Regardless of what conditions were, it was a nice bonus to be able to get out on a mountain bike in mid February. We left the parking lot and headed left (north) along the edge of the park as we gradually climbed. After a little climbing, we got dumped out on to an old paved road (used to be old highway) and we continued to climb as we bird-dogged the areas off the road for trails...as we climbed higher, a trail appeared and we opted to get back on dirt and see where said trail would take us.
The trail continued up the ridge for a while where is started to get a little less than ideal. Despite the recent warm spell, the trails was a little sloppy up high. We crested at a viewpoint where we stopped for a little and tried to piece together the surrounding geography. We could barely see some of the Cascade range due to cloud cover, but we could clearly make out where Tumalo was. As we rode we got peaks at Smith Rocks and saw that it was raining pretty hard out towards the Ochocos.
We turned around and started the descent. We hit the first junction and headed downhill on Sandy Wash which was brilliant! The trail was packed, fast, flowy, and did I say fast??? It was the highlight of the day and it seemed to go by way too fast. Soon enough we were back at the car and packing to head home. Unfortunately my computer started but then I must have hit a button as it recorded all of about 1 1/2 seconds of ride time. Being the data geek I am, there was no data to look at...it will have to wait until the next ride out there.
It was roughly a 2 hr ride with some good exploratory riding on the dusted off singlespeed -
Good times!
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