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<\/p>\nLast week was really busy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While work was plenty busy, I did have enough time to get out and about on some trails.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After starting the week out by finding out with my bike being stolen, I was able to get my hands on a rental hardtail on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday after work I hit up Banner Forest.\u00a0\u00a0 I had hiked a small slice of this area in December of 2008 but this was the first time on the bike.\u00a0\u00a0 This places is a lot of fun.\u00a0 Lots of the twists and turns and quick up and downs on nearly all singletrack.\u00a0\u00a0 Quite the fun XC playground.<\/p>\n
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Wednesday was supposed to be a quick afternoon ride at Green Mountain near Bremerton.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The trail was billed as well marked out-up and back-down.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just a few miles into the climb I\u00a0spied and sweet looking narrow singletrack heading off to the west and someone had made a wooden arrow on the ground pointing to it.\u00a0\u00a0 For those that know me, know what happened next.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes I took the sweet looking singletrack that was not on my map.\u00a0\u00a0 This was indeed a really awesome singletrack saw much less traffic the the one I started on.\u00a0 This trail lead to another and another and the next thing I know I was much futher out than I had planned on being.\u00a0\u00a0 I had to dust off\u00a0 some\u00a0orienteering skills that I had not had to use\u00a0so thoroughly in quite sometime.\u00a0 When all said an done my 12-14 miles afternoon spin ended\u00a0being a\u00a0stout 21 miler that ended\u00a0in the waning moments of the day.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Saturday it was raining the Seattle-Tacoma area so I headed inland to the east of Mt Rainer to ride the Ranger Creek and Palisades trail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The 20 miles of pure singletrack did not disappoint.\u00a0\u00a0 I am going to get back here when the sun is out.<\/p>\n
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Sunday I headed out to the Olympic Pennisula for a ride that is considered a Washington Classic\/Epic.\u00a0\u00a0 The Lower Dungeness to Gold Creek Trail loop. For much of the ride I was in the clouds which made the fantastic singletracks take on a primordial rainforest feel. The cloud ride in thick old growth woods was sometimes spooky and I often found myself whistling so as not to surpise any critters further up the foodchain.<\/span><\/p>\n I’ll get some proper ride reports put together when I get some downtime, but for now it will just be the samplers.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/fa1f4b70c94bf121124a434f066a71ff.jpg?resize=840%2C560\")
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