Payoff

Lots of times mountain bike rides are all about payoff. You can climb for miles or hours but it's really only worth it if the downhill is as rich as the chocolate flowing through Switzerland. That describes Saturday.

Stu and Dane picked us up around 10 and we headed out for a new trail. Before hitting that trail we rode on some oldie but goodies. Charlton out and around Lemish was fun as usual, then we connected to Waldo and took the Bettie Lake trail upwards. We passed at least three lakes on that trail and popped out on the road. After a short ride up the rode singing songs and joking around, we came upon The Twins. The Twins is a brutally steep climb up. It is just under 4 miles with somewhere close to 2000' of climbing and the peak tops out around 7300'. Steep. It's gorgeous landscaping up there with big boulders, trees, rock outcroppings and ponds.

The descent was better than words can describe. I took no pictures of it because we were going too fast and furious.

And now for the few pics I took.

















HAPPY MONDAY