Next Noob/Social Ride - Turnbull 5/28/11

This talk of pads . . . is not sounding too noob friendly.

 

lol. I always wear my knee pads. Been doing it since I crashed at marshall

 

Sandbagger alert! LOL

 

With 220+ posts and 6000+ views, this ride better be good! :lol:

 

road fullerton loop today with my new clip in and feeling good about it

 

Sounds like something Steve C would say.

 

Can everyone who's going to ride please rsvp so we can get a head count. I don't want to take off up the hill and leave anyone behind. http://www.socaltrailriders.org/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=3281

 

Hes down on his knees enough, that he needs to have them very handy #-o

 

his are permanantly attatched.

 

Funny with all the noob smack talk going on and I haven't seen Fred post anything :?:

 

he's been hiding ever since gray posted that pic of fred and ricky getting cozy

 

BTW anyone get in touch with Chris ?

 

nothing yet. nobody has his cell and he hasn't responded to my PMs. hope he's doing ok. steve said he knows somebody that has chris' cell #.

 

^ what he said.

oh, and just rode turnbull today. looks like someone took a weed whacker to a-line and parts of cow trail, so there is a lot less thistle then there used to be. escalator was cleaned up by someone a week or so back, as well.

have a great ride out there!

 

thats such good news. those plants suck the life out of my hands and everything else that comes in contact with that. anyone know what route you guys might do.

 

I'm a big fan of the fireroad > 7th > A-line and maybe throw Rattlesnake and the climb back up the fireroad again in there.

 

^ That's the route I took today minus the climb back up. A-line is a lot nicer now that it's trimmed back. Thanks to whomever tackled that. 7th street is in fine shape as well. The thing that I like about the trail from cowtrail to the college is that I hardly if ever see any foot traffic. A-line almost always has traffic on it. I was thinking that would be a better, more flowier way to go especially with the number of riders in the group. :-k I did say I've never set up one of these right? :lol:

 

You have a really good point. The random, often oblivious, earphone wearing hikers and climbers on A-line kill the flow when it's just one person, but with 15-20+ it would be pretty bad. I think that your path might be a better choice and I may be up for another climb up the fireroad to hit a-line if others wanted to after we finished.

 

Exactly! Yesterday I was going up the fireroad and I had a jogger in front with his headphones on cut all the way from the right to the left side of the trail right as I was passing him. I was ringing my bell and saying "on your left" but he didn't hear anything. I tell ya, they're more dangerous than the trail sometimes.

 

If ever we hit cow trail to Whittier College, don't we have to climb back up to the trailhead or Beverly Ave via the roads like Painter Ave?