Eagle Mountain

On short notice I met Chad Yates out in Eagle Mountain for a little ride yesterday.  More of a recon mission than anything to see what the trail conditions were like.   We started at the Bike Park and headed up over the hill into the dry-farm.  Things were plenty dry and rideable with nothing particularly interesting until we crested the ridge just north of the Flintstone trail, and spotted this:

There was more camo than a Toby Keith concert and more than one dirty looked pointed our way.  Luckily, Skippy in the orange vest informed us that there was to be a paintball competition starting soon and we had better get out of the way.  We assured him we’d be off the ridge within twenty minutes and he “allowed” us to proceed.  As we rode away I’m pretty sure I heard somebody mention something about a purty mouth.

We made it safely over to the top of the Flintstone trail and started down.  It seems we as mountain bikers are making friends all over.  A plastic sign asking equestrians to respect the work that has gone into the trails and stay off them had been added to by somebody who’s favorite word rhymes with truck.  There has been a lot of work going on out there and the trails are in great shape.

Lots of berms, and a few new features.  The only thing missing on this trail continues to be a viable route back to the top.  The options are still push your bike back up, or cruise cul-de-sacs back to the bike park.

There is at least one killer new feature out there, behold…..

What can only be described as a gi-gumbous teeter-totter.  To give you and idea of it’s size, here’s Chad rallying it.

Trust me, we wouldn’t go to the trouble of setting up shots that just made it look, like we rolled it.( But there might be an identical set of shots featuring me.)