Trails - Al's Moto Log

Dayton-Clifton Basins

We were a little bit worried with all the rain that fell Friday, but conditions ended up great overall, a little muddy in some places and bustin’ through snow drifts and dropping off cornices in other places. We ended up with quite a group, 13 altogether and it was a lot of fun.

Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/20080528DaytonClifton

Crew: Brock, Cam, Cort, Jake, Rich, Chris, Riverdance450, Zac, Zane, Braden, Nate, another Nate, and me.

Posted by al on May 24, 2008 in Trails

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Zac’s Hollow – Session #3

May 14

Awesome!

Full photo album (this crew rides too fast to get a lot of pictures, I was just trying not to hold them up too long):

http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/ZacSHollowSession3

Crew: Zac, Nate, Brandon, Tim, Chaz, Matt, me.

Notables:

These guys are fast and I’m still out of shape.
Got into some seriously thick trees
Rocky climbs were a lot harder and ground was getting looser
GPS stopped working, missed a bunch of data 🙁
Matt found out one of the stream jumps was a lot further than it looked and cased it hard on the other side, hope you didn’t have too big a headache the next morning Matt!

Highlights pics:

The GPS data is incomplete, I’m guessing we had between 30-40 miles total although the graph shows only 22.

Here are all three rides layered… pretty fun!

Posted by al on May 14, 2008 in fun, Trails

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Zac’s Hollow – Session #2

May 10

Wow… session #2 was even better than the first go-around! I’ll let the pictures talk for themselves, check out the whole album here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/ZacSHollow5102008

Crew: Zac, Zane, Nate, and myself.

Notables:

The dirt was perfect, corn dirt in most places, a little mud, a little snow, and no dust at all
Need to pick up one of these saws, Nate had one and it worked surprisingly well, thickest log we cut through was about 4 inches
A lot of the tough parts from a few days ago were a lot easier with the hook-up we were getting
Nate hitting a slick log and sitting in 6 inches of mud
Zac hitting snow at 40mph, almost making it, going down and sliding forever
Zane getting attacked by every tree that could reach him
I’m still out of shape…

The orange trail is the first attempt, the blue trail is session #2.

Posted by al on May 10, 2008 in Trails

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Zac’s Hollow

May 07

Got to go ride some private land in an undisclosed location today. It was beautiful and had a perfect mix of all kinds of riding: stream crossings, mud, rocks, climbs, trees, etc. etc… Definitely the funnest time I’ve had on my bike so far this year!

Notables:

Nate’s looped out billings montana style flip at the top of the climb
Griffin in the stream up to his knees
Griffin was the only one to make it all the way to the top of the climb
Kept raining until we were dressed and starting the bikes, then we didn’t see another drop the whole evening.
Zac barreling through trees and over logs like he had a score to settle…
Way more fun than I’m allowed to have.
I’m out of shape.

Check out the photo album here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/ZacSHollow

Here’s a couple of highlight pics:

Thanks again Zac, hope to do it again soon!

Posted by al on May 7, 2008 in fun, Trails

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First Millville attempt of 2008

April 19

We didn’t have very high hopes, but Chaz and I thought we’d give Millville a shot to see how far we could get… not very far. We were able to get about 2 miles up. At the bottom of the canyon, it was surprisingly dry, almost dusty and I started getting my hopes up, but they were shot down pretty quick as the snow showed up soft and still pretty deep on the road. We could skirt the North side of the road and through the snow for a little bit, but it started to suck. It was still fun to be out though!