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<\/p>\nI took the family up to Mammoth Lakes for the week to get in some vacation time. The plan is to relax, ride some trails, do some fishing and whatever else strikes as interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday we hit up the mountain for a bit of lift-assisted mountain biking.\u00a0\u00a0 It was pretty nice to spend no energy to get up 11,053 feet and then ride trails back down to the condo at 8,200 feet and many miles away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Will and Jake clowning in the gondola<\/p>\n
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The Boys at “Top of Sierra”.\u00a0 The views from here are pretty freaking impressive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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We did the Off The Top trail from the peak.\u00a0 It was pretty interesting riding above the tree line.\u00a0 Will led out like shot off like a bat out of hell.\u00a0 I was happy to see that he followed some directions on waiting at every trail intersection.\u00a0\u00a0 He actually did better than that.\u00a0 He would rip for a ways and then wait to see Jake and I to come into view.\u00a0\u00a0 Jake was a little intimdated at first with the expansiveness of the mountain side up top but after a couple of switchbacks he got the hang of it as was zipping along quite nicely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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After “Off The Top” we hooked up with “Beach Cruiser”\u00a0 that took up back down to the bottom of the gondola we took up.\u00a0 From there we picked up “Downtown”.\u00a0\u00a0 Downtown was a heck of a lot of fun that I’m guessing is around 5 miles or so long.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Here are the boys taking breather on Downtown.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes they are looking at little pooped at this point.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m guessing we did about 13.5 miles of trail riding in the morning.\u00a0\u00a0 The downtown trail is really fun and it literally comes out of the woods across the street from the condo we are renting.\u00a0\u00a0 Over lunch the boys got some energy back.\u00a0 A few hours later we were all headed back up the mountain for another run down the mountain.\u00a0\u00a0The boys were certainly good and tired after the second run.\u00a0 We spent the rest of the evening\u00a0enjoying a hearty meal and\u00a0relaxing before the\u00a0boys zonked out.<\/p>\n