So, we decided to change things up a bit and go for a kinda new ride... Hector had sold us on this super awesome ride through wildwood with the best singletracks ever! Unfortunately he couldn't make it today, but Scott and I decided to forge ahead with the plan...... (should have done the regular ride instead).
Well, as soon as we started climbing up the hill, I noticed a sign... "Private Property" ... hmmm... that wasn't there before... so we just kept going. When we climbed to the top, the ground was full of broken glass, looks like the locals who owned the property was having a good time up there. But since we made it up the hill, we decided to keep going... that was a mistake... The "singletrack" turned into an animal trail, that was overgrown with CACTUS... by the way, did I mention the broken glass? Well it was also on the "singletrack". We finally found our way after getting lost at the top of the hill, to Santa Rosa trail. This was actually a really nice trail other than the fact we were climbing more than descending... we were going downhill... in an uphill way.... Oh, we were still looking for the crazy wicked "singletrack". Finally when we got to the top of the hill, we got a 1/4 mile drop into Wildwood, which I have to admit was fun except for the hikers who kept getting in the way, and the switchbacks that were so tight we couldn't ride them (I think the hikers made it that way on purpose... yeah). We rode the main fireroad in Wildwood up to the parking lot to pick up a map of the area, only to find that most of the trails are marked "hikers only", leaving us the fireroads... Well I told Scott that it a section down the hill didn't look too bad and it should be fun to ride, so we proceeded to drop 500FT or so into the valley. I was so excited when we finally dropped to the bottom of the valley to find the killer "singletrack", which unfortunately looked more like a fireroad. All wasn't lost as we managed to get lost and climb a Hell Hill like singletrack with switchbacks that was barely rideable, oh did I mention the overgrown cactus? So after climbing another fireroad we did manage to find a decent trail unfortunately it was uphill at that point, again overgrown with cactus. We decided it was time to quit and headed back to the parking lot only to find Scott had a flat tire. So after a quick change and a friendly guy with a floor pump giving us a hand, we were rewarded with a 3 mile ROAD ride back to the cars. Yes, a fantastic road ride on mountain bikes. But the BEST part is when I got home, both of my tires were flat... did I mention the overgrown cactus?
In summary, uphill, uphill, cactus, fireroad, uphill, cactus, road, 3 flat tires....
Wish you were there Hector!
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Google Maps Link
http://www.garafa.com/GPSKit/tracks/2390c9bcc8697028e6d9bc88c39c51ca6a681d1e_42.kml
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