Trail Wanderlust
Well after almost seven weeks off of the bike due to injuring my right knee I got back on the dirt. For this first ride back I decided to head out to San Pasqual Valley and do the section of the Coast-to-Crest Trail from Bandy Canyon Road up to Raptor Ridge and back. I decided … Continue reading “San Pasqual Valley – Raptor Ridge”
Raptor Ridge (Located near Escondido) the Mule Hill and San Pasqual Valley Trails goes between Lake Hodges to the west and along the agriculture fields to the east in San Pasqual Valley. The high point along this route is Raptor Ridge. There is a little something for most XC style riders as beginners can enjoy … Continue reading “Rapter Ridge Video”
This has been a pretty awesome week. Sunday I did my first MTB ride since my heart valve replacement surgery in November. The big litmus test was having enough upper body strength to lift the bike up onto my over the bed truck rack on my truck. I had also been doing some tooling around … Continue reading “Back in the Saddle!”
Lake Hodges is not in bad shape right now. On this particular outing I combined both the south side and the north side trail All together I did about 24 miles of fairly quick paced riding (for me). I did not add in Bernardo peak. If I had that would have made for some pretty … Continue reading “Lake Hodges”
I added the Mule Hill and San Pasqual Valley trails located near Escondido to the site. You may also hear these trails referred to as Raptor Ridge as that is the top of the climb. While this is for the most part a non-technical trail, the farmland scenery not typically associated with San Diego it … Continue reading “Mule Hill – San Pasqual Valley”
I did my first bike packing trip this weekend. A group of six of us set off to do the Coast to Crest trail leaving from Julian with the plan to end with our tires in the ocean on Del Mar’s Dog Beach. The Coast to Crest trail is a long way from completed and our … Continue reading “Coast to Crest Bikepacking Trip”
My how time flies. It been a while since my last post. I would like to say that I have been too busy riding my bike to post, but that is simply not the case. Between work, family, the holidays and a handful of the other things getting to the keyboard has just not been happening. … Continue reading “Winter in San Diego”
For the last week and a half I have not been riding as I had gotten myself a mighty fine batch of Poison Oak. I had it in enough strategic places that riding a bike would not be fun. I’m still dealing with some of it, but I’m beyond the worst of it. This past … Continue reading “Poison Oak, Old Rigs and New Rigs”
