Holy Jim to Trabuco this weekend???

[mikecsulb]

I will be there for sure. Its a blast to ride this trail. Does anyone want to carpool from long beach area?

[Von-Skipp]

Originally Posted by ocrider101

Thats a pretty tough ride man. upper Holy Jim and Trabuco.

nothing is as tough as blackstar to 4corners

ill be there for this ride.... and im gona be driving in if anyone dares too offroad with me!

[RidetheRAAM4]

Originally Posted by ocrider101

Thats a pretty tough ride man. upper Holy Jim and Trabuco.

the tougher the better!!!! i love the feeling of accomplishment after a tough ride

[RidetheRAAM4]

Originally Posted by IntenseKipp

nothing is as tough as blackstar to 4corners

ill be there for this ride.... and im gona be driving in if anyone dares too offroad with me!

Hopefully you don't wake up sick! We missed you on our ride on wednesday

[TURNERob]

Happy Turkey Day everyone, see you all tomorrow!

[Von-Skipp]

Yaa sorry about wednesday... I felt pretty bad (in both ways) by not showing.

Im definetly feeling better and will defintely be there. Upper Holy Jim sounds goods, especially for the the VQ/CC racers cuz we should get to know that part of HJ. Seems like we have a huge group! \/

[TURNERob]

We can always split the group up if a few want to go up and do upper HJ. Me personally I think I'll save that for another day. Hopefully all goes well as I'll be taking my Burner on its maiden voyage (had some brake line issues). [-o<

[mikecsulb]

i have a feeling ill be falling a lot tomorrow
Hey kipp Ill ride in with you in your 4 runner. My Truck is more than capable also but the sus is beat.

[RidetheRAAM4]

hey, i always win with the most number of falls

[Epic_Mtn_Biker]

Gentlemen,

unfortunate i won't be able to join you tomorrow. good luck and have fun

[ocrider]

Originally Posted by RidetheRAAM4

hey, i always win with the most number of falls

i think I still have the rechord for silv. to motorway.

[TURNERob]

Originally Posted by ocrider101

i think I still have the rechord for silv. to motorway.

I can vouch for him on that!

[RidetheRAAM4]

lol, well i am still getting used to clipless, so i cant get my feet out occasionally and just have those slow falls when you tip over and know you cant do anything about it

[Ladd Jasper]

Recap, anyone? Perhaps a pic or two? Spill it!

[TURNERob]

Originally Posted by Ladd Jasper

Recap, anyone? *Perhaps a pic or two? *Spill it!

We had a group of 7 of us, 2 showed up late so we gave em the ole 15 minute rule and had to start without them (sorry guys). The grind up Holy Jim was harder than usual, the trail is much looser and strewn with more rocks throughout the whole trail pretty much. We all made it up though and started the grind on Main Divide which was also pretty sandy/dusty. There was one climb that seemed never ending which started about 1/2 after the top of HJ, then another long grinder right before getting to Trabuco.

This was my first trip down Trabuco and I was really stoked, very fun trail to descend as compared to going down HJ. Only bad part was the group of about 20 riders who were going UP, which made for a couple of close calls and a lot of stops. Still a great ride though and perfect weather. Definately a must do on my list again! Here are a few pics I took.

IntenseKipp on Trabuco Creek road as Dino blew by him in his truck during our "rally" session.

JamR making his way to the top of the 1st long climb on Main Divide.

View of Corona/Big Bear from Main Divide.

Dino making his way to the top of Trabuco.

The group preparing to go down Trabuco.

Trabuco trailhead sign.

Couple of pics from the top of Trabuco.

[ocrider]

Definetly a great ride and a great lunch afterewards.
Heres a couple more pix.

[Von-Skipp]

Goood ride. I decided to ride Trabucco Creek Road for the extra mileage... and I'm still coughing up dust from Bretts truck. But atleast on the way out I was able to to pass trucks \/

Trabucco was reallllly sweet. Really fast and awesome rock sections. Not a big deal we ran into about 20 guys climbing/hiking the trails even though I almost rear-ended Rob....

quote on Rob for a must do again

[scott]

Greg, vondur and I must have made it about five to ten minutes after you left. *We got a couple reports of you guys as we were making our way through it the trail. *Luckily vondur was able to take Greg and I on the ride since we had never ridden there. *We saw the group at the top of the Trabuco trail "talking" about the riders coming down and the close calls too. *We were probably about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes behind you. *I was slowing Greg and vondur up most of the ride. *Vondur got a pinch flat toward the bottom of the trail, and man those tires were on there. *Need to bring some giant metal tire irons next time. *All in all it was a good ride. *Sorry about being late, misjudged that dirtroad. *Again thanks to vondur for showing the way.

Pulled this off the GPS. Its the Trubuco trail.

[RidetheRAAM4]

yeah, i loved that trail...going up holy jim was a nice warm up!! lol i want to clear all the switch backs next time instead of only half of them...and there were a few hills i couldnt clear because i let nick get infront of me and he messed up on a few of them...maybe next time add in upper holy jim....well, for me not riding up the dirt road, 18 miles seemed pretty short....next time i will join the fellows ridding in on the dirt road to add in some mileage

Very fun ride yesterday, I figured out that if you average about 30 m.p.h. driving down the Trabuco dirt road you can get to the trail head in about 12 minutes from Live Oak.

It was cool meeting ridetheraaaam4 (sp?) and his friend, those dudes can climb! Nick was haulin' down Trabuco on his SC SuperLight and had a couple minor mishaps. The climbing wasn't too bad, although I did have to walk a couple sections. The Trabuco ST was so much fun, so diverse and so much better than descending Holy Jim. The weather was perfect, the group of guys were great and all in all a good time was had!

Rob, OCrider and I hit Cooks Corner afterwards and to my surprise OCrider downed a pitcher of NewCastle by himself as well as polishing off TWO cheeseburgers and some fries. Then, he had to ride 13 more miles to get home!!! He is an animal! I'm kidding about the pitcher of NewCastle, but he really did eat 2 cheeseburgers!