Tell me where you rode today...

Splash of color through the leaves led to this. Apparently he leaves his kit in the woods and returns every day he can.

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Excerpt from Day 2:
There is a line through this... somewhere...
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From Day 3 - after it dumped on us the night before... apparently these trails are like riding in England in that if you don't ride in mud you don't ride at all. Fortunately, most of the trails are so rocky, the mud is only sometimes like this:
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Some of the newer trails are still wonderful loam:
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Other sections were literally riding down through a running creek...
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Ian F said:
Excerpt from Day 2:
There is a line through this... somewhere...
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From Day 3 - after it dumped on us the night before... apparently these trails are like riding in England in that if you don't ride in mud you don't ride at all. Fortunately, most of the trails are so rocky, the mud is only sometimes like this:
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Some of the newer trails are still wonderful loam:
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Other sections were literally riding down through a running creek...
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Moosic?
 
krink said:
Moosic?
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Moon Rocks Trail. It's probably half a mile of embedded rock that looks like that. There's definitely a "line" through it all, but it's not marked at all so you either have to know or figure it out as you go. The rocks have a lot of wheel-grabbing ridges you need to traverse or be very comfortable hopping over, but the trick was knowing how far to go up a ridge before turning to traverse over to the next line - since none of it is marked. The trail is in Yellow Creek Natural Area, which is likely why no painted cues are allowed. I suppose that we're allowed to ride there at all is something to be thankful for. Much of the system is apparently "no motors" but didn't see any enforcement (there were others in our group on e-bikes, but they were definitely a vast minority at this event).

I was on the Heckler and being a full 29er, it does really well at "monster-trucking" over and through technical rocks. The ZEB on the bike is a double-edged sword. On one hand, nothing deflects it off-line, but on the other when I needed to get the front wheel up and over something it uses a lot of energy. It was interesting talking to a friend who has a Nukeproof e-bike with an EP8 motor and he never rode his while there as he was concerned about bashing the motor against the rocks. I never really thought about it, but my riding style has always used techniques to get the rear wheel over rocks and generally avoid smacking the chainring into whatever I'm trying to avoid.
 
Ian F said:
Moon Rocks Trail. It's probably half a mile of embedded rock that looks like that. There's definitely a "line" through it all, but it's not marked at all so you either have to know or figure it out as you go. The rocks have a lot of wheel-grabbing ridges you need to traverse or be very comfortable hopping over, but the trick was knowing how far to go up a ridge before turning to traverse over to the next line - since none of it is marked. The trail is in Yellow Creek Natural Area, which is likely why no painted cues are allowed. I suppose that we're allowed to ride there at all is something to be thankful for. Much of the system is apparently "no motors" but didn't see any enforcement (there were others in our group on e-bikes, but they were definitely a vast minority at this event).

I was on the Heckler and being a full 29er, it does really well at "monster-trucking" over and through technical rocks. The ZEB on the bike is a double-edged sword. On one hand, nothing deflects it off-line, but on the other when I needed to get the front wheel up and over something it uses a lot of energy. It was interesting talking to a friend who has a Nukeproof e-bike with an EP8 motor and he never rode his while there as he was concerned about bashing the motor against the rocks. I never really thought about it, but my riding style has always used techniques to get the rear wheel over rocks and generally avoid smacking the chainring into whatever I'm trying to avoid.
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You mean yellow creek in Indiana county Pennsylvania, the IMBA epic ride?
 
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