{"id":910,"date":"2011-08-09T05:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2011-08-13T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T18:57:00","slug":"dirt-time-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Time in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have been in Seattle for a couple of weeks on a work gig but just managed to hit the dirt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Man can not live in the dirt alone so I have been enjoying some of the other wonders of the Pacfic Northwest, thier\u00a0great microbrews.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the 10+ brewpubs in the Seattle area I have\u00a0swelled hoppy goodness at, \u00a0I attended the Bremerton Beer Festival. The following weekend was spent in Portland for the 24th Aniversary of the Oregon Brewer&#8217;s Festival.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the madhouse that was the Brewer&#8217;s Festival some of the local goods were also sample directly at the source.\u00a0 Deschutes, Bridgeport, Widmer, Tugboat and Amensia Brewing were on the &#8220;tour&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0Needless to I was stupidly happy about sampling some of the best beers around.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My liver on the other hand felt differently after taking more than one for the team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/0fe075ff22a5e74bd62c31262495758c.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/0fe075ff22a5e74bd62c31262495758c.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of the MTBBill Liver Recovery Act of 2011, it was time to get some pedals turning.\u00a0\u00a0 The<a href=\"http:\/\/mountainbikebill.com\/WA-Colonnade.htm\"> I-5 Colonnade MTB Skills Park<\/a> is less than 10 minutes from where I&#8217;m staying so it is always good for a quick afterwork fix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/6ef40d8d9bbc9e44d355660b262a8b61.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/6ef40d8d9bbc9e44d355660b262a8b61.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Working part of the weekend is part of the work gig for this project, but <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreenmtb.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Trail:Green_Mountain\">Green Mountain <\/a>was close enough to where I was working to allow for some grunting and grinning in the dirt after work.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Air Time\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/20d750a98c2945b2ace63f9b1f6177ca.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/20d750a98c2945b2ace63f9b1f6177ca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" title=\"Air Time\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/94c5fbf0cc210ebea90d2d980f608d82.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"Air Time\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/94c5fbf0cc210ebea90d2d980f608d82.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreenmtb.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Duthie_Hill\">Duthie Hill <\/a>Mountain Bike Park is the Seattle areas second MTB Skills Park and it is simply awesome.\u00a0\u00a0 With 120 acres to work with they are produced a trail network that caters to nearly all types of riders.\u00a0 Wither you are looking to get your wheels in the air&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/9b7091d75cdb4b265945ae59b164d92a.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/9b7091d75cdb4b265945ae59b164d92a.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or wither you want to get that natural outdoor experience on a\u00a0meandering trail through the trees.\u00a0\u00a0 This place\u00a0has all of that right in Seattle&#8217;s backyard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/f53c5140893901bf15b5c974bfd81678.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/f53c5140893901bf15b5c974bfd81678.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the lines I did not hit out here \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I believe this trail was Semper Dirticus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The freeride double black diamond trails here\u00a0are quite impressive.\u00a0 On this trip it was mostly from a spectactor perspective.\u00a0\u00a0 I got the bike, I just need to develop the skills and get some testicular growth happening.\u00a0\u00a0 I did hit some of the stunts and tagged my largest gap to date to thier is hope that I will get intouch with my inner hucker at some point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/83a869a97837da05fc396e6703de4ff5.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/83a869a97837da05fc396e6703de4ff5.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of favorites from a trail with features perspective was Ryan&#8217;s Eternal Flow.\u00a0\u00a0It is more of XC trail with stunts and features more so than a series of features with a trail between them.\u00a0\u00a0Considering how close this place is I will certainly be back a few more times before this work trip is done.<\/p>\n<!-- Begin Yuzo --><div class='yuzo_related_post style-1'  data-version='5.12.81'><!-- without result --><div class='yuzo_clearfixed yuzo__title yuzo__title'><h3>More Stuff Like This<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"relatedthumb \" style=\"width:165px;float:left;overflow:hidden;\">  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My liver on the other hand felt differently after taking more than one for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,5,147],"tags":[181,466,394,266,180,265],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-mtb","category-trails","category-travels","tag-colonnade","tag-duthie","tag-green-mountain","tag-seattle","tag-wa","tag-washington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6eIyB-eG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}