Another great SPH weekend!

Got in a little riding and got Graham out on some trails (along with some yard work, and a trip to the zoo among other things). Saturday turned out to be a pretty much perfect day to do just about anything.

Woke up Saturday morning at 5 to get in a couple of laps before a big day of mulch work, accurately assuming that we'd be working into the kids' naps so wouldn't have a great window for riding. I headed out to the garage and found my front tire mostly flat... don't actually fix it... just pump it up!

Headed up the Cowpath for the first time of the year. It went alright. I sort of want a technical but more SS friendly path around the big rock... but sort of don't want to cheapen the trail... yeah... getting off and walking isn't a problem. No ride around!

The trails were a bit damp from the morning dew, but other than getting a little dirty it was pretty much perfect. On my second lap, I noticed that my rear tire was now pretty much flat... GAH! Up the ski trail climb and out to the meadows to head back. I ended up blasting some CO2 into it and it held all the way home. I PROBABLY should actually look into it and make sure I don't have anything destroying tubes...

Love the views on the South Side of the bluff

The views on the North Side are also pretty good in places

After naps and yardwork was complete we headed back up the bluff as a whole family and Graham got to hit some singletrack. 4 loops of our personal "green loop" (with a couple of re-rides of the "hill") and he was excited but exhausted. Carly was toting Jillian in the backpack so she was a bit pooped out too... a solid day!

Carving a curve on the "hill"

"Riding" the log skinny

She's got personality

A beautiful weekend!

Carly was working so it was a "Mr. Mom" type weekend. Saturday ride plans had to be scrubbed due to lack of tried and true babysitting options... while I think Bubble Guppies could do it for a lap of the bluff I don't know that I should test those waters...

Because of the no Saturday riding, I decided to take off of work Friday afternoon. Met a couple of fellow SPHers up on the hill for what proved to be a fun and exhausting ride! 3 turned to 2 turned to myself for the last of 3 laps. The hills were definitely getting tougher on the last 1/2 of the lap! And I skipped Stairway on laps 2 and 3 along with skipping the Quarry on 2 and 3.

I did attempt a section of Southern Cross on lap 3... possibly my favorite 10 yards of trail on the whole bluff. It's not IMBA approved... it's not pretty... in fact it keeps getting worse... did I make it?

If I have a picture of it... I don't think I made it. Love the challenge of the roots! There is probably a better line but you have to just throw yourself at this wall...

Saturday Graham and Jillian hit a section of singletrack for a couple of little loops. I was walking with J in the backpack... Graham "shredding" on his balance bike... he loves it. Can't wait to see how he progresses (if he does... no pressure from my end) and picks up pedaling later this spring/summer.

You can make a fairly nice "green" loop out of most of Margaritaville... 

Graham has such a game face on... he really does say he had a lot of fun!

This Past Weekend

So far the weather has been spotty for allowing lots of biking/family time (and work has been stupid nuts).

But this weekend was pretty good and other than throwing out my back moving a boulder was pretty good.

The drive to check on roads for the 'Rok went well. Tasty new section of MMR just south of Millville was found, though to our knowledge there is no public way to get over a little stream...

Graham biked (balance version) for at least 3.5 miles yesterday... lots of gliding and a little singletrack thrown in. In a couple of weeks the trails will be open, so we'll have to try and hit some together maybe!