- Trailhead: Sycamore Campground- Miles: 13
- Weather: crystal clear night
- Temp: cool for CA
- Trail Conditions: nice hardpack
- Wildlife: reports of Bobcats last week, nothing this week. Some wacky night birds were flying in our lights at dusk, looked like small hawks
Notes: Met up with Ron about 5:00 and we rode the usual Sycamore route...up Backbone and down Guadalasca. Not so "usual" at night! The ride up was the best I've had, in part due to the recently "groomed" single track now packed to manageable condition. I actually only stopped once on the ride up to the first overlook...typically I have to stop a dozen times on this trail! The overlook was phenomenal, stars everywhere. Two other riders showed up and everyone shut the lights off to take in the night sky view. Once we got to the final overlook before the Guadalasca trailhead, Ron snapped some shots of the city lights below. Stars and city lights everywhere, the clearest night Ron had seen here. Just awesome! Only downers were...Hector could not make the ride, Tim's afraid of the dark, and Scott was on a plane coming home from turkey gulping.
The downhill run was a bit freaky. You have to have your lights just right in order to see what's ahead on the single track in time to react...crazy fun! Once we got to the bottom of the canyon, it got DAMN cold. It was actually warmer on the summit.
After the ride, Ron provided the usual ever so generous fixings of trail mix, choco chip cookies, and New Belgium Brewing Company's Fat Tire Amber Ale!! I'm convinced that this could be my new favorite micro brew. Later on we met up with Hector for some more carb loading at BJ's Brewhouse...good times!
Happy Trails,
OMMB
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| (Did not track full distance, but captured all that was ridden) |
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