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Today I rode with Warp, Tigerdog and friends to Chiluca. Actually, Warp phoned me yesterday at night, and I was like this close to saying nay, but finally he convinced me. I was pretty glad he did convince me of riding. I was going to do Ajusco at a later hour (maybe 10 or 11 am), but I just didn't know how I agreed on a 8:00 timeline... I put the bike and lot's of stuff in my car yesterday so I didn't had to rush today. Well, I picked up Tiger at 8:00 at home and we drove to Chiluca. Everybody got to the trailhead early, so it was nice starting out at the appointed time (or pretty close, I didn't saw the time we actually started riding).
I thought that today was going to be cold, so I went with pants and a long sleeve jersey, wich may have looked cool, but I was like melting in there, not a single cloud in sight and the sun merrily shining on poor 'ol me. Anyway, I think I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the ride.
Well, we started riding, with me at the back (as usual), I'll have to work harder to keep up with this guys. I guess I've been saying this since I met them, hehehe. Well, we started going down the road to Colosio, and then we went to 'Tierra Roja', or Red Soil. This is a very nice downhill section, even though it has some places that it's hard or imposible to ride (for me at least). We then continued following the fireroad, crossed the Xinte river, and started singletracking. I really liked that section, but I'm not sure everyone else did. The deal here is that a lot of dirt bikes ride through here and the trails are wasted, but I think it's nice anyway. I saw the place where my bike went submarine a while ago, and yep, there is this big channel that the mud hide.
Well, we just rode until we got to Espiritu Santo. This trail I've done lot's of time. We spent like 30 or 40 minutes hanging around there, listening to mexican music and having beer, which was pretty nice.
Now, usually I return from Espiritu Santo to the trailhead the same way I've gone up, but this time Oscar lead us through another section. Wow! It was first some section of double track, until, just in the middle of what seemed nowhere Oscar lead us out of the road through an amazing singletrack with lots of leaves, trees that was incredibly fun riding through here. Then we got to 'La Luna' or 'The Moon', wich are a formation of rocks that for some biker a long, long time ago decided it reminded him of the moon, hence the name. It's a pretty nice view from there.
Then we sort of backtracked, to get to another singletrack that was technical, and very fun. I think I learned a lot on this downhill section.
Anyway, after a fun ride down, we had to pay our dues and had to climb, climb, climb up (sometimes we had to push our bikes). This day I was pretty tired, so I didn't impress myself with my physical condition, but I think it was a pretty nice day, I learned a lot of different trails I've never been to.
I thought that today was going to be cold, so I went with pants and a long sleeve jersey, wich may have looked cool, but I was like melting in there, not a single cloud in sight and the sun merrily shining on poor 'ol me. Anyway, I think I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the ride.
Well, we started riding, with me at the back (as usual), I'll have to work harder to keep up with this guys. I guess I've been saying this since I met them, hehehe. Well, we started going down the road to Colosio, and then we went to 'Tierra Roja', or Red Soil. This is a very nice downhill section, even though it has some places that it's hard or imposible to ride (for me at least). We then continued following the fireroad, crossed the Xinte river, and started singletracking. I really liked that section, but I'm not sure everyone else did. The deal here is that a lot of dirt bikes ride through here and the trails are wasted, but I think it's nice anyway. I saw the place where my bike went submarine a while ago, and yep, there is this big channel that the mud hide.
Well, we just rode until we got to Espiritu Santo. This trail I've done lot's of time. We spent like 30 or 40 minutes hanging around there, listening to mexican music and having beer, which was pretty nice.
Now, usually I return from Espiritu Santo to the trailhead the same way I've gone up, but this time Oscar lead us through another section. Wow! It was first some section of double track, until, just in the middle of what seemed nowhere Oscar lead us out of the road through an amazing singletrack with lots of leaves, trees that was incredibly fun riding through here. Then we got to 'La Luna' or 'The Moon', wich are a formation of rocks that for some biker a long, long time ago decided it reminded him of the moon, hence the name. It's a pretty nice view from there.
Then we sort of backtracked, to get to another singletrack that was technical, and very fun. I think I learned a lot on this downhill section.
Anyway, after a fun ride down, we had to pay our dues and had to climb, climb, climb up (sometimes we had to push our bikes). This day I was pretty tired, so I didn't impress myself with my physical condition, but I think it was a pretty nice day, I learned a lot of different trails I've never been to.
Thanks for the pics...
