On Sunday I thought it’d be fun to go ride some firelanes that I haven’t touched in a few years. I went down and up firelane 10 (which starts across Germantown from Leif Erickson). I remembered that it was BS before, and it still is. If you do it, it’s best to ride down from Newtown instead of from Germantown up to Newton. I didn’t have to walk, but I had to stop for a minute to stop from throwing up in my mouth.

I went over to Springville and down Firelane 7. I had been thinking I can totally go down the bottom, which is very steep and rutted. So I flew down 7 to the steep part and unclipped so I could bail out. I made it down 20% of the steep section, but there were a few things I had to get off for and it’s too steep to get back on the bike. It was Moab steep and I had my stomach behind my seat.

I thought it sucked that I had to walk sections of it, so I went back up via Saltzman to do 7a – which shoots to the left of 7 near the bottom. There was more bomber trail until it’s steep section. I unclipped again and just rode on my toes. 7a is actually rideable and I eeked down it to Leif Erickson and started screaming like a little girl. I thought my brakes might be hot so I dropped water on them and instantly it hissed and steamed.

On Saturday Ron and I went out to Hood River and went mountain biking on Surveyors Ridge. It normally takes 1h 5min to get there but I got us to Hood River in 45 minutes.
The ride got 4 or 5 cranks in the book so it looked like it’d be a lot of fun. Ron said it was the worst ride in the history of biking. I’m not sure it was that bad, but it did suck. It was 14 miles up and then the down hill still had ups. And there were no bomber sections except for one 5 foot long area.
I was cruising down one area and while thinking of trains and trying to avoid the bushes that were constantly slapping our faces my right tire veered off the trail and turned 90 degrees. So I flew over my bars and skidded to a stop on my left arm. I spent the next 5 minutes walking around swearing and throwing rocks at trees.

Ron’s Pic

So that sucked and it didn’t really get any better.
Don’t do Surveyors Ridge. Unless you’re those guys from Hood River who ride up from town (15 miles) and ride up the ridge and back down. But they’re sick in the head.