This time of year is really nice. The flowers are starting to bloom, grass is turning green, the weather is nice and leaves are coming out. However, it is also the time when we really start getting excited (or overly eager) to bike in the higher elevations and ride the trails we love.
Saturdays ride, just got us a little more excited to ride those types of trails and gave us a taste of how great the summer is going to be.
We joined up with Roman on this ride and started at Mt. Timpanogas park, went up the race course past the altar. With trails and weather like this.....
We joined up with Roman on this ride and started at Mt. Timpanogas park, went up the race course past the altar. With trails and weather like this.....
We HAD to keep riding. We climbed for about 5-6 miles and gained about 3000' of elevation and this is what it looked like
The view was nice and the trail was fun, but from the non-existent leaves on the trees means the higher elevations are still not quite ready. We arrived at our desired destination and decided to head down. This is where the fun really started.
The dirt was soft offering great traction, but not too soft we could still get some speed. There were lots of tight turns, open turns, fast flowy sections, rocky sections and just a blast coming down. For riding like this, we usually have to wait until much later in the year. It was so rad, we had to get some pictures.
Generally, Gage is the photographer because, for some reason, my timing and coordination skills can't match up to catch some good shots, but I finally hit the button at the right time.... or maybe it was just the continuous shot option that got it.... either way, we got some sweet pics on some nice turns.
Gage was able to capture a close up shot on one of the best non-bike specific turns I have ridden. Super smooth, no brakes, and tacky ground made for some fun fast grippy turns. This is one of those times my little girl says it best...BRAAAAP!
After about 15 miles of awesome singletrack and some perfect turns, we arrived back at the car happy, but excited for more riding.
It was a good day.
provo canyon race course to top of dry creek
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I didnt know you two boys used words like 'flowy'. I thought that was only used to describe women's dresses.
ReplyDeleteFlow: Noun ; The action or fact of moving along in a steady, continuous stream
ReplyDeleteYes, trails with flow are sweet. BRAAAAP!!! It was Brown pow!!
Ganch, we use flow to describe many things.. women's dresses, trails, Gavin's back hair.... it has many different uses:)
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