Santa Monica's/Topanga Canyon State Park; Sunday, April 9th @ 7 am

[Epic_Mtn_Biker]

Who: All Advanced XC MTB'ers

What: ~40 Mile XC ride with ~5000 feet of climbing; this ride will have a lot of climbing (mainly fireroad) with loads of great singletrack descents. This ride is very scenic and fun.

Where: [SIZE=4]Santa Monica Mountains / Topanga Canyon State Park[/SIZE]

When: [SIZE=4]Sunday, April 9th @ 7 am[/SIZE]

Meet: [SIZE=4]Junction of Capri Dr. & Amalfi Dr. in northwest Brentwood Area[/SIZE]

Directions:
Exit Sunset Blvd. from the 405 Fwy. (~ 3 miles north of 10 Fwy)
go west on Sunset Blvd.
turn right/north on Capri to Amalfi Dr.
**** i'll most likely be parked on the southwest corner.

Gear: Please bring enough fluids, food and gear for this long, arduous ride.

[SIZE=4]Planned ride:[/SIZE]
Climb Sullivan Ridge
Descend Sullivan Canyon
Climb Westridge
Go thru Farmers singletrack
Descend Hectic singletrack
Climb Caballero Canyon
Traverse Dirt Mulholland Dr. onto "the Hub"
Do Eagle Rock Loop
Descend Will Rogers Backbone Trail (singletrack)
Descend J-Drop Singletrack
Climb out of Rustic Canyon onto Sullivan Ridge
Descend to Vehicles

[FoShizzle]

dude....how long will that take? i have to be back at about 1 pm (ie, leave by about 12 or so in that case)......so maybe i can at least start with you guys!

[Epic_Mtn_Biker]

i'm not sure how long, maybe a 6 hour total time.

But you could bailout via descending Sullivan Ridge after we do the Caballero Canyon climb or Farmers Singletrack. i think we should be done with that portion of the ride by then.

Either way, join us for part of the ride.

[FoShizzle]

I will be there! I will be in a red Xterra

[Pain Freak]

Dam, two epics in two days? I don't think these ol legs have it in them. I did this exact route a while back. Gawd, I love J-drop. Keep in eye out for the rangers as they were giving tickets last time I was there.

[Epic_Mtn_Biker]

any idea for the reason behind the tickets? riding right after it rains?

[singleSSpeedster]

sweet ride. i am in!!!

hopefully, i can stick around for the whole ride. i don't think it'll be a problem.

tickets on j-drop??? why????

i can understand if it's after a rain....that trail is clay.

kam

[dirttorpeedo]

armondo IM in . car pool?

[Epic_Mtn_Biker]

We can definitely carpool, Dirttorpeedo!!

[outlaw]

sunday is my only time to ride this week , so 40 miles sounds like a good way to make up for lost time. Armando, I will talk to you more about this ride sat!
see ya,
Mark

[Epic_Mtn_Biker]

Excellent ride today!! Everyone got to ride a new trail today, including myself which was my first time doing Farmer's Singletrack (santa monica mountains's version of the angeles national forest, as i've been told) & we were not disappointed!! we had a blast and kept a great pace. we were extremely fortunate not to have any sort of mechanicals/flats or issues that may have caused us to slow down.

Those who showed up today were:
FoShizzle (great meeting & riding with you!!)
Pshloss
Outlaw
SingleSSpeedster
Dirttorpeedo

Thanx for showing up for this one guys!!

We ended up cutting Sullivan Canyon & Westridge out of the ride today because of reports that the canyon had an excessive amount of water flowing thru it. the weather was very cool in the morning which made it great conditions for all the climbing that we planned. the single tracks were very rutted but it made for a very technical and challenging but exciting time!!

Stat's:
25.45 miles
4500+ elevation gain (according to Pshloss)
25.9 max speed
7.1 avg. speed
3:33:13 actual ride time

[pshloss]

Excellent call on this one Armando! The weather was perfect, the early start was a good call, too. Those were some wild singletracks, for sure. Props to the singlespeeders for doing those, especially FoShizzle on the full rigid 29er. That's definitely going on the short list for a return trip soon.

[FoShizzle]

Originally Posted by Epic_Mtn_Biker

Excellent ride today!! Everyone got to ride a new trail today, including myself which was my first time doing Farmer's Singletrack (santa monica mountains's version of the angeles national forest, as i've been told) & we were not disappointed!! we had a blast and kept a great pace. we were extremely fortunate not to have any sort of mechanicals/flats or issues that may have caused us to slow down.

Those who showed up today were:
FoShizzle (great meeting & riding with you!!)
Pshloss
Outlaw
SingleSSpeedster
Dirttorpeedo

Thanx for showing up for this one guys!!

We ended up cutting Sullivan Canyon & Westridge out of the ride today because of reports that the canyon had an excessive amount of water flowing thru it. the weather was very cool in the morning which made it great conditions for all the climbing that we planned. the single tracks were very rutted but it made for a very technical and challenging but exciting time!!

Stat's:
25.45 miles
4500+ elevation gain (according to Pshloss)
25.9 max speed
7.1 avg. speed
3:33:13 actual ride time

i had a great time riding with you dawgs! thanks so much! i look forward to getting back from my vacation to explore some more new trails......but i am thinking maybe i will bring a real bike next time with you DH aggromaniacs!

[outlaw]

thanks armondo, goin down j-drop with you and dirttopeedo had to be the frosting on the cake what a wild ride, we ripped that trail a new one huh thanks pshloss for the carpool,also great riding with the shizzle, and singlesspeedster, well ride soon,


later,mark

[singleSSpeedster]

wooow....great riode today guys!!!

a few spills (ok, atleast me, on hectic and j-drop) but ther ride went smooth.

man, this ride and two league baskeball games....i am BEAT...gotta hit the sack!!!

hope to ride with you all soon!!!

p.s. this ride has become one of my all time favs.!!!

[FoShizzle]

Originally Posted by outlaw

thanks armondo, goin down j-drop with you and dirttopeedo had to be the frosting on the cake what a wild ride, we ripped that trail a new one huh thanks pshloss for the carpool,also great riding with the shizzle, and singlesspeedster, well ride soon,


later,mark

Hey mark....did you ever sort out why your bike all of a sudden became uber-plush?

[dirttorpeedo]

well i finally got to do a ride of epic proportions. all the climbing was worth sore ovary muscles. everyone on the ride was a good time to ride with. ive riden with a couple of guys and the others i met were cool. foshizzle i hope your menstral cramps are better today, i know my ovaries are going to be sore a couple days. mark nice riding w/meeting you. seeing the beach fome the trail on the way down was so romantic, puuurrrrrfect way to end the ride

[outlaw]

quote=FoShizzle]Hey mark....did you ever sort out why your bike all of a sudden became uber-plush?[/quote]
I know you dont want to here this but, "IT'S A TURNER 5 SPOT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!" Just kidding (or am I) everythings fine I think it was to much extra water in the camelback . see you on the next one.

[dirttorpeedo]

i didnt have the heart to just KILL it so i kept it. i took it home, turned it upsidedown,turns out its a boy! so i took it home and i'm going to feed it and pet it and love and sqweeze it and give it some blood and call him george.! actually i got him from outlaw, didnt know i took him did you? now he's mine all mine. i'm going to pet him and love him and call him george.

[outlaw]

Is it the white one from the bottom of j-drop,if so he was definetaly mine first and i want visitation , untill we get this whole custody battle figured out, just make sure you let him bore into your skin everynight for at least one hour to feed. poor little basdard cant have to dads what will all the other ticks think