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jelly.

I was on a project for work out there...fuck, 22 years ago?...coming home every other weekend.  I flew my old Bontrager 26" hardtail and a skateboard out there, storing them in my hijacked cubical.  I'd skate the park in Sunnyvale every morning before work and explore trails in the evenings.  easiest ones to get to were above Saratoga, off Skyline Blvd.  flowy good times.

I remember I got one of those big hard cases for the bike and all my tools.  SW baggage handler in San Jose who brought it in from the plane just let it fall with a boom in the claim area, like "fuck you and your bike".  lol

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Saratoga/Skyline has been recommend but I haven't hit it yet.  Camp Tamarancho in Fairfax has been my favorite so far.  10 mile loop, 1000ish' of climbing (every damn trail out here has 1000' minimum).  Good mix of forest switchbacks, some chunk, some hilltop views, and a fun flow trail on the way back down.  Mountain Bike Hall of Fame is also there but was closed the day I rode it.  Need to go back.

Here's Flow and Braille in the Soquel Demonstration Forest near Santa Cruz from a couple days ago.  Flow is incredible.  3 and half miles down.  I had to take breaks. Lots of holes in the berms but I don't rail them hard enough for it to matter too much.  Braille would have been a lot more fun for me on a second or third run and on more bike than I have out there.  But it's 1000' climb to get back to the top so it was one and done for me that day.  I also took the B-line around about half the features on Braille.  I was nearly 2 hours in and already cooked.  Didn't have the energy to stop and scout everything.  If it didn't look clean at first glance I skipped it.

Some day I will learn exactly how much further upward I need to be pointing the camera on the chest mount.  It's always looking way lower than I think it is. 

 

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Kinda forgot this thread. We went up to Lake Superior last month and I got 4 days of riding between Duluth, Bayfield WI, and Hayward WI. 3 days on the incredible Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Trails.

Wet summer and a toddler have limited my riding. Heading up to northern MN over Labor Day for one last hurrah before harvest.

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