Hey Matt we gotta do these two rides one saturday...
The Santa Ana River trail in just below Big Bear and the Cannell plunge in Bakersfiels. I did the SART on Fri and it was awesome . alot of ST and the climbs are funn! Anyways these guys I went with are doin cannell plunge july 3rd... I was thinking about it... here's the link and you can also find the SART on here too.
http://www.mountainbikebill.com/CannellPlunge.htm