Ride #2 is done. We took a couple of minutes at the rock face on Rusty for a few guys to try it out.
I think they figured it out.
Now we just need to work on getting some of them to pull off the trail when they stop, and we should be able to get into some harder trails soon.
We at least bought some good trail karma tonight, as the gang helped pull a decent sized tree out of the way that had fallen on Squirrel. Nice job, boys!
Went back to the Mice today to do a couple of little cleanup chores and to scope some lines with Andrew. The weather was spectacular. While the valley bottom was bathed in fog and gloom, it was a lot nicer up high.
Here’s a bit of a mosaic to attempt to show the scale of the rock walls on the new line. There’s 4 so far, and one more which is going to require a bit more of a run out build.
Coolie decided to send a few lines of her own today, too.
Oh, and we got rid of that deadfall on Holy Roller too.
No takers on the Fall Special (really?), but there’s a few projects I’ve been meaning to get around to anyway. Like this series of monster rock slabs that needed some shaping to link together (and you know that these things always look smaller when shot from the bottom).
After a couple of hours, this is what it looked like…
Which meant it was time to guinea pig it. I did the first run from a bump near the top. That bump was kind of freaking me out a little, but starting there necessitated a surf turn style drop in from a standing start. Kind gnarly in itself.
Nailed it…
After which I went back and hit it from the top, which was much easier. Now this line drops into a more moderate rock (as demonstrated by Dave)…
…and then into the NightStocker.
From here we’ve scouted another couple of hefty rock faces that will link straight into Holy Roller. We’ll see if we can get that done, as there’s some committed woodwork to pull off.
This coming weekend the plan is:
Only $60 per person per day. Dedicated driver, lots of vertical.