{"id":2280,"date":"2020-01-02T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2020-07-13T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:09:36","slug":"rocky-start-to-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Start to the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, Mark and I decided had a rocky start to the New Year.\u00a0 \u00a0Mighty rocky!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2284\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2284 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105172.jpg?resize=840%2C999\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105172.jpg?resize=861%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 861w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105172.jpg?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105172.jpg?resize=768%2C914&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105172.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve picking through the lines. There is a line right?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/IronMountain.htm\">Iron Mountain<\/a> has some really technical bits on it and it has been some time since I have been riding on that kinda stuff so it took a little bit to my rock monkey motion dialed back in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2283\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2283 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105131.jpg?resize=768%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105131.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105131.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652105131.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I forgot to shave last night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iron Mountain is a very popular place with hikers so typically you only want to ride out here on a weekday.\u00a0 \u00a0 Coming out here on New Years Days was a bad decision on our part as far as the start and stop aspect of the ride is concerned.\u00a0 \u00a0 The people looked like a string of ants going up the mountain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2282\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652034814.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2282 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652034814.jpg?resize=768%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652034814.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652034814.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wp-1594652034814.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark dancing down the rocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trail lends itself to sessioning the various sections and &#8220;moves&#8221; 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