Ashley suggested that we go check out the new trail system at Crockett Hills. Jim Johnson, builder of Tamarancho, and the BTCEB have gotten permission to build singletrack trails through a park that’s mostly open grazing land (pockmarked and smelly, like most of the EBRPD grazing land), with a few nice oak groves to break up the heat.
It’s reasonably nice stuff for a big wheel, but it’s too smooth for real MUni. The first flow trail is fun, the second one not really worth the extra ride. Doing the first one twice is probably the winning move.
Unfortunately this place is going to be blazing hot in the summer, and unrideable in the winter because of clay soil. But it’s nice to have another option out there, especially since it’s the first time EBRPD has allowed any construction of cycle-legal singletrack on their land. (And they have a lot of land, more than any other agency in the East Bay.)
