{"id":682,"date":"2010-07-25T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2010-07-25T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T17:14:10","slug":"two-peaks-and-two-canyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Two Peaks and Two Canyons"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the mid-week ride this week, it ended up being a doozie.\u00a0\u00a0 The plan was to met up with some folks for a ride through Spring and Oak Canyon at 5pm.\u00a0 I was able to finish off the day’s work early and figured I had enough time to get some mileage before the scheduled ride.<\/p>\n

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I parked at the trailhead for the Spring and Oak Canyon ride (Bushy Hills at MTRP campground) and did some street riding over to the Mesa singletrack for a climb up Cowles Mountain<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a beater as usual but love trying to clear the waterbars at their highest points but by the time I got up to the fireroad I was contend to get up the trails.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The fireroad up to the top was as always brutal.<\/p>\n

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At the top of Cowles I was still looking really good on time so I decided to do the out and back to Pyles Peak.\u00a0\u00a0 Plenty of waterbars here as well which made the down section pretty fun.<\/p>\n

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I was at the turnaround spot on Pyles Peak before I knew it and it was time for return climb back up to Cowles.\u00a0\u00a0 I was still feeling pretty good when I got back to the summit and was all smiles on the way down the Big Rock trail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got back to the campground just a couple of minutes before the first person showed up for the 5 pm ride.\u00a0\u00a0 I could have been happy with a beer and some dinner at this point, but yeah I already said I was going to do the ride.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Spring and Oak Canyon was a good ride, but I had to dig into the energy reserves pretty deep to stay on pace with the fresh legged crew.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was good and pooped when we finished up and shortly thereafter we made our way over to the MTRP visitor center for the monthly SDMBA advocacy meeting.\u00a0\u00a0 I slept well that night.<\/p>\n

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