I hit Grand Ridge at about 2pm. Out and back up to Duthie. Took a bit longer that I was thinking, due to lots and lots of culverts that needed to be opened up. It was dark, and started snowing big fat flakes about halfway back. Thankfully I had just bought a new light (NR Lumina 650--which was awesome). It would have been pretty magical, if I wasn't so cold (shorts and regular gloves FTL). I had recently ridden in Phoenix, and had taken off my cut tube water blocker thing on my fork, which meant I was totally drenched most of the ride. Took me nearly an hour to feel my toes again.
Sure beats sitting on the cough though.
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." ~Isacc Asimov
Went over to Leavenworth to pick up freshly mounted skis and take the kid out on the groomed stuff. Got stuck waiting for the skis to be done (a long story) a lot longer in town than we'd wanted to and decided it was looking bad enough that we'd skip going back over Blewett and went through Wenatchee-Quincy/AL area-I90 via Vantage back home.
tl;dr version: it's snowing hard clear out to the basin and you do NOT want to be driving in it tonight. Pass is closed both directions, saw a vid of the Sehaptin outfitters guys skiing down the main drag in Cle Elum which looked like the best plan for the evening by far.
"...Some local fiend had built it with his own three hands..."
Rode Tokul East this morning at 8am. First car in the lot and it was dry. There was dusting of snow on Flowtron, but it rode pretty nice. It started raining hard when we got back to the car around 11am but the entire parking area was full.
Rode Tokul East this morning at 8am. First car in the lot and it was dry. There was dusting of snow on Flowtron, but it rode pretty nice. It started raining hard when we got back to the car around 11am but the entire parking area was full.
Next time you ride Flowtron it'll be flowier. Great building weather today, stayed fairly dry until we bailed at 2:00. Ground was super duper extra saturated.
I rode Saturday am, came in just as the rain started. Sunday I conducted a walking tour of PVCA for the Big Finn Trails Committee; very illuminating for the KC Parks staff member and the non-riding committee members who attended (illuminating for me too: never walked Cedar Run before!). Got wet, but got done before it started to really dump.
Bryan and I cut trees off of the trails at Duthie today. I had the hard hat on before i got out of the truck. we didnt get to check everything out, i know there more down stuff out there, so keep a look out.
Enjoy
Epic trails get built in the Northwest by epic people!
I rode Duthie yesterday and moved branches and trees where I could off of the XC trails. There was only one blocking tree ~12:00 on any of the XC trails, and that was about halfway through Movin' On on an easy option bypass of the first large humpy boardwalk. I saw someone with a chainsaw in the easy walkup area and mentioned that tree to him that wasn't Tyler, so that must have been Bryan?
PVCA was generally ok, but on foot we didn't see most of it. I took the group out Mainline, up Two Trees, down Cedar Run, back in via Lloyd and Mainline. lots of small puddles, only really big one was at the bottom of Cedar Run and Southern Traverse. I hear the upper part of Red Alder still has big puddles, but that's the area they're working on right now.
We rode Duthie last night from 8pm to 9:30pm, hit nearly every trail and there was zero blow down blocking any trails. We move a few branches, but nothing major was blocking that we saw. Either the winds havent hit the area too hard, or people have been doing a great job keeping the trails clear!
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Originally Posted by Jaybo
Cap Forest pics are way cool.
