{"id":828,"date":"2011-03-14T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2011-03-14T19:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T03:55:38","slug":"iron-mountain-and-ellie-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Iron Mountain and Ellie Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been needing a\u00a0 little Iron in my diet so a ride out at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mountainbikebill.com\/IronMountain.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Mountain<\/a> near Poway was in order.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This place is pretty popular with the hikers so if you are going to ride out here\u00a0you need to plan to be real patient and\u00a0mind your trail etiquite\u00a0 as you will certainly\u00a0have plenty of interactions.\u00a0 That is\u00a0one of the reasons why it is best to do this ride on a weekday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has been some time since I\u00a0was last out here and I was quite shocked to see some of the maintenance that was done to the lower half of the Iron Mountain\u00a0trail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were lots of sections were\u00a0most of the rocks has been either removed from the trail or buried in decomposed granite.\u00a0\u00a0 While it may\u00a0make the\u00a0trail\u00a0smoother in the near term I think it will cause more erosion problems in the long-term\u00a0than it will fix.\u00a0\u00a0 There were\u00a0some sections that had been needlessly\u00a0widened and\u00a0debrushed to the\u00a0point\u00a0where\u00a0they\u00a0may never recover as the\u00a0vegitation that stabilized the soil has been removed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/679bd9bfee251ccce2226db395233a3e.jpg?resize=703%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/679bd9bfee251ccce2226db395233a3e.jpg?resize=703%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily the upper half of the Iron Mountain trails has not been touched (yet) so the iconic rocks and technical features of this trail are still intact.\u00a0\u00a0 The trail can be quite exhausting on the way up and on more than one occasion I had to stop and catch my <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">brest<\/span> breath.\u00a0\u00a0 I felt like a boob for not being able to clean some of the sections that I have\u00a0handled in the past.\u00a0<\/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\/badbfe6b27b2ef863dbf9ed660f85559.jpg?resize=703%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/badbfe6b27b2ef863dbf9ed660f85559.jpg?resize=703%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a nice break at the top it was time to play on the way back down.\u00a0 The chunk of this trail is always a challenge and we sessioned our way back down the trail.<\/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\/4ba6fc476fa7a5476e4daacf9c40a562.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/4ba6fc476fa7a5476e4daacf9c40a562.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve working an interesting line.<\/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\/4311ec75b9f52dad1436fd4940c6fb70.jpg?resize=680%2C910\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"910\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/4311ec75b9f52dad1436fd4940c6fb70.jpg?resize=680%2C910\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of numerous gnarly switchbacks.<\/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\/ef4536429c92302c88a283462d32df59.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/ef4536429c92302c88a283462d32df59.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve taking a roller<\/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\/fce9d0b1d8f8f4b7efb9cf314edcda33.jpg?resize=840%2C632\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"632\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/fce9d0b1d8f8f4b7efb9cf314edcda33.jpg?resize=840%2C632\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Iron Mountain trail we hooked up with the Ellie Lane trail.\u00a0 I had nearly forgotten how much of a grunter it is get get up up the first saddle where the downhill chunk-o-rama starts.\u00a0<\/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\/cd50ffd2d745c9ff9d1d0e101c192c1c.jpg?resize=680%2C910\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"910\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/cd50ffd2d745c9ff9d1d0e101c192c1c.jpg?resize=680%2C910\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once over the first saddle on Ellie Lane there was some high quality chunk to tackle\u00a0on\u00a0the way down.<\/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\/e44d22029a7a6e1e9ff59149707658bd.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/e44d22029a7a6e1e9ff59149707658bd.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve taking on an interesting line.\u00a0 After the first chunky descent were would have two more grunt\/hike-a-bike sections before the\u00a0final technical descent of the day.\u00a0 By the time we got down I was feeling pretty worked over but stoked to have got in some solid technical riding.<\/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\/8a9047909c62cee774dcee8a48819ce0.jpg?resize=840%2C632\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"632\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/8a9047909c62cee774dcee8a48819ce0.jpg?resize=840%2C632\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From there we had\u00a0some mellow cruising to\u00a0loop back over\u00a0to the trailhead where&#8230;.\u00a0<\/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\/0f4faa87f883b9ca16d49818e2f6de57.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/0f4faa87f883b9ca16d49818e2f6de57.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the marvels of modern MTB frame designs could be really 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