The last 2 weeks I have been doing some sheer riding. I wanted to get as much riding I can get before it gets cold and snow. I'll still ride in the next month or so, hope so, if the weather will cooperate, you know, I don't really care because I can still go up and go snowshoeing or something. Anyways, I try to get some exercise no matter how I do it. It all depends on the weather outside. The last week and a half the weather has been very decent and wouldn't want to miss the opportunity.
I've been catching up some riding on Black Hill, Black Hill needed my attention because I haven't ridden up there since April or May(starting late May or early June, the skeeters get really bad and the place gets deathly hot), so, the Black Hill area is really great for the fall weather, probably the best weather because it never blows or storm that much in the fall time. It's really great.
Sorry I don't have pictures this time because I didn't want to waste time being some 'tour biker' taking pictures and being an idiot. I wanted to keep going and ride a lot without taking stupid pictures. I was having too much fun and didn't even think about anything else.
The best part of all of my rides was the "Broken Saddle Climb" on Black Hill, which is the most daring, gruelsome climbing I ever did around here. It's steep, not just short steep, but steep from the bottom of Black Hill to the very top. It's about 25-30 minutes long and the trail never levels out, maybe a couple parts but don't last long, maybe 20 seconds. Anyways, it's one of my best climbs, it's all singletrack, and sandy in most parts. The top is the worst, it just gets steeper and steeper and I just about die on that part but it's very rewarding when I get to the top and then go on a fun downhill on the other side. The climb is all VO2 max all the way baby!
Most of my rides were on Black Hill but I did go on the Flume Trail once which was last Friday and there is mud at the top. I could still ride on it but it's only maybe 50 feet of it. Everything else on the trail was great. Loved the singletrack climb up at the mouth of New Canyon until to the top where the Flume starts. Great downhill too. That is where I spent most of the summer though.
Well, this may be the last of the 'no arm warmers/jacket' weather until next spring, I think.
