From what he said, he basically shat himself, the lion looked over at him and then kept on it's way.

The only thing I would like about riding FDLT from the lower lot is finishing the ride with that sweet singletrack downhill as opposed to that nasty massive climb up drivers flat rd.

 

Here is a photo of my 40lb beast of a bike! And please no jokes about the WW Shakes in the background...I know I'm fat.

 

I'm riding after work tomorrow. If you want to go hit me up

 

I think I'm going to get up there at 5:30...

 

So I cleaned my bike last night. I should take a picture of the mud streak it left on the garage floor. There was an assload of mud, including some up in my rear caliper. I had to take the wheel off and clean in there, still didn't get it so I had to ride and drag the brake for about 50 ft to clean it out

 

looks like tomorrow will be bad for me....deadline owned at work...
prolly be a bad time all week and perhaps sat too...

 

Yeah I'm out for Saturday. I forgot that I have testing at Sac State on Saturday so I won't be able to ride.

I was planning to ride tomorrow too. Nobody wants to go ?

 

I can't make it tomorrow.

Are you still planning to ride on Sunday?

 

Can you do tonight? :wiggle:

I'm down to ride Sunday for sure.

 

Nope. 5:00 meeting ownz me.

 

It was nice up there today. Dude, traffic on Auburn/Folsom sucks ***. I need to learn the area over there better I've done the drives out salmon falls how many times and I still can't find the damn road? I didn't even bother today and just went straight up to Auburn. Not again!

Not too much traffic up there today. Some people riding Clementine, one guy on a bike with two women jogging at Quarry (where I rode). One of the chicks was pretty cute, she pulled her shirt up (had a sports bra on) and showed off her AWESOME stomach. The trail was mostly dry, which was nice, though it was a bit overgrown. You could tell in some spots where there were some good rock slides and mosquitos were out in full force today. So was just about every other bug. I think I ate one of each . I felt WAY better riding today than I did on Saturday so hopefully I'll keep improving. I'm getting a tiny bit better at climbing.

Anyway..

From the parking lot:



The water was moving fast today:



I love it up here. Half the fun of being here is the accomplishment (for me) of the climb. It's not too steep, but it's a long climb and I can do it without rest :wiggle:

 

nice shots.

i'm stuck riding my office chair for the next few days.

maybe i'll start the mid-week ride next week.

 

Matt, where is that Quarry place you rode. That looks pretty nice. I'd get owned on the climbing part, but I guess I would walk it like normal

 

It's down at the confluence below Auburn.

Basically - go to Auburn, get on 49 down in to the canyon, follow 49 like you're going to Cool. About half mile after you cross the river heading up to cool there is a parking lot to the left. Park in there, then head down the trail. You'll go downhill for a few minutes and then you'll come up to a small picnic area and a beefy climb. At the top of the hill, you'll notice you can either continue on straight, or make a uturn and head up yet more hill. You'll go up 2 switchbacks and open up in to this *****in quarry

 

Sorry Matt - I didn't get your voicemail until I got out of my meeting at 10:00AM.