Joplin Trail info

Ok im officially mad that I cant add my smack talking to this ride. Just keep your phones on and I'll call to talk my smack while lying in bed.:lol:

 

Couldnt make it due to a time constraint (at school right now)....

wonder how they are doin?

 

We started around 8:35 or so. Ricky and Bryan ended up turning around somewhere after Holy Jim because Ricky was pretty beat after doing Holy Jim on a heavier bike. Don't know what time they finished.

Dutch and I finished about 2:52pm. We had a moving time 4 hour and 13 minutes, and a total time of about 6 hours and 19 minutes.

 

yeah. us downhillers get our asses kicked on those kinds of rides. we got back about 1:15 to the cars and got some burritos. gotta finish that ride someday...

 

Joplin is the 'eleanor' of trails LOL

 

:lol: I woulda made it, but I didn't wanna just ditch ricky at the top of holy jim.

we WILL make it though. and you should come along too

 

when's the next one? i'll be there for sure. the 1st and only time i did joplin was at night, so i don't remember a lot of it. i do remember the poison oak i got though, that sucked. i would love to see it in the daytime.

 

rockin...

umm, iunno when our next one will be. I'm down for mostly whenever there isn't a fontana race.

 

Im in...
Yeah... Ken and I climbed up holy chim in the heat, and wanted to proceed to joplin.... we ran out of time LOL.

You guys were soo close man, just bag the dumb peak!

I ended up doing monroe truck trail in the morning on the nomad... healthy bit of climbing there too

 

whatever. next time I'm doing it.

I feel beat, and must go redeem myself :lol:

 

Like many have said, you have to earn Joplin. Just no easy way there. Even if Harding was open, it's still a stout climb from there to the saddle. You can always leave a car at Cook's, then drive to Maple Springs and go up that. Now you'll want to do Joplin even more that you were so close .

 

that I do. I'm not even tired from doing the trip to the top of holy jim and back, even though we parked out by the road. somebody gimme a date and I'll try and show up for the ride.

FWIW, it was still fun bombing down HJ and the road back to the parking lot. stream crossings are fun to splash through :bang:

 

HJ is a fun trail. Upper HJ is even funner but it is really short and you're down in minutes. I plan on adding Joplin to one of my training rides in Feb where I finish with Joplin and then the Luge. It'll be my reward for all the climbing I will do that day.

 

screw it, let's get someone to shuttle us to the top of joplin!!:lol:

 

:-k

I think I saw a sign at the top of Joplin that said, "If you didn't climb up here, you can't ride down me." :-s

:lol:

 

Yeah shuttle !

I just didn't have it today ...heavy bike a couple weeks with non stop events I just bonked

 

get that hardtail built up and we will attack it once again. if you really want. I can ride the reign and SUFFER :bang:

man that would hurt luggin a 37lb bike up HJ...

 

my morewood is close,

 

good riding with you all today, Joplin was (a) killer, and I've got some carnage to prove it. climbing to the peak was pretty grueling but definitely doable once you find a rhythm. by the time we got to the luge both jon and I had some battlescars. I'll post pics and an RR in a bit.

 

minus a few pounds, plus a lockable fork, propedal, light tires, light wheels, a granny gear...