"Official" Riding Season Comes to an End
Snowflake Ride Report: On October 24th the gang headed out for a ride to the wonderful trails in Snowflake. We had a good turnout and were fortunate to have Rick Brimhall come out and lead. It was reasonably warm, and we had huge puffy clouds out there to keep us entertained for thirteen miles. Thanks Rick!
NO GROUP RIDE THIS WEEKEND: As much as having that Halloween ride in costume in the Buena this coming Saturday to close out the season sounded last week, the reality is that mother nature is not going to cooperate with us on the idea. According to the National Weather Service, rain should start sometime after 11:00 a.m. on Friday, and is likely to continue until the wee hours of the morning on Saturday, and the chance of this occurring is about 80%. While the amount of predicted precipitation is not particularly high (somewhere between .10 and .25 anticipated during that period), the timing is bad and the soils in the Buena are already thoroughly saturated. I just don't see it happening.
It's OK though. With all of the trail work that has been going on, we didn't have time to decorate the trails properly anyway. We'll bring the tradition back in a big way next fall, when we have more time to do it up right!
Chihuahua Pines Work Completed: The TRACKS trail crew was out there on Monday, October 26th finishing up the build project on Chihuahua Pines on the east side of Highway 60. The crew braved some marginal trail work conditions due to wet soils, but we put the finishing touches on what was certainly one of the more difficult builds we've taken on. Huge thanks to everyone who came out to help with the construction over the last month or so.
If you've not checked out the new Chihuahua yet . . . it is highly recommended if you find some time available when it isn't raining the the trails are dry enough. You'll find it at the bottom of Flintstone, and it runs 8/10 of a mile all the way down to the tunnel under U.S. 60. There's some good fun riding in there, and it sure needs some tires on it to help break it in. The recommended direction of travel is down, and it is serves as a nice extension of the Flintstone downhill.
If you ride Chihuahua back up to Flintstone, you will meet the same four bermed corners you previously descended on your climb up. Coming up hill, those corners are named Pestilence, War, Famine and Death, after the biblical four horses of the apocalypse. Going down they are sure fun, but coming back up you may understand their names a little better. If you don't want to ride back up Chihuahua you can always be more humane to yourself and ride back up the old Chihuahua Pines road and connect to a short non-system social trail to take you back up to Old Scott Tank just off of Juice Tree.
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