[plymmer]

I took a ride to Mississippi Lake and Bear Mountain Saturday. Statistical data here: Mississippi Lake Bear Mt Ride-10-15-11 - MTBGuru: mashing up GPS data, photos and maps to share mountain biking, road bike, hiking and other outdoor experiences

While I was at the Cross Canyon Wall, I cleared the large branch on the left side making a line away from the carved crevice.

This is the tree I moved​

 

[ElHombre]

Excellent!
But the important questions are:
Did you clean the Wall?
Did you clean Bear Mountain?

 

[plymmer]

Well...

Excellent!
But the important questions are:
Did you clean the Wall?
Did you clean Bear Mountain?

Neither. I went pretty far on the wall but there is a considerable steep bit that I wasn't able to clean. Maybe next time. I have cleaned it in the past.

I rode up to Bear Mountain via Bear Spring Road therefore going up the "easy" way. The ride downhill was tremendously fast and quite nice after the grading. Not sure that the rain really helped on Bear Mountain but I was going fast so...

Roy.

 

[ratpick]

Oh glorious day! Nice job Plymmer..

 

[Skyline35]

This thread needs "before" photos

photo ratpick

///Charlie

 

[ancient rascal]

Wow...long and steep. For a single hill that looks worse than anything at Sierra Azul. :yikes: Thanks for the pics !

 

[ratpick]

Wow...long and steep. For a single hill that looks worse than anything at Sierra Azul. :yikes: Thanks for the pics !

There are but a handful of riders known to have successfully climbed it. I'm going to get so drunk in celebration when (if) my day comes!

 

[Jack Burns]

Wooohooo Plymmer!

It does look like a good line there on the left.

Excellent.

This Saturday afternoon I'll be working on the bottom switchback of the Cougar Trail. In the morning I'll be working on the Yerba Buena Trail. I'll bet no one here has ridden that.

 

[plymmer]

Good Herb?

It was pretty easy once I started. Seems the pine was rotting pretty well.

The thing about that trail is you are only seeing the 1st part in the pictures. There are two more steep sections that are full of crevices and loose rock. I cleaned it before the rain last year which really etched it making it even tougher to get a line. Definitely tougher than the Mahoney wall which seems like a decent comparison.

Yerba Buena Trail? I'm intrigued. Tell me more.

Roy.