Trail Wanderlust
It has been a while since I had been on the Wildhorse and Santa Ana River Trails so it was time to fix that. I meet my long-time friend Bill (aka MrMountainHop) at bottom of Middle Control. We left one lockable beer container here and took another to top of the Wildhorse. We have often … Continue reading “Wildhorse – SART”
Bill and I did a ride on the Wildhorse trail near Big Bear and connected it up with the Santa Ana River trail. We typically do this as a point-to-point ride. This logistics of this takes over an hour at both due to the length and the long high clearance road you need to drive … Continue reading “Wildhorse – SART”
It was mighty nice to get back up in the mountains near Big Bear again. Outside of the my recent ride in Flagstaff, it has been months since I had been out for a decent ride. This was just what the doctor ordered. Ali, Bill and I started off on the Sugarloaf Trail and I was quickly … Continue reading “Hitting up the SART”
There is a wildfire burning near Angelus Oaks, Barton Flats South Fork Area. Hopefully they can keep this contain south of HWY 38 and protect the homes in the area. It would also be a horrible for the Santa Ana River Trail or Wildhorse to burn. Major Bummer! LAKE FIRE UPDATE AS OF 6/19/15 @ 0658 HRS: … Continue reading “Wildfire threatening the SART”
So I know some people who know some people who ……. That is typically the start of a really good bit of story telling. It ranks right up there with “This is a No-Shitter”. Of course any story that starts off with either one of those opening lines is to be treated as suspect and … Continue reading “NorCal Peep Tour of the SART”
This past weekend, I headed out over the Snoqualmie Pass area about 70 miles east of Seattle to check out the Kachess Ridge trail. I have passed through this area a handful of times over the years between MTB and flyfishing trips and I had eye-balled the mountains through here on every occasion. The ride is billed as … Continue reading “Kachess Ridge, WA”
What a great couple of rides I had this weekend. I took Friday off to show my bud Matt one of my favorite around around Idyllwild. We started off my dropping a truck off at Herkey Creek and then continuing on up through Idyllwild to the top of the Ernie Maxwell trail. This trail sees … Continue reading “I Love the Yellow Snow!”
Mount Eboshi is the most the promeint mountain surrounding Sasebo. So of course I had to go up there and see what the deal was as I had been told there are trails up there. I had even been given a very rudimentary map. During my first visit I realized the map was pretty outdated and soon … Continue reading “Exploring Mt Eboshi near Sasebo”
