another crazy weekend...

back out to the trails both saturday and sunday. rode crenshaw again saturday, and reluctantly realized that it's just too overgrown to enjoy the ride. found yet another pretty difficult trail, roughly parallel to 'slow or die,' and had a good time nonetheless... sunday i rode chumash, one of last season's favorites and another in the rocky peak area. to get to it, it's a pretty grueling 4 mile ride on a fireroad, 90% of which is uphill...

once you make it to the top, relax a little bit, and enjoy the view. ride another half mile, keeping a look out for the wooden pole signifying the start of chumash. break left, hit the trail, and you're treated with one of the best varied downhill singletracks in l.a. the first third is mildly technical, half-buried builder hopping and dropoffs, the middle third is a rolling rollercoaster ride along the edge of a cliff and between the hills, and the last third is all high speed. managed to hit 28.8 mph on that last section of singletrack, before it dumps out onto another fireroad to a residential street.

it really doesn't get better than flying down singletrack at 29mph. enough said.

additionally, i managed to get to gordon biersch both saturday and sunday nites (first-time visit to the one in orange, and then out to my regular location, in burbank).

next weekend: heading out to the river (the colorado, that is..) for a 3 day wakeboarding trip. can't wait. noon friday, and all bets are off.