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RR: A very knobby weekend
What a great freaking weekend I had and each day of it involved a bit of mountain biking.
Saturday, my boys and I built up some trail karma by joining up with nearly 40 volunteers to open up the Vista Del Mar trail at the the Rancho La Costa Preserve in Carlsbad.  With that many volunteers we made quick work of finishing up the new trail and decomstructing/rehabing the old one. With five sponsors for this event there was a killer schwag fest afterwards that had everyone walking away with something. After that we went and gave the trail some traffic and it was really cool.  More about Saturday Here. Sunday morning was to be a fairly quick run through the San Clemente Singletracks in order to get back home to see the Chargers vs Patriots game. (Yes, I know I’m still slacking on getting a page on this place put together) I was meeting some folks up there but failed to realize they were meeting near the beach end of the place. I went to the Dog Park start and did not figure out my mistake until it was time to roll. It worked out well as I had a nice solo roll through a good chunk of the park to warm up with before meeting up with the group somewhere along “no-turns”. After meeting up with the group it was apparent they were pushing a good pace. Since I’m still having to single speed things right now, that was exactly what I was doing. Either pushing or having a good pace. Considering my current state of physical fitness it was a little too much pushing. If I keep riding the SS that will go away soon enough. I rode with the folks for the better part of thier route which included some loop-backs onto stuff I had done earlier in the day. I’m still getting to know this place and they took some turns that I would not have done otherwise. By the time I split off from the group I figured I had done somewhere around 15 miles or so and I still had to make my way back up to the dog park from near the south end of the system. By the time I got back to my truck, my arms and lower back where fried. Ahhh the joys of single speeding!  Monday started off looking like my plans to take the boys out riding was not going to happen due to the rain. We had a cool time just hanging out and watching a movie but by 1PM the boys were itching to ride. I let them know that the only place we could go without mucking things up was Daley Ranch which would mean a bunch of climbing. They said there were up to it so we loaded up and headed out to the trail.  They throughly impressed me on this ride and we had a great time.  (I know...Nice Socks!) I introduced them to hike-a-biking by way of the East Ridge Trail.  They really had a great time and they reminded me just how awesome it is to be a Dad sometimes.   Here is the rest of the story from Daley Ranch. -Bill Last edited by MTBBill : 01-21-2008 at 09:26 PM. Reason: tiepoohs |
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And that shot of the s-turns at San Clemente is a gorgeous piece of trail!
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You are a lucky Man!
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Those pictures of your kids are classic! Looks like you had a great time.
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Great Dad!
Did you tell your boys that all good rides have at least one HAB? C
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Pictures of your boys say a thousand words. Good job!
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Seems like quite a few of us dad's had the same idea this past weekend. My son and I tooled around Peter's Canyon and had a great time together. BTW, those last two pics are awesome, what it is all about.
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You're blessed. Thanks for sharing.
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Freakin' BEAUTIFUL Bill!!!
As always, the pictures speak 1000 words!
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your photos, they are always much appreciated.
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