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<\/p>\nLast weekend I was able to squeeze some time off from my work here in Japan to get in some mountain biking on Mount Eboshi near the city of Sasebo in the southern part of Japan.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather was pretty freaking awesome.<\/p>\n
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Nearly all of the climb was done on narrow mountain pavement roads which had some pretty steep bits.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There was some mighty pretty roadside views along the way to the top.<\/p>\n
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Once I got up to the peak of\u00a0Eboshi I was treated to nice\u00a0views of the Sasebo\u00a0City below.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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I went down the backside of Eboshi and linked up with a network of trails that are typically fun and often challenging.\u00a0\u00a0 The crappy rental bike I had made some of the technical bits even more sporty.\u00a0\u00a0 The clunk-a-clunk fork mades some sections\u00a0downright scary.\u00a0 (Clunk a clunk is the sound it make everytime you go over a rock of any size)<\/p>\n
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I had forgotten just how many bannana spiders were out and about on these trails.\u00a0\u00a0 I can not fully express the invigoration that occurs when you go through one of thier webs and the spider plants squarely in the middle of your face.\u00a0\u00a0 There are harmless but I find that my\u00a0mind fails to properly communicate that to my body as I seem to be incapable of not wigging out when one of these spiders takes and unplanned ride on my nose while I’m cruising down the trail.<\/p>\n
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I came around a bend in the trail and thought I was witnessing the start of the Zombie Apocalypse!\u00a0\u00a0 That is one crazy looking root.<\/span><\/p>\n This is part of the trail.\u00a0 Actually I’m standing at a trail junction.\u00a0\u00a0 The trail I was on actually goes off to the right (not shown here).\u00a0\u00a0 It is not until you goe about 40-50 yards down this rock\/creek bed until the other \u00a0“trail” gets back onto dirt again.\u00a0<\/p>\n Once you get back on the dirt you are treated to a narrow singletrack craved into the side of the very steep hillside that goes on for about a mile.\u00a0\u00a0 Above is one of the few spots where the thick foilage opens up to show civilization below.\u00a0\u00a0 After this trail I hit up another handful of trails before zipping back down the mountain and calling it a day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A mighty fine way to spend an afternoon on a bike.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/6478dc505cbda7abc60f679d260de4da.jpg?resize=607%2C911\")
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