{"id":728,"date":"2010-10-20T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2010-10-20T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T04:02:17","slug":"good-opening-day-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Good Opening Day in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the start of nine day trip that will include a few days in the Seattle area.\u00a0\u00a0 While the weather sucked in San Diego it was downright awesome in Seattle.\u00a0 My orginal plan was to rent a bike today and potentially get in a ride tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 With sunny skies and low 60s for temps, I made some tweaks to my plans and made a dash straight to the place I rented a bike from last time I was here.\u00a0\u00a0 I was stoked to see that had a new fleet of rentals and I would get to be the first person to break in a nicely built 29er hardtail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I had a few hours of daylight left so there would be no exploring today.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I was soon at the Green Mountain trailhead.\u00a0 I have ridden here a few time so I would pretty cool to just enjoy a ride without any route figuring.<\/p>\n

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After scrambbling around through my luggage to get the bike stuff altogether I was headed off up the trail.<\/p>\n

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While there some loops and options you can do at Green Mountain I opted to basic out-and-back on the Wildcat Trail up to the top of Green Mountain.<\/p>\n

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Wildcat is a multi-use trail that also includes motorcycles.\u00a0\u00a0 While this tends to make the trail a little wider, it also means there are lots of bermed turns that are simply a blast on the return leg coming back down the mountain.\u00a0\u00a0 And a blast I did have.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a great day to nearly finish up the day.\u00a0\u00a0 After the\u00a0ride,\u00a0 I took my dirty funky self to the hotel where I got some odd looks from some other the folks in the lobby checking in.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m pretty sure I had a better day than they did.<\/p>\n

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