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August 24, 2006
Training Ride near Pinecrest Lake
I did an awesome ride today. We started with almost three hours and 4000' of climbing up to Pincrest Peak and descended the Pinecrest Peak Trail to Strawberry. The Dirty Avocados have to do this ride, fire road climbing and technical singletrack decents....awesome. I rode with my friend, Dennis "The Ogre" Baker. His report on the ride is below:
Had a great ride with Mark R. Today. We started at the river crossing on Spring Gap road and rode up to Strawberry and on up the Pinecrest Peak Climb. A little under 3 hours of climbing at something approaching my max climb speed. We found a little section of "Single Track" going up from around the end of the pavement to the Gargoyles then another new Bonus Section of singletrack which Brian Pressnall told me about which starts at the top of Pinecrest Peak (the very top where it overlooks Dodge Ridge) and winds down most of the way to the Classic Pinecrest Peak trailhead. Very, Very nice section of trail. Brian has also been working like a busy beaver on the trail and Pinecrest is in better shape than ever. I almost cleaned the new technical section he put in near the top and cleaned several tricky sections I've never ridden before. Mark endoed twice but otherwise did a great job.After Pinecrest I showed Mark the "RR Grade" which starts on the North end of Old Strawberry across from the water district. Premium stuff there and nice mellow but fun way to follow up Pinecrest Peak. Back to the car and after a quick dunk in the river we were off. About 2 1/2 hours of premium DH singletrack to match our 3 hour climb... not a bad payoff.
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Dennis Da-Ogre http://ogrehut. com
Posted by mrichardson at August 24, 2006 11:47 PM
