New Trails

Stoker, Bobby and I set out to find a trail that few have ridden yet. We were told it was built at the very end of last season and only know of one group of guys that have been down it. Unfortunately we had little to go on in the way of finding it. After walking all over the mountain for a good two hours we gave up and headed back to a known trail. As soon as we started getting ready to ride Bobby found "Hemlock". I can't really say this was a good thing because once we were on this new trail we discovered why nobody else has been down it. I'm sure there are people out there that enjoy trails with no flow and zero speed rock fields, but not us. It was cool just to find it and ride something new though. After that we climbed up to Avalanche and took that to Dome and lower PCP. Avalanche was new to Bobby and I. It was also a slow rocky downhill, but it had a certain flow to it and transitioned nicely into Dome. Brutal day for a shuttle. Avalanche was extremely demanding on our depleted energy stores. It is the hardest I've had to work at that low of a heart rate. 1271 calories, 13miles, 4.24hrs, 1408ft gain, 4059ft descent.

It took Stoker longer to get his camera set up than it did for Bobby to eat his lunch and find our trail.

Avalanche wasn't very nice to Bobby. I guess it safe to say Trek's have red blood.