heh.
How long is the ride down? What's the trail like? More like sweeney's or spiro?
Last weekend I was pre-riding the race course for this weekend at Powder Mountain. I know, I know, it's no downhill.....but, there were some guys shuttling a DH trail, or so they called it. They said it was 20-25 minutes long, a couple 10-15' drops, some consecutive. Anyone know anything about this?
I've been researching some trails near my office in Heber. There's one canyon called Clegg I've been riding at lunch hour as an out and back, it's a sweeet DH and a not too horrible climb. However, we can't climb much past roughly 2.5 miles and 1,000 vert. The trail gets a bit overgrown, super rocky and super steep. Which could make the upper sections absolutely sick for DH. The trail is about 4 miles.
Recently I figured out that several neighboring canyons, including Clegg, Dry, and Main, all intersect in the above Uinta mountains. So anyway there's a peak w/ a radio tower up there that's supposedly not too hard to drive to. It'd be possible to loop some upper sections of these trails, do them as a pure DH, or whatever. And you wouldn't have to drive up US-40 to the trailheads; you could just ride down 40 (daniels canyon) pretty much back to Heber, so the shuttle wouldn't be horrible.
Anyway...who wants to do some drivin and MTB exploring? And when? This wknd might not work for me but maybe post-work at 5pm in Heber? Anyone?
I'd love to but Heber, thats far. We need to hook up some weekend and do some shuttles for sure.
phUnk, don't be scared we'll wait for you at the bottom.
Thanks fuckface.Quote:
Originally posted by powderwhore
phUnk, don't be scared we'll wait for you at the bottom.
:p
Yeah I figured I'd have a hard time getting people up there. Anyway I'd be stoked to do a Bountiful DH run or DV lifts...whatevah.
So I ripped the chit outta bobsled today, but it seemed like I was really getting tossed around a LOT too much by loose rocks. Got to the bottom and realized my freakin ETA fork lockout had been on the whole descent. Lame. Nice to be able to rip the chit outta somethin with a whoppin 30mm of travel tho (vs. the fork's normal 130mm, doh!)
Still haven't ridden with either of you pussies (phunk and pho) since you've had your cushy rigs...gotta change that soon. And I'm stoked to drool all over Mr. AG's AS-X.
I guess I better get off my lazy ass and go for a ride. Anybody up for a mid morning Muellers say Thurs. or Fri.? Did I mention I love my job right now :D .
Particle, once my new bike gets here i would probably be up for exploring the Heber area.
Particle, Sorry I've been out of the loop lately. DHing was AWESOME this weekend. I really like my DH bike at I St. as well. We'll be at DV next weekend both days (they opened the NCS course!).
Anyone up for the Crest trail Tuesday night, maybe around 6 pm at the Mill D parking lot?
You've got one new message.Quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Altagirl
Anyone up for the Crest trail Tuesday night, maybe around 6 pm at the Mill D parking lot?
Mmm.... DJ with Frizzo today or help powderwhore push his bike up puke hill...
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Just spoke with PowHo, we are going to try to be at Mill D at 5:30. phUnk, you should be there. Bring your little dirt jumping friend too.;)
Particle???? Anyone else???
Quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Altagirl
Particle???? Anyone else???
Arghhh, damn work. Unfortunately I won't be, but if anyone wants to pre-ride the race course at solitude I'm doing that tomorrow night.:rolleyes:
You and everyone else thats entering that race. It looked real busy up at Solitude today.Quote:
Originally posted by Telephil
Arghhh, damn work. Unfortunately I won't be, but if anyone wants to pre-ride the race course at solitude I'm doing that tomorrow night.:rolleyes:
Hope you guys had fun. I'm officially moved out of my Heber office, so next week quick runs up to the Crest, etc., will be much more do-able.
Anywayz I'm off to Minnesota to get married! See ya next week with a big ball and chain tied to my left ring finger....errr leg. ;)
p.s. about Heber riding, no prob Mr. AG. You and Ski Monkey, if we get it organized I'd still like to figure out how to shuttle those runs. I chatted with some rangers doing trail maintenance on Clegg Cyn. today, and they said it's well-marked at the top, near some corrals. Shouldn't be too tough, maybe even run a coupla shuttles. The next week or two we should give it a shot!
Crest was great again today. I guess I started a little bit before y'all as we were up at Guardsman's a bit before 5PM. There was quite a bit of uphill traffic today though--way more than the other times I was on it so far this year, but still not nearly as much as usual after Mill Creek Road is fully open. There was a ton of people on the road too.
Be careful on Mill Creek Road above the middle parking lot. Even though it's closed to the general public, there's some car traffic on it. As I was riding down today, there was a moron driving a minivan on the wrong side of the road. Luckily, there was enough space to get around. I later heard that some bicyclist got hit by a car a few days ago there. The Forest Service put a sign warning about the traffic near the gate, but we didn't get the warning earlier since we started at Guardman's.
Anyone up for a post-work ride tonight? (Mon)
dude, would you get to work already...;)
too bad i work till 9 now
Anyone and everyone...
Powho and i are riding friday morning, meeting by 7:30 am.
Deer Valley DH Sat. 10AM. Altagirls and myself, powho? Anyone else?
I'll be in the Uintas...next time, i promise!
Jay with new ASX; let the carnage begin!
GT-40 will be on scene taking it all in via camera / video for all to see. Should be fun.
How can we get phUnk to show up? What if we talked Xover into renting an RMX for the day and finally hucking his meat? :D :p :) :cool: :eek: :rolleyes: ;)
Oh - BTW - bring some lunch for tomorrow - there's not much selection available otherwise. We bring a cooler up to the lift.
In there like swimwear. Mrs. Frizzo, too.
Does anyone have a shock pump? I need to muck around.
J-
We'll have one on the truck.
See ya'lls around 10.
But I have to leave at noon thirty.
Ah, no can do. I'm one of only a few people(heathens) that can work sunday's at the park. How long are you guys going to be up there? Maybe grab a beer afterwards?
sorry we didn't get your message until too late.
We ended up getting rained out after a couple runs, but it was fun up until the hail and lightning started... After trying to wait out the rain with no success, we headed down to I street and hit dirt jumps for a while. That drop is finally starting to feel like much less of a big deal, which is nice!
We rode PC and got caught in the rain & pea-sized hail too. Rode up Powerline, across Keystone, and down John's & Sweeney's. John's and Sweeney's were mighty, erm, interesting with all the rain, mud, and wet roots. A few slips and slides were had, heh.
Is this really Utah? This is by far the most rain I've seen since I've moved here. Hard to believe that our rain totals are still not close to "normal."
No kidding. Being soaked to the core with the never-ending rain up there made me feel like I was in Germany, not Utah.