Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Turd-smoker sighting!

It's been a cold and wet winter up here in Del Norte. Enough to drive a mountain biker to desperate measures in order to get some riding in. I mean really desperate. Enough to go to (gasp)..... Texas.

Yes, a couple of amigos and I headed down to El Paso in January in search of dry trails and fresh gnarliness. We found the Redd Road trails, which had a little something for everyone - lots of cross-country desert cruising, lots of ledgy, techy goodness, and for the truly brave, the Devil's Trail! (which, needless to say, I did not attempt - the consequences for failure would have included a trip to the ER)
The next day we rode at Franklin Mountains State Park. These trails started out pretty good, but at the half-way point it became clear that we rode the loop in the wrong direction. Besides riding into a headwind, the ride finished with a mile of extremely steep doubletrack. Not fun. But hey, at least we were riding, it wasn't snowing, and there were no flat tires.

We also saw this dude smoking a coyote turd on the side of the trail. Weird.


Thanks for looking!