took a hike

Took a trip up to the forest the other day. It has been nice and sunny lately. Still pretty cold but not raining at all. We rode our bikes the day before, this day we only had time for a hike. This is the veiw from Capitol Peak.





All the forest below us is fair game for riding, all year long. There is 166 miles of singletrack and 575 miles of gravel roads. The forest area is 91,650 acres. The trails are closed to motorcycles and horses in the winter but mtn bikes and hikers are still allowed. It snows a bit in the winter and rains a whole lot but you can still ride all year long if you can handle being a bit cold.

The video isn't clear enough to see the all the volcanoes so here is a still picture of the view from the peak.



Sweet

Finally, we ride our mtn bikes.

We've had such horrible weather all winter that we haven't ridden off road at all. Except once right when we moved here when we had a chance to ride at Dash Point State Park with Whitey. That was in November. Needless to say with the recent dry spell and temps soaring up into the high 40's Kerry and I couldn't wait to get out there and explore. The weather had been clear and sunny all week. As soon as we were loaded up and hit the road to the forest it started raining. We pressed on anyway, both of us have an obscene amount of foul weather clothing. We decided to do a short ride called Fall Creek #3. It was great.

We hit some mud at the bottom of the trail.

On sunday we rode part of the Mt. Molly loop. It's a motorcycle trail so it's much wider and has berms. The trail was in pretty good shape. Here's a little sample.

and Kerry




It was fun.

There's still some snow up there.

I can't wait to ride these trails in spring!