ah, so i have ridden it both ways between the Spine and Hawk Watch. Is that the section people are nominating here? It's been a while but i don't remember it being that bad aside from a couple steep climbs and 2 "unrideable" stream crossings. Maybe i need to ride it again.White
ah, so i have ridden it both ways between the Spine and Hawk Watch. Is that the section people are nominating here?
It's been a while but i don't remember it being that bad aside from a couple steep climbs and 2 "unrideable" stream crossings.
Maybe i need to ride it again.
gotcha, so i need to ride the other part past hawk watch toward reservoir. What's that like and where do i get on it? I consider that last part before hawk watch to be part of New Way Up though so i wasn't counting it . Doing those stream crossings is impressive, Jim. Everything i've seen besides those and the new way up part i think are doable on a good day for me but again, i don't remember the whole thing so i gotta ride it again. Maybe this weekend.That's half of it. The other half goes from the Hawk Watch out to yellow near the reservoir.
Riding from the graveyard to the Hawk Watch is pretty tough. The only spot I haven't cleaned is the last bit just before the Hawk Watch. I cleaned everything else last night though, including the two stream crossings, in both directions
The other direction is hard, but not nearly as hard.
Yes. But I would say that no matter what.
gotcha, so i need to ride the other part past hawk watch toward reservoir. What's that like and where do i get on it?
Doing those stream crossings is impressive, Jim.
Everything i've seen besides those and the new way up part i think are doable on a good day for me
@JimN do you ever ride the section of white where it starts at the dirt road up the hill from the dam?
@liong71er built Jacks at HM by himself and rode up it on a single speed. I personally prefer hiking, ah I mean riding up it on my FS with gears, cause I’m mortal.Going up jacks at high mountain. Impossible!
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yellow trail to the lookout from skyline. Brutal, but awesome.
don’t know the names of the tails, but a lot of them in wildcat.
It’s amazing how good some people are. A single sped at HM for me would be a hike.@liong71er built Jacks at HM by himself and rode up it on a single speed. I personally prefer hiking, ah I mean riding up it on my FS with gears, cause I’m mortal.
I hiked up that from Orange with my wife and thought It would be an epic downhill but I haven’t tried it yet. There’s at least one spot I remember you definitely don’t want to fuck up.Another section of it that we rarely ride is behind the graveyard.
I hiked up that from Orange with my wife and thought It would be an epic downhill but I haven’t tried it yet. There’s at least one spot I remember you definitely don’t want to fuck up.
Only in pieces. I've cleared it all but I can't do it one effort, it's just a lot of climbing PLUS some super tech almost trials riding. Maybe when i'm at peak fitness I'll try.youd have to be insane, i think @graveyardman67 said he has done it.
Been there done that. Going from the road back to yellow is possible, coming in the other direction not so much.@JimN do you ever ride the section of white where it starts at the dirt road up the hill from the dam? I took yellow to the dam once, then climbed the road like half a mile and hooked left on white and rode the entire thing from there... it was pretty brutal. There’s a part I think between the road and the power line that I remember being crazy technical.
Yeah, that's true of much of the stuff listed. Lumpy, Tigers and Black Magic to a lessor extant generally have some sort of obstacle followed by pretty easy spots you can recover on and prepare for the next one.Everything else is either much shorter or connects with sections that allow for some moderate recovery.