{"id":1222,"date":"2013-12-30T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:06:06","slug":"san-juan-trail-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"San Juan Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I needed to pedal off so Christmas cookies calories so Dave and I headed up to the San Juan Trail<\/a> to get in some climbing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure there are\u00a0some Thanksgiving Turkey, Halloween Candy, San Diego Beer Week and Octoberfest calories to be dealt with as well \":-)\"<\/p>\n

\"SJT-27DEC13-02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was\u00a0a bit cool at the trailhead but just a few switchbacks up the trail it was quite comfortable.\u00a0\u00a0 The day turned out of to be simply awesome with warm sun and superbly\u00a0clear skies.\u00a0 San\u00a0Clemente and Catalina Islands were easily seen.\u00a0 The further up we climbed the more impressive the views became.<\/p>\n

\"SJT-27DEC13-06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have been spending most of my riding time lately on my XC hardtail so taking out the my long-legged UZZI with it additional weight and heft on this ride was quite a bit more work on the climb.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was quite happy to see cocktail rock when we got there.<\/p>\n

\"SJT-27DEC13-09\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We did the traditional loop at the top in the counter-clockwise direction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I had not forgotten how fun this trail can be but I had been away from it just long enough for each to turn had a bit of \u201cOh I remember you\u201d excitement to it.<\/p>\n

\"SJT-27DEC13-10\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The main descent back to the trailhead was a rip roaring hoot.\u00a0\u00a0 I have ridden this trail in what I would call perfect conditions before where the dirt could be best described as \u201cHero Dirt\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That was not the case on this day, I would call it \u201cNormal\u201d which\u00a0was\u00a0also great.\u00a0 \u00a0It was the kind of dirt where you could easily overdue it in the turns and ending up loosing control.\u00a0 But\u00a0if you\u00a0paid attention\u00a0you could hear your\u00a0tires and the dirt telling you when you were approaching the limits of traction.\u00a0 I had big stupid grin on my face every time I was able to make the tires and dirt sing to me in the turns as my long-legged bike was shining in gravity direction it is optimized for.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We polished off a great\u00a0day of riding with some tasty burritos in San Juan Capistrano before heading back to\u00a0casas.<\/p>\n

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