Ostensibly inspired by a visit from our friend DAvid (turned out he couldn’t make this ride), we headed down to Soquel Demo for a celebration of Braille Trail. We had a good crew, with Bevan pushing Chris and the rest of us to do more trials, and an appearance by Ricardo (it’s been too long!)
It was super-hot this weekend, so we decided to go to a place with “Forest” in the name. It was still pretty hot in Soquel Demo. Great two-sport day!
We’re just a couple weeks from Moab, so it’s time to test our recovery abilities. After yesterday’s epic, we had a mellow ride in Joaquin Miller with some of the kids from our youth program, including Zeke on his awesome 16″ uni. A few hikers joined us, and we ran into Yu up there, and George missing a wheel.
The California snowpack is at a 22-year high, the reservoirs are full, and we got to celebrate with a beautifully wet and muddy MUni ride. Newcomer Campbell got his first taste of redwood MUni; much different than the trails in Georgia. Ray also got a taste of MUni when he won Best Biff with a
